Daily Robot News

January 14, 2026

Summary

Tech Giants & AI

Tesla drops $8K FSD purchase for subscription-only after February 14, Apple sidelines ChatGPT with expanded Google partnership, Gemini launches Personal Intelligence mode

Hardware Shortages

Apple scrambles over glass cloth shortage affecting chips, Asus warns RAM shortage will spike laptop prices, SK Hynix invests $13B in HBM plant

Space & Science

China applies for 200K satellite constellation, SpaceX Crew-11 completes first ISS medical evacuation, scientists sequence 14,400-year-old woolly rhino genome

In Other News

Verizon suffers major nationwide outage, UK offshore wind beats gas by 40%, gut microbes can make people drunk without alcohol

Scientists Cracked That No-Booze Drunk Mystery

Pentagon's giving Elon's chatbot ACCESS to military secrets and everyone's freaking out

Tesla dropping the $8,000 upfront price, making their robot driving SUBSCRIPTION-ONLY

China wants to launch 200,000 SATELLITES and nobody knows what they're really for

X shuts down Grok's creepy clothes-removing feature after people got mad

Verizon just crashed nationwide - your phone showing SOS isn't broken

Astronauts rushed home from space station for medical emergency

People fixing AI screwups all day

New report warns that computer brains in classrooms are actually hurting kids more than helping them learn

GRAVITY MIGHT BE WRONG

Puppy saved history

Scientists figure out why memory suddenly tanks

Study says social media doesn't hurt teens

SpaceX gives free internet to Iranian protesters after their government cuts them off

100 mystery signals checked for aliens

Scientists figure out why your brain keeps putting off that one annoying task

Mercedes kills autopilot

Google's computer brain now remembers stuff about your actual life

These new headphones can read your thoughts and actually help you focus

Hyundai shows off worker robots

Math solved

Apple and Google team up, ditch ChatGPT

Trump puts new rules on selling computer chips to China, making them wait longer than everyone else

Computer memory shortage about to make your gadgets way more expensive

Apple running short on chips

Britain's wind farms just beat gas prices by 40% in biggest energy auction ever

Meta building massive power plants for their computers

MIT builds stacked chips that slash AI energy waste

Korean memory chip company spending 13 billion dollars on huge new factory for computer brain memory

China's moon clock

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