Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning  —  As AI races into classrooms worldwide, Google is finding that the toughest lessons on how the tech can actually scale are emerging …

Reuters:
Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9M shares at ~$3.61 each; trading expected to start February 10  —  Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Axera Semiconductor is aiming to raise HK$2.96 billion ($379.2 million) …

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AGI, next breakthroughs like continual learning, his vision for AI glasses, whether AI progress is slowing, more  —  The leader of Google's AI program weighs in on the cutting edge of AI research, Google's plans to put the technology in its products …

Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg:
Filing: Chinese chip designer Montage plans to raise up to ~$902M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$13.69, and expects trading to start February 9  —  Chinese chip designer Montage Technology Co. is seeking to raise as much as HK$7 billion ($902 million) from its Hong Kong listing …

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made using Google DeepMind's AI tools and human voice actors  —  Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky used AI to travel back in time 250 years ago to the American Revolution.  But he tapped real-life human actors …