☕️ Blackwell in The US, Adobe AI Foundry & OpenEvidence's $200M Round

Nvidia and TSMC tout their first “made in the USA” Blackwell wafer, Adobe debuts a service to help businesses create on-brand AI models, and OpenEvidence raises fresh capital to fuel its AI search engine for doctors.

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Nvidia and TSMC announce their first US-made Blackwell chip wafer

Nvidia and TSMC pass a major milestone as the pair unveiled their first US-made wafer for Nvidia’s most advanced enterprise AI chips: Blackwell. The announcement was made at TSMC’s new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang present on site, as the companies push to “re-shore critical chip production in the US,” as announced in a joint statement. Although the US-made wafer does mean progress, complete US chip independence remains a distant goal.

Adobe launches a foundry service to help businesses build custom AI models

On Monday, Adobe launched the Adobe AI Foundry, a new service that will work with businesses to help them build custom generative AI models. The foundry’s custom models are tailor-made around a company’s branding and IP, and can generate anything from text, to images, to fully-fledged 3D scenes, all powered by Adobe’s Firefly line of models. Adobe executive Hannah Elsakr claims that the custom models will help companies create better, on-brand advertising, without replacing human creatives. Unlike Adobe’s usual offerings, the Adobe AI Foundry’s pricing is based on usage, not by seat.

OpenEvidence’s AI medical search engine raises $200 million at a $6 billion valuation

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, OpenEvidence, the developers of an AI-powered medical search engine, are getting ready to announce a successful fundraiser of $200 million at a valuation of $6 billion. The startup’s search engine leverages medical journals like JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine to help users, especially doctors and nurses, quickly get answers to existing medical knowledge to help treat patients. Founded in 2022, OpenEvidence has seen explosive growth and continuous investor interest, coming off the back of a $210 million round just three months ago.

Meta revamps its API policy to ban general-purpose AI chatbots from WhatsApp

Starting January 15, 2026, Meta is banning third-party chatbots from WhatsApp’s Business API, as detailed in an update to its API policy pushed late last week. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the move, with the company stating that the API was designed for business-to-customer use, not disturbing chatbots, and claimed higher loads on its system, along with unbillable message volumes. Businesses using AI for customer support, for example, will remain unaffected, but the shift in policy does affect the likes of OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, effectively leaving Meta’s own Meta AI as the only available chatbot on the platform.

Anthropic bets on life sciences with a new AI offering for health researchers

Claude for Life Sciences is Anthropic’s first launch into the life sciences sector, as it looks to bring AI to the hands of prospecting researchers, announced the company in a recent blog post. The new offering comes with Anthropic’s connectors to a variety of scientific tools commonly used in labs, with the goal of ultimately helping researchers all throughout the discovery process, from developing hypotheses to analyzing research data. Claude for Life Sciences comes just months after Anthropic hired its now-head of biology and life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, as well as the recent debut of Claude Sonnet 4.5.

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Nvidia’s Share in China Plummets to Zero (4-min read)

From owning nearly 95% of the Chinese AI chip market share to effectively 0%, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reveals that the company is now “100% out,” claiming that the US cost Nvidia one of the largest markets in the world - how did all this happen in just a few months?

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