🚀 Welcome to AI Unraveled (Weekly Rundown: Jan 12th – 18th, 2026): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.

This week, the battle lines were drawn. OpenAI rejected a partnership with Apple to build its own hardware, leaving Apple to officially partner with Google Gemini for the next-gen Siri. Meanwhile, Elon Musk escalated his legal war with OpenAI to the tune of $134 billion, and Anthropic launched a tool that lets anyone "cowork" with an autonomous agent.

Strategic Pillars & Key Topics:

📱 The Hardware & Platform Wars

• OpenAI vs. Apple: OpenAI turned down a deal to power Apple's AI to focus on its own hardware ambitions. Consequently, Apple chose Google Gemini to powe ...