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These are the daily tech headlines for Monday, January 26, 2026. I'm Sarah Lane. Apple introduced the AirTag 2 with longer range, better precision and a louder speaker. The tracker uses a new second gen Ultra wideband chip that increases precision finding by up to 50% and extends Bluetooth range. It now works for wrist based finding on newer Apple Watch models. Apple says it also added privacy and anti tracking protections. Price stays at $29 or $99 for a four pack. Pre orders are open with shipments set for later this week the European Commission opened a Digital Services act investigation into X over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes of real people. This follows a similar probe by UK regulator Ofcom. The EC says X could face fines of up to 6% of global revenue and that it may impose interim measures in if changes aren't made. In other EC news, the Commission also designated WhatsApp as a very large online platform under the Digital Services act, making it the first messaging service subject to the EU's strictest online governance rules. This applies to WhatsApp's public channels, requiring reporting on how WhatsApp mitigates systemic risks to children and democratic processes. With the first report needing to happen within four months, non compliance would trigger investigations and finds up to 6% of global revenue. Microsoft unveiled its new Maya 200 AI chip built on TSMC's 3 nanometer process and claiming three times the FP4 performance of Amazon's latest Trainium and stronger FP8 numbers than Google's newest TPU. Microsoft says Maya 200 will run on GPT 5.2 and and other large models with more than 1 billion transistors and 30% better performance per dollar than the company's current offerings. The chip is rolling out to Microsoft data centers now with early access for researchers, open source contributors and developers. Nvidia unveiled three new Earth 2 AI weather models, medium Range Nowcasting and global data Assimilation. Nvidia says Medium range beats Google's DeepMind Gencast on more than 70 variables and can forecast up to 15 days out. Nowcasting targets zero through six hour storm impacts using geostationary satellite data and global data assimilation compresses data prep work that historically consumed half of traditional supercomputing loads. Nvidia says the models increase access to high quality forecasting for governments and and industries. Some more Apple news now. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple will preview a Gemini powered Siri update in February through an iOS 26.4 beta with a possible event to show off new features. The full overhaul, codenamed Campos, is still slated for iOS27 and WWDC in June, bringing a rebuilt conversational UI running on a new Apple foundation model that Gurman says will be competitive with Gemini 3. Apple is also testing AI updates for Safari and Core apps, and continues work on a HomePod style smart display after repeated Siri delays. TikTok's first weekend under new US ownership saw outages tied to a power failure at a U.S. data center. The rollout was also tied to some conspiracies online based on low to no view counts and new terms enabling more granular data collection, including precise location and stored AI interactions. As of this recording, the service is mostly restored. ProPublica sources say the US administration is preparing to use Google's Gemini to draft federal transportation regulations, using the Department of Transportation as a test bed for AI generated rulemaking. DOT's general counsel reportedly described the strategy as prioritizing speed and volume, saying that regulations only need to be good enough while it tries to compress drafting timelines from months to roughly 30 days. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to DailyTech News Show.com that's where you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.