These are the daily tech headlines for Thursday, January 22, 2026. I'm Rob Dunwood. Apple is reportedly planning a significant overhaul of its Siri Smart Assistant, codenamed Campus, transforming it into a chatgpt like chatbot, capable of handling both voice and text inputs. This move, expected to be revealed at WWDC in June, is seen as a response to the success of competitor AI chatbots with potential threats from OpenAI entering the hardware acknowledging its late start in the AI race, Apple has reversed earlier stances and confirmed a deal to use Google's Gemini as its AI partner. After exploring various options, a bipartisan House bill was approved to allow Congress to review and potentially block the White House administration's authorization for Nvidia to sell its H200AI chips to China. The legislation, which mandates notifying Congress before advanced AI chip sales to adversaries, also includes a two year ban on selling Nvidia's advanced Blackwell chips to China. This measure, supported by lawmakers citing national security and US Innovation concerns, counters the White House's current policy to ease export controls, which argues that sales strengthen American leadership. Anthropic has published a revised 80 page version of Claude's constitution detailing the ethical principles and operational context for his chatbot and reinforcing the company's constitutional AI approach. Released to coincide with CEO Dario Omodi's appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the current document aims to position and as an ethical competitor. It outlines four core values for being broadly safe, broadly ethical, compliant with guidelines, and genuinely helpful. It addresses sensitive issues like avoiding harmful conversations, directing users to emergency services for mental health issues, and even speculating on the chatbot's moral status. Ubisoft announced a major reset, canceling six video games, including the Prince of the Sands of time remake, closing two studios and delaying seven other titles. This move, which caused a 33% drop in shares, is intended to return the company to sustainable growth. Analysts suggest A strategy which includes canceling three new IPs, aims to mitigate risk by concentrating on established franchises like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry rather than new intellectual property. To counter the rising development costs and market competition, the French developer will now focus on open world adventure and live service games. Microsoft has enabled the Xbox app on all arm based Windows 11 PCs following a December 2025 update to the Prism emulator that critical AVX and AVX2 support for efficient game performance. This expansion, coinciding with the Rise of Copilot PCs using Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, allows Windows on ARM users to buy, download and stream PC games with over 85% of the game pass catalog now functional. Crucially, Windows on ARM supports for anti cheat software like Easyanti Cheat gives an advantage over platforms like SteamOS for accessing online multiplayer games. This signals a major push for the platform and suggests a potential arm based Windows 11 handheld device. Announcement is in in IT developer Siqi Chen created Humanizer, a custom skin for Anthropics Claw to make AI generated text sound more human. The tool works by using a Wikipedia guide on detecting AI content, which flags things like promotional language and vague attributions to help Claude remove those telltale signs. This development highlights the escalating competition between AI generation and detection, a trend also seen with OpenAI addressing ChatGPT's stylistic habits. Alphabet's Waymo has launched its Robo taxi service in Miami, making it the sixth US market and initiating a major 2026 expansion plan, extending its lead over rivals like Tesla and zoox. The initial 60 square mile service area following a 2025 testing phase is expected to expand to the Miami International airport, with nearly 10,000 residents already signed up. Despite safety concerns in cities like San Francisco, Waymo is aggressively expanding to Dallas, Denver and Washington in 2026, building 1 million trips served in 2025. Microsoft is updating the Notepad and Paint apps for Windows 11 insiders with a new AI feature set. Notepad version 1125 12.10.0 now offers faster AI previews for write, rewrite and summarize and adds new markdown syntax for formatting, both requiring a syntax account sign in paint version 11.25121910 introduces an AI driven coloring book feature that generates coloring pages from text only on Copilot PCs and requiring Microsoft account authentication alongside new fill tolerance sliders for the Fill tool. And Finally, Nintendo concluded 2025 with a strong performance in the key US market, according to market tracker Surkana, with its flagship Switch 2 console ending both December and the full year as the best selling video game hardware in the us. This helped offset declines among rivals to lift industry wide hardware spending by 9% for the year, despite a plunge in spending in November when tariffs and surging component costs push up console prices and consumers held off on purchases. 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