Apple picked up nine nominations across drama, comedy, and children’s categories, with Pluribusleading the pack as its most-nominated series. See the nominees below.

Pluribus keeps raking in nominations

Today, Apple TV received a total of nine nominations for the WGA Awards, including Drama Series for Pluribus, where it will be up against The White Lotus, Andor, The Pitt, and Apple TV’s own Severance.

The Studio got a nod in the Comedy Series category, going up against Abbott Elementary, The Chair Company, Hacks, and The Rehearsal.

Yahoo has announced a new AI-powered ”answer engine”, dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic’s Claude.

The company says Scout ”synthesizes” info from the web, as well as Yahoo’s own data and content when constructing responses to user’s natural-language search queries. Yahoo says the interface will include interactive digital media, structured lists and tables and visible source links aimed at making answers easier to verify. (Disclosure: Yahoo is the parent company of Engadget.)

If you’re seeing a lot of photos of stacks of Mac mini machines filling the internet, that’s been sparked by the development of Clawdbot by Peter Steinberger. It’s an open-source project that allows you to run your own personal AI assistant, and multiple M4 Mac minis seem to be the hardware of choice.

It’s the very definition of a nerdy project, and the memes doing the rounds very much reflect this – though it seems not everybody is amused …

26 January 2026 – Today, the European Commission (EC) opened a formal investigation into Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into X, under the Digital Service Act (DSA) for allowing users to easily create and disseminate fake sexualised and nude pictures based on real people’s photographs without their consent.

The Commission states that X may have failed to assess and mitigate the systemic risks posed by its platform, including the dissemination of illegal content with “negative effects in relation to gender-based violence, and serious negative consequences to physical and mental well-being”.

EDRi very much welcomes the EC decision, albeit a late one, as a necessary first step to address the serious and systemic harms caused by Grok. X’s AI chatbot was put on the market and integrated into the platform without a meaningful risk assessment or adequate safeguards, despite the clear obligations imposed on X by the DSA.

Pornhub has announced it will restrict access to its website in the UK, blaming the tougher age checks which have been introduced for explicit sites.

From 2 February, only people who have previously made a Pornhub account will be able to access its content.

The company says it’s a result of what it calls the ”failure” of Online Safety Act (OSA) requirements for some sites to use age verification to stop children seeing pornography online.

In October, Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, said the law change had caused traffic to the website to fall by 77%.

Jon Stewart cannot believe his fucking ears. You’ll have to forgive the swear word — there were a lot of them on Monday’s Daily Show.

Stewart, like his fellow late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, tackled the latest miserable news out of Minneapolis: the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE agents. Pretti, who brought a firearm and extra clips to protest the ongoing ICE presence, attempted to intervene when an agent shoved a woman to the ground. Pretti, an ICU nurse, was disarmed and shot to death by agents.