# AI News Digest - 2026-01-21

1. ARIA funded 12 projects developing "AI scientists" that could design and run laboratory experiments, awarding about £500,000 to each team for nine months and doubling its intended allocation because of the volume and quality of submissions.

2. MIT Technology Review reported that enterprises were facing an era of "agentic chaos" as autonomous AI agents proliferated and concluded that reliable deployment required unified data foundations, robust governance, and integrated models and tools.

3. Ukraine planned to share nearly four years of drone footage and combat data with allies to support AI training, positioning battlefield intelligence as strategic leverage for military AI development.

4. Google DeepMind and Anthropic chief executives Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei said they expected AI to affect entry-level jobs and internships in 2026 and reported early signs of AI-driven job losses within their organizations.

# References

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1131462/the-uk-government-is-backing-ai-scientists-that-can-run-their-own-experiments/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1131462/the-uk-government-is-backing-ai-scientists-that-can-run-their-own-experiments/)

[The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1131462/the-uk-government-is-backing-ai-scientists-that-can-run-their-own-experiments/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1130911/the-era-of-agentic-chaos-and-how-data-will-save-us/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1130911/the-era-of-agentic-chaos-and-how-data-will-save-us/)

[The era of agentic chaos and how data will save us](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1130911/the-era-of-agentic-chaos-and-how-data-will-save-us/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/four-years-of-war-millions-of-hours-of-drone-footage-ukraine-shares-data-for-ai-training/](https://the-decoder.com/four-years-of-war-millions-of-hours-of-drone-footage-ukraine-shares-data-for-ai-training/)

[Four years of war, millions of hours of drone footage: Ukraine shares data for AI training](https://the-decoder.com/four-years-of-war-millions-of-hours-of-drone-footage-ukraine-shares-data-for-ai-training/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-and-anthropic-ceos-expect-ai-to-hit-entry-level-jobs-and-internships-in-2026/](https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-and-anthropic-ceos-expect-ai-to-hit-entry-level-jobs-and-internships-in-2026/)

[Deepmind and Anthropic CEOs expect AI to hit entry-level jobs and internships in 2026](https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-and-anthropic-ceos-expect-ai-to-hit-entry-level-jobs-and-internships-in-2026/)

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