**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🤖 OpenAI Collaborations and Initiatives
OpenAI partners with SoftBank, Oracle, and LogicMonitor to expand data centers and enhance AI-powered operations.

OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project

📜 Trump’s AI Policies and Influence
Trump pushes for US AI dominance with fewer regulations and receives lobbying from AI industry leaders.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-21/trump-pushes-to-make-us-an-ai-superpower-with-fewer-guardrails

🔍 AI in Government and Security
The UK plans a digital ID wallet with OpenAI’s chatbot, and TrojAI joins Microsoft’s Pegasus Program to enhance AI security.

UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI

🚀 AI Innovations and Tools
Perplexity launches Sonar API for AI search, while Omada partners with Microsoft to improve identity security using AI.

Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search

📊 AI and Fintech Trends
Funding to fintechs continues to decline, while AI-driven demand for cloud services grows in Europe.

Funding to fintechs continues to decline, but at a slower pace

📦 AI’s Impact on Gig Economy
Couriers demand transparency from algorithm-driven platforms that control their work and pay.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/21/its-a-nightmare-couriers-mystified-by-the-algorithms-that-control-their-jobs

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