January 2026

There were 3 posts published in January 2026 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#672

  • Under the Hood: Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)
  • Joint statement from Google and Apple…Deal Could Be Worth $5 Billion
  • SpaceX to lower orbits of some Starlink satellites…moving satellites currently operating at an altitude of about 550 kilometers to 480 kilometers.
  • China just ‘months’ behind U.S. AI models, Google DeepMind CEO says
  • AI startup Replit launches feature to vibe code mobile apps
  • More Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join OpenAI
  • TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models
  • Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse (WSJ)
  • Cursor, which was founded by four MIT graduates who are still in their mid-20s, raised $2.3 billion in its third funding round this year (WSJ)
  • OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs
  • AI video startup, Higgsfield, founded by ex-Snap exec, lands $1.3B valuation
  • NASA’s first medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown
  • 9 Tips for Building Apps to Withstand AI-Driven Bot Attacks
  • Amazon is making a Fallout Shelter competition reality TV show
  • Raspberry Pi’s new add-on board has 8GB of RAM for running gen AI models
  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new “top-level” initiative called Meta Compute
  • AI Models Graph by Epoch.ai
  • The rise of industrial software
  • The Tiniest Durable Agent
  • The Impact of AI Agents on Higher Education

Weekly#671

  • Scott Galloway 2026 Predictions
  • Fragments: January 8
  • How AI is transforming work at Anthropic
  • How Ralph Wiggum went from ‘The Simpsons’ to the biggest name in AI right now
  • Gmail gets Gemini, but falls short of true agentic AI
  • Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster…Meta said the projects should add 6.6 gigawatts of power by 2035.
  • OpenAI, SoftBank invest $1 billion in SB Energy as Stargate buildout expands
  • FCC approves SpaceX plan to deploy an additional 7,500 Starlink satellites, bringing the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide
  • Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion for five new growth funds
  • AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions
  • Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026
  • Cyber-enabled blackout
  • Engadget CES Summary
  • The growing importance of social skills in the labor market (2017 HBR)
  • ChatGPT unveils new health tool for doctors
  • OpenAI to acquire the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo
  • Microsoft turns Copilot chats into a checkout lane
  • Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20 billion from investors including Nvidia, Cisco, and Fidelity
  • Stablecoins accounted for an estimated $46 trillion in transaction volume last year, more than 20x PayPal’s volume
  • The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow
  • xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi
  • The Product Model at Google
  • The golden age of vaccine development
  • Copper in the Age of AI

Weekly#670

  • Semafor Tech’s predictions for 2026
  • 2025: The year in LLMs
  • Meta’s deal for Manus AI could be worth $2.5 billion
  • Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (WSJ)
  • Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse works enter the public domain in 2026
  • Nvidia deal shows why inference is AI’s next battleground…”…Why it matters: Groq’s language processing unit (LPU) chips power real-time chatbot queries — as opposed to model training — potentially giving Nvidia an edge in the AI race…”
  • AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
  • Capital in the 22nd Century
  • Neuralink plans ‘high-volume’ brain implant production by 2026
  • Hasbro’s Secret Weapon for Training Its Next Leaders: A Board Game (WSJ)
  • UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
  • Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia, sending the 5G equipment maker’s shares up 22%
  • No iPhone 18 Launch This Year, Reports Suggest
  • IDC estimates Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner Luxshare stopped Vision Pro production in 2025 after selling 390,000 units in 2024
  • Australian pension giant grows bearish on stocks over AI
  • Advanced Prompt Engineering: Chain of Thought (CoT)
  • Best Prompt Engineering Resources (2026 Edition)
  • Tesla Car Sales Dropped 9% in 2025, Falling Behind China’s BYD (NYTimes)
  • France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
  • Some of your cells are not genetically yours
  • Poor sleep health is associated with older brain age: the role of systemic inflammation
  • Transformers v5: Simple model definitions powering the AI ecosystem
  • “..Microsoft 365’s AI assistant, Copilot, surpassed 150mn monthly active users, the company told investors in October. But this remains short of the around 650mn users reported by Google for its Gemini chatbot and the 800mn by OpenAI for ChatGPT… (FT)”