AI NEWS
- Factory Unveils Framework to Test How AI Coding Agents Hold Up Under Context Compression
- Context-Bench: Measuring AI models’ context engineering proficiencyA New AI Benchmark Tests What Mod
- The HackerNoon Newsletter: Should You Trust Your VPN Location? (1/4/2026)
- OpenAI’s new audio device aims to reduce screen time soon
- AI threatens 200,000 banking jobs in Europe
- Grok chatbot’s safety fails, releases explicit images of minors
- Scientists Discover One of the World’s Oldest Cremations
- Leftwing militants claim responsibility for arson attack on Berlin power grid
- French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes
- The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI Construct
- Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Former Top AI Scientist Reveals Exactly Why He Quit
- LoveOn Chatbot Review: Pricing Options and Functional Scope
- Sweetr Chatbot Access, Pricing, and Feature Overview
- The 5 Claude Skills Every Digital Product Creator Needs
- World ‘may not have time’ to prepare for AI safety risks, says leading researcher
- AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation
- AI’s reckoning with reality represents a growing economic risk for 2026
- Subtle releases ear buds with its noise cancelation models
- NYU professor fights AI cheating with AI-powered oral exams that cost 42 cents per student
- Anthropic President Daniela Amodei says "the exponential continues until it doesn't"
- Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
- The "curse of knowledge" means smarter AI models don't understand where human learners struggle
- Local resistance blocks $98 billion in AI data center projects across eleven US states
AI RESEARCH
- LoRA and QLoRA: Fine-Tune Billion-Parameter Models on Your Laptop
- Grounding Qwen3-VL Detection with SAM2
- No One Is Talking About These 5 Software Development Fields AI Will Replace by 2026
- DecEx-RAG: A Paradigm Shift from Outcome to Process in Agentic RAG
- Why Everyone is Talking about Google Antigravity: The Era of Agentic AI Coding
- From Perceptrons to Sigmoid Superstars: Building Smarter Neural Networks
- Why Your LLM Training Data is Not Production-Ready (And This is The Exact Toolkit That Trained…
- Building Reliable Machine Learning Systems for Heart Disease Prediction
- DuckDB's WebAssembly Client Allows Querying Iceberg Datasets in the Browser
- TTS LATENCY JUST DIED: This One Generates Perfect Speech in ONE STEP (10X Faster Than ElevenLabs)
- The Sequence Radar #783: Softbank, DeepSeek, MiniMax and The Sequence 2026
- Ship Features 5x Faster- The Complete Claude Code Development Toolkit
- Top 10 AI Wins and Fails from 2025 You Probably Missed
- Inference Is the New Training
- Top AI Tools of 2025: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to the Best AI Apps
- AI Software in Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Health Applications
- LLM & AI Agent Applications with LangChain and LangGraph — Part 22: Building a RAG Chatbot in…
- 4 Metrics That Quietly Decide Whether Your RAG System Works in Production
- The Missing Piece of Your AI Strategy: Distribution
- Mastering Agentic RAG: 3 Architecture Patterns for Production-Grade AI System (With Examples)
- This is How Google Finally Fixed AI Images: The Secret Sauce Behind “Nano Banana”
CLOUD BUSINESS
- This adorable bladeless fan at CES 2026 is the perfect gadget for babies and toddlers
- This unassuming smart lock has a useful charging feature I've yet to see on the market
- Are our homes ready for a real-life Rosie the Robot? SwitchBot thinks so
- My favorite no-boundary-wire robot mower just got a worthy successor, and on sale soon
- New laptop? How to wipe your old Windows PC clean before getting rid of it
- Withings' new smart scale gives you its most detailed health reading yet (including hypertension risk)
- This handheld e-reader has effectively replaced my Kindle, and it's priced well
- Pebble's newest e-paper smartwatch is for enthusiasts who want the analog feel
- This multifunctional trackpad may be the most exciting PC accessory at CES (and it has a price)
- These XR glasses gave me a 170-inch screen to work with - but it's killer feature is unexpected
- This wireless HDMI adapter from Belkin lets you link devices from across the room
- Should you upgrade to a smart ceiling light? Govee has a convincing case to do it
- Why APIs Are the Missing Link for Truly Autonomous AI Agents
- Should you upgrade to a smart ceiling light? This Govee CES launch has you covered
- Plaud has unveiled a new AI wearable that I'm seriously considering replacing Otter.ai with
- OpenMediaVault, a Linux-Based Solution for Building a NAS
- This robot vacuum at CES 2026 can find lost items on your floor and alert you of them
- Xreal's new XR glasses may be the most immersive ones I've worn at CES 2026
- Linus Torvalds Gets Candid About Windows, Workflows, and AI
- How we test smartwatches at ZDNET in 2026
- Want to change your embarrassing Gmail address? Google may be working on a fix
- CES 2026 news: Live updates on TVs, smart glasses, phones, and more we've seen so far
- I compared the two best headphones from Bose and Sony right now - here's my winner
- Why I prefer this $200 Motorola phone over Google and Samsung's cheaper models
- I compared the best soundbars from Samsung and Sonos, and here's my preference
- Does it matter which HDMI port you use on your TV? Short answer: Yes
- Have a Samsung TV? I changed these 6 settings to make my old system run like new again
- 8 HDMI tricks to get the best performance from your TV - and most are free
- Samsung's popular Freestyle projector is getting several useful upgrades - and I'm tempted to buy it
CLOUD SECURITY
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- I Built a Multi-Agent AI System That Analyzes Your GitHub Like a Technical Interview Panel
- Snowflake Data Cloud: A Comprehensive Guide
- AI Storyboard Generator
- AWS Security Services: A Conversation Between Engineers
- I Built a Hybrid AI Database - Cache in Go (And It Runs Stable on My Old Dell Latitude)
- How I Taught My Agent My Design Taste
- The Complete Guide to Data Modeling: A Comprehensive Chai-Time Conversation
- Scaling API Access with Azure API Management: From Manual to Self-Service
- AI Agents: Mastering 3 Essential Patterns (Reflexive). Part 3 of 3
- 📱 WebSockets Explained Like You're 5
- kubernetes project #1
- Agentes de IA: Dominando 3 Patrones Esenciales (Reflexive). Parte 3 de 3
- Injecting Smarts into Code with AI Sparks
- After 47 Failed Systems, I Built One That Works: The Purpose Stack
- Monetzly: Monetize Your LLM Apps with Google Ads for AI Conversations
- Writing Docs in a World Where LLMs Are the Readers
- 9 SaaS pricing traps in India that quietly inflate your bill
- Downloading Docker images where DockerHub won't work
- Llama Guard: LLM-based Input-Output Safeguard for Human-AI Conversations
- Create Natural Voiceovers & Audiobooks in Minutes: AI Text-to-Speech Made Easy, No Setup Needed
- How I Use AI to Solve OAuth (Without Losing My Mind)
- ECS vs EKS: When You DON'T Need Kubernetes - A Practical Guide to Choosing AWS Container Services
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- What Should You Learn First: Web Development, DevOps, or Web3?
- I Took a Working Terraform Project and Rebuilt It Properly (ALB + EC2 + Modules + Remote State)
- Monetzly: Boost Developer Revenue with AI Conversation Ads
- Building a Secure, Serverless Multi-Tenant RAG Chatbot with Amazon Bedrock and Lambda
- When AI Decisions Drift Away From Human Accountability, Governance Fails
- Kubernetes Deployment Guide: From Development to Production
- Docker for Production: Complete Guide to Containerizing Web Applications
- How to Deploy a SvelteKit App to Cloudflare Containers
- The Deadline That Made Me Rethink My Architecture: Building Timesheetflow with Domain Thinking
- Go: The Quiet Language of the Cloud
- I build a second brain with MCP
- The Myth of ‘Just Connect Lambda to RDS’
- SeaVerse vs Traditional AI Tools - A Developer's Honest Review (After Building 10+ Projects)
- What Your AWS and GCP Python Code Is Really Doing (I Built a VS Code Extension to Find Out)
- “Cracking the Kubernetes Interview” 🍘 Book Review
- Designing a Secure AWS Landing Zone with Control Tower (What Most Blogs Don’t Tell You)
- Docker is Overkill: Setting Up Lightweight CI/CD for Solo Devs
- Stop Coding Login Screens: A Senior Developer’s Guide to Building SaaS That Actually Ships
- Top 10 AWS Security Mistakes Beginners Must Avoid
- Building Memory for AI-Assisted Development
- The SaaS Billing Nightmare: Why Integration Is More Than Just a 'Pay' Button
- Azure Logic Apps Explained for Beginners
- Kubernetes Security Fundamentals: Building a Robust Defense
- 🚧 nextjs and strapi CI/CD, Docker, and the Mystery of the Failing API: A Real-World Debugging Story
- Why Does SOCKS5 Proxy Login Trigger Account Warnings or Failures When Switching Between Cloud and Local Access?
- 🔄_Containerized_Deployment_Performance_Optimization[20260104074225]
- Boyer–Moore Majority Voting: Why It Works, Why It Fails, and Where It Actually Belongs
- Google Already Won the AI Race. Here's Why Everyone Else Lost.
- On-chain Shopping: Bridging Generative AI and XRPL for a Frictionless Retail Future
- Grid Gaps Explained: The Secret to Perfect Web Layouts
- Define the AWS Global Infrastructure
- Is the World Ready for Another Programming Language in 2026, Now That AI Writes Code?
- Grid Align Explained: The Complete Guide to Perfect CSS Layouts (2026)
- Why "Seamless" AI is a Design Failure: The Judgment Transparency Principle (JTP)
- The Real AI Divide Inside Companies is Clarity, Not Tools
- Build a Flutter Live Streaming App Using ZEGOCLOUD (Like Chat & Video Call Apps)
- Anthropic: From Pandemic-Era Safety Concerns to a $350B AI Company
- Why Edge AI Research Needs Field Validation: Lessons from Replicating MIT CSAIL
- Complete Ollama Tutorial (2026)
- Complete Ollama Tutorial (2026) – LLMs via CLI, Cloud & Python
GENERAL US
- My 3 Favorite Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Buy Right Now - The Motley Fool
- Watch: BBC reporter tests AI anti-shoplifting tech
- From IVF to AI: California ushers in a wave of far-reaching laws - Politico
- Perplexity CEO Says On-Device AI Threatens Data Centers As Industry Faces '$10 Trillion Question' — Apple, Qualcomm Positioned To Benefit - Yahoo Finance
- 2 AI Stocks to Buy in January and Hold for 20 Years - Yahoo Finance
- 2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs - Axios
- Are AI data centers still needed, or have the Swiss punched holes in them? - New Atlas
- Baidu’s AI Chip Unit Kunlunxin Plans Hong Kong Listing - The Wall Street Journal
- The Best Artificial Intelligence ETF to Invest $2,000 in Right Now - The Motley Fool
- This slow cooker braised beef gave me back a piece of myself - The Washington Post
- Super Micro Computer Just Launched a New AI Server. Should You Buy SMCI Stock Today? - Yahoo Finance
- AI Changed Work Forever in 2025 - Time Magazine
- The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026 - The Guardian
- Trump, atoms, AI and the Texas data center gusher - Politico
- Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to pop? Here’s what history says - Yahoo Finance
- Popular AI chatbot under fire after users create explicit images of child actress (reports) - Syracuse.com
- BigBear.ai to Strengthen Balance Sheet Through Significant Debt Reduction - Yahoo Finance
- AI is no longer optional in K-pop — it’s becoming the new normal - The Korea Herald
- A Once-in-a-Decade Investment Opportunity: The 3 Best AI Stocks to Buy in January 2026 - The Motley Fool
- 2 No-Brainer AI Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist for 2026 - Yahoo Finance
- Instagram CEO: More practical to label real content versus AI - Mashable
- Generative AI-based low-dose digital subtraction angiography for intra-operative radiation dose reduction: a randomized controlled trial - Nature
- 2 Spectacular Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist in 2026, According to Wall Street - The Motley Fool
- Recovering from AI delusions means learning to chat to humans again - The Washington Post
- AI wants our jobs. Don’t let it replace relationships, too | Opinion - USA Today
- Mining our minds: AI and the next frontier of data extraction - Medium
- NFL playoffs: Seahawks get No. 1 seed; Buccaneers win but have to wait - The Washington Post
- Can AI really help us find love? - Financial Times
MAINSTREAM
- Plaud launches the $179 Plaud NotePin S AI recorder, similar to the $159 NotePin but with a button, alongside a new desktop app for recording meeting audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
- SwitchBot turned up to CES with an AI wearable that records everything you say
- Japan Retail Investors Ignore Domestic Bull Market to Opt for US - Bloomberg.com
- Alibaba Brings Visual AI Into Food Fight with China’s Meituan - Bloomberg.com
- Raiders secure No. 1 overall pick in NFL draft after Giants’ win over Cowboys - AP News
- The Subtle Voicebuds use AI to transcribe your words below a whisper, or in very loud spaces (like the CES show floor)
- Yukai Engineering's latest gadget at CES is a fan for babies
- Watch Canada, China Aim to Attract US H1B Holders - Bloomberg.com
- A Week Later, Rainbow Six Siege Is Apparently Under Attack Again, This Time with Brainrot
- Satya Nadella starts blogging about AI, wants to move the conversation beyond "slop"
- DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI
- Govee’s New Smart Ceiling Light Gives You AI Art to Look Up To
- Top Urban Ideas of 2025: CityLab Daily - Bloomberg.com
- My CES 2026 Secret Weapon? This New Wearable AI Note-Taking Pin From Plaud
- Portugal’s presidential election draws 11 candidates, making a later runoff vote likely - AP News
- Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400M; Koi has raised $48M to date (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
- Plaud's latest AI wearable has a button for flagging key moments
- The ‘Stranger Things’ Brothers Keep Explaining Why Things Ended Like That
- Should AI Redraw the Cartoons in This Newsletter? - Bloomberg.com
- France to Ban Food Imports Containing EU-Prohibited Pesticides - Bloomberg.com
- Venezuela Bond Investors Bet on More Gains Post-Maduro Capture - Bloomberg.com
- Britain's Starmer says leadership change would 'not be in national interest' - Reuters
- Explainer: Venezuela's billions in distressed debt: Who is in line to collect? - Reuters
- Xreal unveils the $449 1S, a pair of AR glasses with 1200p, 700 nits brightness, 52 degree FOV, and 16:10 aspect ratio; the 1S can convert any 2D video into 3D (Victoria Song/The Verge)
- Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech)
- Plaud launches a new AI pin and a desktop meeting notetaker
- Battery electric cars will overtake diesels in Great Britain by 2030, analysis suggests
- Is the AI Boom a Bubble Waiting to Pop? Here’s What History Says - Bloomberg.com
- Qualcomm claims Snapdragon X2 Plus beats AMD and Intel in new benchmarks
- Why home maintenance deserves a spot in the annual health and budget plans - AP News
- Spain 'strongly condemns' violation of international law in Venezuela, PM says - Reuters
- A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed "RNGD" is slated to enter mass production this month (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
- Drone strike kills 1 in Russian border region ahead of Ukraine peace talks - AP News
- Thousands stranded overnight as Italy's Bergamo airport halts flights - Reuters
- Greek airports halt flights due to radio frequency issues - Reuters
- US strike on Venezuela to embolden China's territorial claims, Taiwan attack unlikely, analysts say - Reuters
- From the AI bubble to Fed fears: the global economic outlook for 2026
- How the Rose Parade is responding to rain in forecast - Los Angeles Times
- Billionaire tax proposal sparks soul-searching for Californians - Los Angeles Times
- Man killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge identified by community; vigil Sunday - Los Angeles Times
- China Social Media Hails US’ Maduro Move as Taiwan Template - Bloomberg.com
- 49ers’ offense goes silent against Seahawks, costing them NFC’s No. 1 seed - AP News
- International aid groups grapple with what Israel’s ban will mean for their work in Gaza - AP News
- Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
- Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, "designed for intentional living", in November (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
- US to extend productivity lead on back of AI boom, say economists
- Mexico to Bring Back Some Food Tariffs to Aid Local Producers - Bloomberg.com
Total Sources: 215 | Generated: 1/4/2026