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Introducing Cowork | Claude https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview

McKinsey Now Has 60,000 Employees: 25,000 of Them Are AI Agents – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-workforce-ai-agents-consulting-industry-bob-sternfels-2026-1

Today Gmail is taking the first big step into the Gemini era, say hello to AI Inbox, AI Overviews in Gmail, and so much more!!”” https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009301505329762708

Two cofounders leave Thinking Machines Lab to return to OpenAI – Sherwood News https://sherwood.news/tech/two-cofounders-leave-thinking-machines-lab-to-return-to-openai/

How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/accelerating-scientific-research

Building Agents with the Gemini Interactions API https://www.philschmid.de/building-agents-interactions-api

Google Trends Explore page uses Gemini to delve into Search trends https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/google-trends-explore-with-ai/

Building the Universal Commerce Protocol (2026) – Shopify https://shopify.engineering/UCP

Google tests Gemini Auto Browse tool for Chrome users https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-tests-gemini-auto-browse-tool-for-chrome-users/#google_vignette?utm_source=tldrai

Today we are shipping expanded URL support 🔗 in the Gemini API!! You can now pass signed or public URLs directly to Gemini and it will fetch images or PDFs, along with support for a new integration with Google Cloud Storage allowing you to keep you data in one place!!”” https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2010769064956752166

Under the Hood: Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) – Google Developers Blog https://developers.googleblog.com/under-the-hood-universal-commerce-protocol-ucp/

– NEO stands at a glass sliding door – receives a command to close it – “”Dreams”” the execution using a World Model (left) – real NEO then “”copies”” the dream into physical reality (right)”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2010831583318593896

Six months ago, on the first-ever episode of The Humanoid Hub, Eric Jang discussed World Models as something that wasn’t being taken seriously as the core of AI systems. Today, 1X introduced a robotics policy that turns that vision into reality, converting video generation from”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2010828834418147827

Sakana AI Agent Wins AtCoder Heuristic Contest (First AI to Place 1st) https://sakana.ai/ahc058/

Demystifying evals for AI agents \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents

Agent design patterns https://rlancemartin.github.io/2026/01/09/agent_design/

Best practices for coding with agents · Cursor https://cursor.com/blog/agent-best-practices

Introducing MCP CLI: A way to call MCP Servers Efficiently https://www.philschmid.de/mcp-cli

Introducing Slackbot, Your Context-Aware AI Agent for Work | Slack https://slack.com/blog/news/slackbot-context-aware-ai-agent-for-work

Nanobot – an open-source, standalone MCP host for building agents with MCP and MCP-UI. You can deploy it independently or embed it into your own products. It brings together MCP servers, an LLM, and context into a single service, making it easy to build agent experiences across”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2009926143021850810

Replit — Mobile Apps on Replit: Idea to App Store in Minutes https://blog.replit.com/mobile-apps

Scaling long-running autonomous coding · Cursor https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents

Scroll – AI-powered Subject Matter Experts https://www.scroll.ai/

Vibe Coding Without System Design is a Trap https://www.focusedchaos.co/p/vibe-coding-without-system-design-is-a-trap

We’re hitting the limits of scaling attention, but models are expected to remember more, reason longer, and act more reliably. Now reasoning also = memory over time. @SakanaAILabs’ new work – Fast-weight Product Key Memory (FwPKM) – offers a rare combination: large memory”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2009795318909706523

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-writes-almost-all-code-what

gpt is like having an always-on collaborator:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2010164310673371596

gpt-5.2 in codex is a step function improvement”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2009477188677177431

GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in the Responses API–the same model available in Codex. It’s strong at complex long-running tasks like building new features, refactoring code, and finding bugs. Plus, it’s the most cyber-capable model yet, helping to find and understand codebase”” https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2011499597169115219

OpenAI just dropped a 53-min Codex tutorial that’s actually worth your time. Key insight: https://t.co/fsHkWMbeDN files = persistent context that survives sessions. Add task-specific docs (https://t.co/NSTyeGTC0X, https://t.co/GHLWx0O1XF) and you unlock progressive discovery”” https://x.com/fdaudens/status/2010815153743225179

This week on How I AI: OpenAI product lead on getting the most out of Codex https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/this-week-on-how-i-ai-the-power-users

Milestone in AI tools applied to Erdos problems, with GPT-5.2 Pro:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2009739147402244381

Wow, the third Erdos problem solved via GPT 5.2 this week!”” https://x.com/kevinweil/status/2010358466540621875?s=20

@altryne All of it”” https://x.com/bcherny/status/2010813886052581538?s=20

Anthropic just dropped claude code for normies who don’t wanna deal with command line — it’s called claude cowork:”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2010808012165054933

Gas Town Decoded — Andrew Lilley Brinker https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-town-decoded/

Anthropic is making a huge mistake | the singularity is nearer https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/15/anthropic-huge-mistake.html

@techdevnotes Not quite on programming, but it will excel in other areas. Anthropic has done something special with coding. It was a helpful motivator that they cut us off @xAI and not good for their karma.”” https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2011699395717447749?s=20

Report: Anthropic cuts off xAI’s access to its models for coding – Sherwood News https://sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropic-cuts-off-xais-access-to-its-models-for-coding/

Scoop: xAI staff had been using Anthropic’s models internally through Cursor–until Anthropic cut off the startup’s access this week.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Here’s what xAI cofounder Tony Wu sent to staff on Wednesday according to a copy of the internal Slack message I viewed: “Hi”” https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2009686466746822731

Personal Intelligence: Connecting Gemini to Google apps https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/personal-intelligence/

3M lines written over a week of continuous agent time with GPT-5.2 — amazing glimpse of the future:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2011570314216718510

5.2 is great for agentic tasks:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2009834073708277939

codex for hours of cleaning up tech debt:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2009698169396048062

codex has gotten very good at long context management:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2009723119137649096

How @datadoghq uses Codex for preventing incidents: https://x.com/gdb/status/2009710183610814586

personalized health assistant coming to life:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2009836151809683843

so much more fun to watch your agent fix the tests than to do it yourself”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2010554667873575356

Okay, got access to ChatGPT Health and tried a bunch of stuff. Overall: For someone that already manages health in a project, it’s a big improvement. For others who aren’t doing this yet, it will be game-changing if they use it. See the 🧵 because there’s a lot to go through.”” https://x.com/_simonsmith/status/2009731464854642745

Chinese humanoid robotics company LimX Dynamics has unveiled COSA (Cognitive Operating System of Agents). COSA is described as a unified “”brain-body”” architecture that allows the robot to think and act simultaneously in the real world. It integrates: – high-level cognition”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2011530396102770916

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