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AI agents have gotten good enough at long horizon tasks that it is an inflection point in the impact of AI at work. Agreement on this from METR, GDPval & now Anthropic. If you have a tool that saves 8 hours 65% of the time, that changes work, even counting potential error rates.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2012237630411292859
Organizations have started catching up to the prior best practices for employee AI use (access to frontier models, training, champion programs, prompt libraries)… …except almost all of this now has to be re-invented for a world of agents driven by skills that do long tasks.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2013726596901769715
Gartner Says Worldwide AI Spending Will Total $2.5 Trillion in 2026 https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-1-15-gartner-says-worldwide-ai-spending-will-total-2-point-5-trillion-dollars-in-2026
A business that scales with the value of intelligence | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence/
The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-openai.html
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
Sharing our principles for how we will approach ads in ChatGPT before we start testing in the U.S. in the coming weeks. Most importantly: ads will not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you.”” https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/2012226082716393960
We are starting to test ads in ChatGPT free and Go (new $8/month option) tiers. Here are our principles. Most importantly, we will not accept money to influence the answer ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations private from advertisers. It is clear to us that a lot”” https://x.com/sama/status/2012253252771824074
I have great respect for Elon, but the way he cherry-picked from my personal journal is beyond dishonest. Elon and we had agreed a for-profit was the next step for OpenAI’s mission. The context shows these snippets were actually about whether to accept Elon’s draconian terms.”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2012328080678031844
The truth Elon left out | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/the-truth-elon-left-out/
Salesforce ships higher-quality code across 20,000 developers with Cursor · Cursor https://cursor.com/blog/salesforce
From text to assembled objects, end to end. The idea is simple but powerful: You describe an object in words. AI designs it in 3D. A robot figures out how to build it from real parts. Text to robotic assembly of multicomponent objects is introduced by a team from MIT and”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012239250939347083
AI Gains Starting to Show in the Real Economy https://weightythoughts.com/p/ai-gains-starting-to-show-in-the
LLMs and your career | notes.eatonphil.com https://notes.eatonphil.com/2026-01-19-llms-and-your-career.html
Google Stitch to add API keys and PRD generation for PMs https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-stitch-to-add-api-keys-and-prd-generation-for-pms/
If there is a financial bubble in AI, which is not in any way clear, there is no “”use bubble”” – a billion people use AI weekly. It isn’t going away. Even if every frontier lab went under (but Google, which can’t), AI development would continue with the same people at other firms”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2013113404173545956
Exclusive | Nvidia Invests $150 Million in AI Inference Startup Baseten – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-invests-150-million-in-ai-inference-startup-baseten-fe7ede72?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeR3sqYhw5a0FcdRiyhPR-60zeYIk0nKVlyKC7xgStbfBv0fmQ5AnPcSVbEQw%3D%3D&gaa_ts=696ff05d&gaa_sig=MZMKUgIAJ_yn0AF06F3cgPlzfzBoTZT7JrpU4DLoF7osdX8FfLnt7MKOG2euclAeccbEsGGjYmNZr_ZJVdoLkQ%3D%3D
Excited to welcome Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz back to OpenAI! This has been in the works for several weeks, and we’re thrilled to have them join the team. Barret will report to me; Luke and Sam will report into Barret. More to come on what they’ll focus on soon!”” https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/2011592010881446116
OpenAI’s former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a ‘moat’ | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/openais-former-sales-leader-joins-vc-firm-acrew-openai-taught-her-where-startups-can-build-a-moat/
Well… there is this paper on GPT-4 that found it was good at setting prices on behalf of the user (as opposed to against them, as in this joke post) In fact, if it is possible to establish an oligarchy, LLM agents secretly collude on your behalf to the detriment of customers!”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2013080195255676965
New Wikimedia Enterprise Partners: Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/wikipedia-25-enterprise-partners/
Actually the majority of studies have so far found that AI reduces inequality and closes skill gaps There are relatively few that found the opposite–that experts got even better. One was compelling enough to build a narrative that AI would increase skill gap. But it wasn’t real”” https://x.com/alexolegimas/status/2012334799998861451
The Commoditization of Services – by Carl Cortright https://blog.excel.holdings/p/the-commoditization-of-services
Our 2025 Impact Report is out. The AI industry is scaling exponentially – investment, compute, data center buildouts. So, it turns out, is demand for making sense of it all. See how we’ve kept up!”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2012226390461132824
I have left xAI Nothing but love to my former team and coworkers!”” https://x.com/sulaimanghori/status/2013261823475097732?s=20
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