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Artificial Intelligence

Claude Cowork is now open to everyone with a $20 subscription

Our recommendation remains the same, you need to try out Claude Cowork. Not only to understand the gains in productivity that are on the horizon but also just how this is a sign of what’s to come for our society. We are still in the early innings of the AI adoption curve which means most people don’t even know what Claude is, let alone Claude Code or Claude Cowork.

Get ahead, stay ahead.

Read more - Engadget

High profile software engineers are telling us that the age of human written code is over

When the creators of some of the most widely used technology on the planet speak up, it’s important to listen. The creators of Linux and Node.js recently came out praising vibe coding and saying that the time of humans writing code is coming to an end.

Instead it is now our job to find the right problems to solve and use the latest in AI tooling to build creative and reliable solutions.

Read more - Medium (Node.js) - Medium (Linux)

Manus and Replit are the latest to provide a way for users to build and publish mobile apps right to the app store

Everyone and their mother is now capable of vibe coding mobile apps with AI tools but Manus and Replit are making it easier to submit those apps to the app store and get them in front of real users.

We are in the process of building some apps ourselves to see how effective these workflows are and we’ll share our apps here when they are ready.

Read more - CNBC - Manus - X

Adam is the first AI mechanical engineer to hit the market

By using the same tools as a human Adam is able to perform real mechanical engineering tasks on major CAD platforms starting with OnShape.

Read more - Zach Dive

The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.

AI has changed how consumers shop, but people still drive decisions. Levanta’s research shows affiliate and creator content continues to influence conversions, plus it now shapes the product recommendations AI delivers. Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified.

Spatial Computing

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey shares his opinion on Meta’s latest round of layoffs

Meta is not abandoning VR according to one of the industry’s modern pioneers Palmer Luckey.

Read more - RoadToVR

A$AP Rocky’s new video uses 4D volumetric capture surrounded by 3D animation

The artist’s latest music video is a demonstration of the latest technologies available to creatives. They immediately shut down claims that the video was AI generated and instead explained how the use of gaussian splats, Houdini and OctaneRender used 10 TERABYTES of footage to create this visual masterpiece.

Read more - Roberto Nickson

Robotics

The robots are coming….hopefully not for your job just yet

A new video on X China is displaying the LIMX humanoid robot and the post says to “Prepare for a new normal. A new world is coming.”

While adoption and deployment of humanoid robots will surely take time, I am confident that we will look back in 5-10 years and it will feel like it happened quicker than we expected.

Read more - RoboHub

NEO humanoid robots get an upgrade with a new World Model

Humans excel by learning from past experiences. This compounds our abilities over time as experience grows. Now humanoid robots have acquired the same capability.

Read more - TechCrunch

Gaming

Modder creates a 3-in-1 console combining the PS5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2

“I just wanted to make it as a joke, but I didn’t expect it to be useful”

Surprised by her own creation the chinese modder shared her thoughts about the love child of the 3 top gaming consoles on the market. It only takes 3 seconds to switch between the systems and they all share 1 power supply.

The only downside I can think of is if you had all 3 systems then people can play different things simultaneously but not anymore. Perhaps she’ll make a way to output each device individually to different displays for shared gaming.

Read more - GamesRadar

Finance

The New York Stock Exchange is developing tokenized securities platform for 24/7 trading

The world’s largest stock exchange is about to shake up the global markets with the introduction of blockchain-based 24/7 securities trading. Moving into onchain securities has long been speculated and once this platform launches it could be a watershed moment for other exchanges and countries to follow suit.

Good luck catching the stock that blows up at 2am on a Sunday.

Our vision

For all you software engineers out there, this year is going to throw you for a loop. It’s only been a few weeks and we have the creator of Linux admitting that AI can produce valuable code, tools being released that allow anyone to quickly vibe code a mobile app and submit it the app store and an AI agent named Claude is ready to do both your coding and general purpose work.

The advent of AI has reduced iteration cycles from years and months to weeks and the biggest names in computing are bracing for the impact that has on their companies and society. Robotics companies are popping up like weeds and putting out videos that demonstrate the deployment of their metal troops to industries across the globe. While most physical jobs are safe for the time being, we might be singing a different tune by June.

Lastly for this week the NYSE has done the inevitable and confirmed they are going to bring 24/7 blockchain-based trading to the world. What does this mean for the stock market and our ability to make money by investing? What does this mean for all the companies that are currently built around existing trading hours and days?

Will new companies pop up that help everyday people adjust to the new trading paradigm? Feels like an opportunity in the making. There are many questions that come to mind and we’re going to follow this closely to see the impact on both traditional and crypto markets.

With January coming to a close, 2026 is showing us we’re in for a wild ride. Buckle up.

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