January 2026

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Why Your Best Employees Quit Using AI After 3 Weeks (And the 6 Skills That Would Have Saved Them)

A Microsoft study of 300,000 employees revealed that most workers quit using AI after three weeks due to a critical training gap. The key insight is that AI success requires management skills, not...

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Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura live stream

The New Zealand Department of Conservation has launched a live stream of Rakiura, a 23-year-old Kākāpō parrot, sitting on her first egg of the 2026 breeding season. This provides unprecedented...

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Universe of AI

NotebookLM Supercharged: The Ultimate Research Stack (With Gemini 3.0)

This video demonstrates how combining NotebookLM with Gemini creates a powerful research-to-build workflow. NotebookLM becomes the brain that processes and structures information, while Gemini...

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Don't "Trust the Process"

Jenny Wen from Anthropic argues that traditional design processes may be outdated in today's AI-enabled world. Instead of following rigid user research → personas → wireframes workflows, designers...

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Quoting Jasmine Sun

This piece argues that while AI coding tools can theoretically let anyone build apps instantly, most people don't recognize software-shaped problems in their daily lives. Unlike programmers who are...

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