January 2026

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Apple Took Years to Catch Up. Kilo Code Took 6 Weeks--and It's Coming for Lovable, Cursor, Replit

This week brought major AI industry shifts with XAI's massive $20 billion funding round and Apple's surprising partnership with Google for AI models. The AI landscape is consolidating into just four...

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AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

The Key to AI Readiness? Train for Skills, Not Just Jobs!

The traditional job-based career model is becoming obsolete in the AI era. Instead of thinking in terms of fixed job roles, professionals need to shift toward continuous skills development that can...

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Universe of AI

MiniMax Agent: The Claude Cowork Killer That's 10x Cheaper!

MiniMax Agent is an open-source AI desktop agent that competes with Claude Co-work by offering similar file management and automation capabilities. The platform features a unique "experts" system...

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AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Rethink AI Research: Avoid the 'Slop Crisis' Now!

The AI research community is facing a "slop crisis" where the sheer volume of formulaic and low-quality papers is overwhelming review systems. Leading venues can no longer reliably separate genuine...

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Simon Willison's Weblog

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents

Cursor's research team built a functional web browser from scratch using thousands of autonomous AI agents working in parallel. The project demonstrates AI agents can now coordinate on complex,...

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