January 2026

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

The Key to Evolving AI Agents? Smart Memory Design!

AI agents can become more intelligent over time without changing the underlying model weights by implementing smart memory systems that log and update strategies, heuristics, and domain knowledge....

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Simon Willison's Weblog

Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation

Qwen has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a family of text-to-speech models that can clone voices from just 3 seconds of audio and generate speech in 10 languages. The key breakthrough is that high-quality...

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Simon Willison's Weblog

Quoting Chris Lloyd

Chris Lloyd from Anthropic's Claude Code team explains that Claude Code isn't just a simple text interface, but rather functions like a game engine with sophisticated rendering architecture. The...

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AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

The People Getting Promoted All Have This One Thing in Common (AI Is Supercharging this Mindset)

Traditional career ladders are collapsing as AI automates entry-level work that once trained newcomers. The solution is developing extreme high agency - an internal belief that you control all...

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Swift.org

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

This tutorial teaches how to improve C library interoperability in Swift using annotations and wrappers. Swift provides annotations that transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift code without modifying...

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