WisdomTree Halts XRP ETF Launch Plans in the US
WisdomTree announced it is withdrawing its U.S. XRP exchange‑traded fund application, ending plans to launch the product domestically. The firm continues to offer a Physical XRP fund in Europe, listed on Deutsche Börse Xetra, the Swiss Exchange and Euronext. The pullback follows similar retreats by CoinShares and comes as U.S. XRP ETFs have amassed about $1.2 billion in inflows, though overall crypto‑ETF demand remains muted. Analysts view the move as a sign of heightened regulatory caution and strategic selectivity among asset managers.
Dead Coins : Over 50% of Cryptocurrencies Have Failed, Report Reveals
CoinGecko’s latest report shows that 53.2% of all cryptocurrencies tracked on GeckoTerminal have become “dead coins” as of Dec 31 2025, equating to 11.6 million failed projects. The surge accelerated in 2024‑2025, with 86.3% of total failures occurring in 2025 alone, driven by...
Exploring the 50 Pillars of Science Fiction Storytelling
The article outlines fifty foundational themes that shape science‑fiction storytelling, grouped into categories such as space exploration, alien contact, artificial intelligence, biology, temporal manipulation, and societal futures. It details how each pillar— from space colonization and faster‑than‑light travel to AI...
AI 2041 Kindle for $1.99, Audiobook $0.99
Sharing AI 2041 Jan 11th Amazon-US-only one day promo: $1.99 for Kindle and $0.99 for Audiobook, with 陈楸帆Stanley Qiufan Chan Penguin Random House https://lnkd.in/g94Kck_v
AI Neck Camera Sparks Privacy and Acceptance Debate
Would you wear an AI camera hanging around your neck? @Looki_ai shows off an AI listening and assisting device. My 12th #CES2026 report. What if the data is all yours? Soon many of us will be wearing cameras on glasses. I would, but...
Signal Pulse Poll: What's the Mood Going Into JPM?
Endpoints has launched a daily Pulse Poll to capture biopharma sentiment ahead of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2024. The survey asks participants to compare current mood with last year, assess the 2026 risk‑reward balance, and identify the most critical...
Make Prompts Reliable Through Systematic Testing, Not Tricks
If you’re a student or a professional using AI daily, you’ve seen this happen. A prompt works great today. Tomorrow it gives a weird answer. Next week it breaks after a model update 😅 A prompt that works once for one model isn’t reliable. A...
UC Berkeley Robotics Course: RL Foundations & Applications
Advanced Robotics: UC Berkeley This is course is from Peter Abbeel and covers a review on reinforcement learning and continues to applications in robotics. If you work on robotics… this one is worth bookmarking‼️ MDPs: Exact Methods Discretization of Continuous...
Micron Announces a QLC SSD Just Weeks After Killing Its Beloved Crucial Brand — the 3610 Is a Basic Gen5...
Micron unveiled the 3610, a PCIe Gen5 QLC SSD, at CES 2026, marking its first Gen5 G9 QLC client drive and the first single‑sided M.2 2230 offering up to 4 TB. The drive claims sequential reads up to 11 GB/s and writes up to 9.3 GB/s, with...
Master a 6‑Step GTM Strategy to Unlock Growth
I was on a call with a Founder the other day. His growth was stuck. So we got to diagnose the issue. The culprit? They had sent 15,000 emails. And got back zero real responses. They tried blogging. Posting online....
Trust and Iteration: Keys to Successful AI Products
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon @Aish_Reganti and @KiritiBadam have built 50+ enterprise AI products across companies like @OpenAI, @Google, @Amazon, and @Databricks. Based on these experiences, they’ve developed a small set...
Royal Astronomical Society Announces 2026 Award Winners
The Royal Astronomical Society unveiled its 2026 award winners at the A&G Highlights Meeting on 9 January. Professor Shrinivas Kulkarni received the Gold Medal in Astronomy for pioneering work in time‑domain and multi‑wavelength transient astrophysics, while Professor Andrew Jackson earned the...
Stay Calm: Biotech Fundamentals Outshine JPM26 Hype
Good morning on this Sunday before #JPM26! I wrote a JPM opener newsletter with some advice for all of you: Chill out. The super-sized gathering of the biopharma universe is important, but it’s not going to make or break the...
SpaceX Launches NASA’s Pandora Exoplanet Space Telescope
SpaceX successfully launched NASA’s Pandora exoplanet telescope aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, marking the rocket’s fifth first‑stage recovery and a landing on the West Coast. Pandora, a smallsat designed to repeatedly observe 20 known transiting exoplanet host stars, flew alongside...
Choose the Right LLM Type for Each AI Task
8 types of LLMs powering modern AI agents — clearly mapped in one visual. From GPTs and MoE to Reasoning Models (LRM), Vision-Language Models (VLM), Action Models (LAM), and Hierarchical Reasoning (HRM), this shows how agents are no longer “just...
NASA Astrophysics, Commercial Satellites Launch on SpaceX Rideshare Mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 "Twilight" rideshare launched on Jan. 11 from Vandenberg, deploying 40 spacecraft into a dusk‑dawn sun‑synchronous orbit. The manifest included three NASA astrophysics cubesats—SPARCS, BlackCAT and Pandora—alongside commercial constellations from Kepler Communications, Spire, Plan‑S, Hawkeye 360, Capella Space, ICEYE and Umbra....
"It's a Scam": French AI Envoy on X Making Grok Chatbot Pay-to-Perve
French AI ambassador Clara Chappaz called X’s decision to place Grok’s public image‑generation behind a paywall a “scam,” condemning the move as profiteering from illegal deep‑fake sexual content. Malaysia and Indonesia have already suspended Grok, while France, the UK, Australia and...
A New AI Tool Could Dramatically Speed up the Discovery of Life-Saving Medicines
Researchers at Tsinghua University introduced DrugCLIP, an AI framework that can virtually screen millions of compounds against thousands of protein targets in hours, a speedup of up to ten million times over traditional docking methods. The system converts both molecules...
Consumer Brief Highlights the Growing Importance of Analytical Research in Online Cryptocurrency Activity
Online cryptocurrency activity is expanding rapidly, increasing the need for clear analysis of complex blockchain transactions. Justice Trace positions itself as a neutral cyber‑trace investigation platform that reconstructs on‑chain activity without participating in trading or providing financial advice. The brief...
NDSS 2025 – EMIRIS: Eavesdropping On Iris Information Via Electromagnetic Side Channel
Researchers at Shandong University presented EMIRIS at NDSS 2025, demonstrating that electromagnetic emissions from near‑infrared iris sensors can be captured and used to reconstruct iris patterns. By reverse‑engineering the sensor’s data transmission format and applying a diffusion‑based inverse‑problem solver, the...
A Coding Guide to Demonstrate Targeted Data Poisoning Attacks in Deep Learning by Label Flipping on CIFAR-10 with PyTorch
The MarkTechPost tutorial walks readers through a targeted data‑poisoning experiment that flips a portion of CIFAR‑10 labels from a chosen class to a malicious class using PyTorch. By constructing parallel clean and poisoned training pipelines with a lightweight ResNet‑18, the...
Give Real Reasons, Not Fake Scarcity, to Motivate
You need a better reason for someone to act rather than a “better” CTA. • Scarcity is fake. • Urgency is overused. Be clear, specific, and honest. People aren’t dumb, they’re just overloaded with garbage. Stand out by not insulting...
GenAI Platforms Fail to Cite Sources, Raising Ethical Concerns
Dear Leaders and experts in fields relating to “Artificial Intelligence” (all types and tools including specifics of how human data is used as the origin or basis for any system design and use) and “Ethics” (meaning formal philosophy, law, policy...
Sender: The Affordable Email and SMS Platform Built for Growth
Sender is an email and SMS marketing platform that offers a free‑forever plan with full‑feature access, positioning itself as a low‑cost alternative to legacy ESPs. The service claims a 99.98% inbox placement rate thanks to dedicated sending infrastructure and continuous...
Hire Salespeople Who Are Motivated by Money
Never hire anyone in sales that doesn't care about money You'll see
Shopify Launches Open Universal Commerce Protocol for Agents
Shopify is building the foundation for agentic commerce. Universal Commerce Protocol, which we co-developed with Google, is now live. UCP will make it faster for agents and retailers to integrate. It’s open by default, so platforms and agents can use UCP to...
California Bans Data Broker Reselling Health Data of Millions
California's Privacy Protection Agency fined data‑broker Datamasters $45,000 and barred it from selling Californians' personal health information after it failed to register under the California Delete Act. The agency also ordered the firm to delete millions of records by the...
Sell to Executives, Not Middle Managers, Cut Churn
I was recently chatting with Dan Pfister (author of Million Dollar Winback) about the real reasons SaaS companies lose customers. He shared a story of how one SaaS company dropped churn from 18% to 3% by changing who they sold...
Meet SETA: Open Source Training Reinforcement Learning Environments for Terminal Agents with 400 Tasks and CAMEL Toolkit
Researchers from CAMEL AI, Eigent AI and partners released SETA, an open‑source stack that couples a terminal‑focused toolkit with 400 synthetic reinforcement‑learning tasks. The framework delivers state‑of‑the‑art results on the Terminal Bench benchmark, hitting 46.5% accuracy on version 2.0 with a...
Companies Prioritize Efficiency Over Growth, AI Leads Shift
Hiring slowdowns aren’t isolated right now. Many companies are holding headcount flat, protecting capital, and waiting for more clarity before expanding teams. Attrition is also unusually low, which tells you something about uncertainty in the market. 👉 Efficiency, not expansion, is the current...
“Motivational Brake” Could Point to Schizophrenia and Depression Treatments
Researchers at Kyoto University identified a ventral striatum‑to‑ventral pallidum (VS‑VP) circuit that functions as a "motivation brake" suppressing action initiation under stressful conditions. Using chemogenetic inhibition in macaque monkeys, they showed that silencing this pathway restored willingness to start tasks...
Framing Your Words Determines Whether Customers Buy
Sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Or, as a brain scientist would would say, how you frame it. The words you choose can make the difference between someone liking your product or not. Someone agreeing...
Questioning Due Diligence Behind Stripe's Kontigo Partnership
What kind of due diligence did @stripe @Stablecoin @raincards @checkbook do before working with Kontigo, exactly? https://t.co/gpNCUPnzM0
Google Announces a New Protocol to Facilitate Commerce Using AI Agents
Google unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard that lets AI agents handle end‑to‑end shopping experiences. Developed with retailers such as Shopify, Walmart and Target, UCP streamlines discovery, checkout and post‑purchase support across platforms. The protocol will power...
Robot Dog Black Panther II Near Human Sprint Speed
MirrorMe’s Black Panther II: The #Robot Dog That’s Almost Faster Than Humans via @XRoboHub #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/NHGfcA7x6K
US Money Fuels Spanish‑Language Sanctions‑Evasion App
Apparently, you can land American investors for a sanctions evasion app, as long as it's en español. Kontigo's stated investors only include ONE LatAm-based investor🤔
'A Completely New Manufacturing Frontier': Space Forge Fires up 1st Commercial Semiconductor Factory in Space
Space Forge announced the first plasma generation aboard its ForgeStar‑1 satellite, marking the inaugural commercial in‑orbit semiconductor factory. The miniature furnace produced plasma at 1,000 °C, proving that gas‑phase crystal growth can be achieved in low‑Earth orbit. The company plans to...
FDA Delays Stoke's Fast‑track Filing for Epilepsy Drug
$STOK FDA puts off Stoke’s request for faster filing of severe epilepsy drug https://t.co/F8iRgZ5h3o #JPM26
Squarespace Design Plugin Generates $340K Revenue, 39% Growth
Plugins + SaaS print money. Live on @acquiredotcom: All-in-one website design plugin for Squarespace freelancers and agencies. Faster builds, no custom code, sticky subscriptions. > $340K TTM revenue > $223K TTM profit > 39% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/Y8gnOYsd82 https://t.co/kiUkoUUPCu
Incumbents Shift From Open APIs to Closed Walls
Salesforce, Datadog & Epic are building walls. After two decades of flourishing through open APIs & data portability, the software industry's largest incumbents are locking down. https://t.co/7n6Tio3aJK
AI Agents Outperform Mediocre Hires, Replacing Mid‑Pack Workers
"If I had 2 more great humans, I'd hire them tomorrow. If they were truly great. But a Pretty Good AI agent is better than ... hiring a human that isn't great. We don't need placeholder hires anymore. AI Agents...
System Design, Not Tools, Drives Lasting AI ROI
AI tools aren’t the edge. System design is. Chatbots = interface Automation = leverage Knowledge = memory Data + workflows = ROI Tools are replaceable. Capabilities aren’t. https://t.co/wpNCwkjyBo
Strategy Beats Volume: 6‑Step GTM Wins 2026
I spoke to a founder who sent 15,000 cold emails. The result? Near zero responses. He fired his marketer. Hired an expensive agency. Still zero results. The problem wasn't the execution. It was the STRATEGY. Here is the 6-step GTM framework that works...
Biotech Funding Hits Record Levels in January
Biotech capital markets are clearly open for business: $2.6B in public FOPO so far in January, the most ever pre-JPM conference. Private VC financings of over >$2B in the same period. Investors clearly have cash to put to work......
Meningococcal Vaccine No Longer Universal Despite Deadly Risk
#Meningococcal disease has been rare. But when it occurs, it is devastating. High death rate. Survivors often lose limbs, as this person did. There's no way to accurately assess who is at risk. And yet meningococcal vaxes are no longer...
Walmart Hedges AI, Retailers Must Join Chatbot Commerce
Walmart is hedging its AI bets. Gemini from Google, ChatGPT from OpenAI. When consumers start shopping through chatbots, retailers can’t afford to be absent. Link: https://t.co/fjexyHFvSa
Stablecoin Firms Must Tighten AML and Sanctions Controls Now
Incredible work by @mikulaja @kontigo_app was at best a naive puppet for sanctions violations At worst a knowing participant. The whole stablecoin industry is on notice Get your AML and Sanctions controls buttoned up or there will be blowback It's when not...
Free Tutorial: From FASTQ to GSEA in Bulk RNA‑seq
Free tutorial: bulk RNAseq analysis from fastq to GSEA analysis (watch the full playlist) https://t.co/v0UHRSqJ63 https://t.co/LtdxPNYG5Y
Narrow Your Niche: Key to Startup Success
Most startups don't fail because they build bad products. They fail because they try to serve everyone. One of the biggest lessons for us this past year at Univid was narrowing down the niche harder - not expanding it. https://t.co/RlCp4pBsvI
Resumes Boast AI Bioinformatics, but Real Expertise Missing
Looking at bioinformaticians’ profiles these days, you'd think everyone has decades of experience in cutting-edge single-cell and AI-driven bioinformatics. But something’s missing… 👇 https://t.co/yvmvcwXWyr
