From Ink to Video: LORii Launches The First Major Leap in Recommendations Since the Typewriter
LORii has launched VidR, a feature that lets educators attach video or audio recordings to traditional recommendation letters. The multimedia content is accessed via QR codes or secure links, with identity verification protecting privacy. VidR aims to capture non‑verbal cues—tone, facial expression, enthusiasm—that written prose cannot convey. The company positions the tool as the most significant evolution in recommendation practices since the typewriter, targeting graduate admissions, medical residencies, and high‑tech hiring.
CrafterCMS Launches MCP Client Plugin to Enable AI-Powered Digital Experiences
CrafterCMS announced the release of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Client Plugin, an open‑source extension now listed on the CrafterCMS Marketplace. The plugin delivers a ready‑made LLM chat client built on Spring AI, enabling developers to connect any MCP‑compliant large...
Belfast Digital Expert Warns Organic Search Traffic Fragmenting Across AI Platforms
ProfileTree founder Ciaran Connolly warns that organic search traffic in the UK and Ireland is fragmenting across AI‑driven platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews. Research suggests up to 25 % of traditional Google traffic could shift to these...
KNOREX Provides Year-End Business Update Highlighting Record Ad Spend in Q4 and Accelerating Commercial Momentum
KNOREX Ltd. reported a year‑end update highlighting record fourth‑quarter ad spend processed through its AI‑driven XPO platform, the strongest in company history. After completing its NYSE American IPO, the firm increased investment in sales, marketing and go‑to‑market initiatives, generating a...
Flight and the Future with Astronaut Wendy Lawrence.
In this episode, retired Navy captain and former NASA astronaut Wendy Lawrence recounts her journey from watching Apollo 11 as a child to flying four Space Shuttle missions, including the historic STS‑114 return‑to‑flight after Columbia. She highlights the rigorous training...
‘The Biggest Threat to Data Centres Is On-Device AI,’ Says Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas warned that on‑device artificial intelligence could become the biggest threat to traditional data centres, which are slated to see nearly $1 trillion in spending by 2030. He argues that embedding AI models directly on chips will eliminate...
AI Agents Soon Manage Your Shopping, Schedule, and Travel
How AI Agents Will Take Over Your Shopping, Schedule And Travel #AIagents are moving beyond the workplace and into everyday life, with the potential to manage #shopping , schedules, and #travel on our behalf. This article explores practical household use...
Tokenization Is a Renaissance of Ownership
Aaron Gwak argues tokenization isn’t a futuristic buzzword but a revival of the direct, bearer‑style ownership that existed centuries ago, now reinforced by modern regulatory safeguards. Libeara’s data shows that over $1 billion of tokenized assets were sold, with more than...
NyRAG Boosts Retrieval Accuracy with Multi‑Query LLM Expansion
NyRAG (pronounced as knee-RAG) is a simple tool for building RAG applications by crawling websites or processing documents, then deploying to Vespa for hybrid search with an integrated chat UI. When a user asks a question, NyRAG performs a multi-stage retrieval...
499: The Event ROI Reality Check
The episode explores how B2B marketers can make events a strategic, ROI‑driven investment by selecting the right mix, designing memorable experiences, and aligning sales and marketing. Charles Groome explains a three‑bucket framework and the value of smaller listening events, Jamie...
2025 EBA-ECB Payment Fraud Report: Key Insights and Takeaways for Fintechs and PSPs
The 2025 EBA‑ECB report shows European payment fraud losses jumped to €4.2 billion in 2024, a 17 % increase despite a stable fraud‑rate of 0.002 % of transaction value. Remote, digital channels drove the surge, with credit‑transfer fraud reaching €2.5 billion and APP scams...
True Luxury Is Time, Health, and Peace, Not Wealth
What if you hit your income goal this year? And still feel empty... That's how I felt on Jan. 1st, 2022. Still stressed. Still exhausted. Still missing my life. So I decided to redefine luxury: - Good sleep. - Time...
AI Factory Blueprint to Modernize Government and Boost Security
NVIDIA and US Technology Leaders Unveil AI Factory Design to Modernize Government and Secure the Nation https://t.co/L2laH0K1Y3 #AI #IoT #CES2026 @nvidia @PalantirTech @CrowdStrike @ServiceNow @LockheedMartin @northropgrumman @dataiku @DataRobot @DominoDataLab @h2oai @EnterpriseDB @Dynatrace @fiddler_ai @jfrog @protopia_ai @TrendMicro @wandb @Canonical @MirantisIT @nutanix @RedHat @spectrocloudinc...
Currys Upgrades Payment Tech
UK retailer Currys announced a partnership with payment processor Stripe to overhaul its checkout infrastructure. The integration will replace legacy systems with Stripe's unified payments platform, enabling faster, more secure transactions across online and in‑store channels. Currys expects the upgrade...
One in Five New YouTube Videos Are AI Slop
More than 20% of #videos shown to new #YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian https://t.co/6dnTR24LNl #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AI #YouTuber #Technology @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom...
Setbacks Shape Founders by Their Meaning, Not Reality
Most first-time founders believe the hardest part is the situation they’re in. A missed deadline. An investor who passed. A launch that didn’t move numbers. A hire that didn’t work out. In the early days, progress gets interrupted in small, unglamorous ways...
European Banks Plan to Cut 200,000 Jobs as AI Takes Hold
European banks could eliminate more than 200,000 jobs by 2030 as AI reshapes operations, representing roughly 10% of staff across 35 major institutions. The cuts will focus on back‑office, risk management and compliance functions, where algorithms promise up to 30%...
Weak Messaging Keeps Strong Open‑Source Models Unnoticed
There are so many good open source models now but they are not mainstream. The only reason I think is because the messaging around open-source models is not strong enough to compete with closed-source models.
Your Offer Is the #1 Business Growth Lever
The biggest lever you have to improve your business as a whole is your offer. What value are you providing potential customers to get you their time, dollars, experience. Improve your offer and the rest of your funnel will fundamentally change.
How Is GovSat Supporting Secure Connectivity for European Governments?
In this episode, Tamara Bond‑Williams interviews Josef Nemec, Technical Director of GovSat, about the GovSat‑1 satellite’s role in delivering secure, non‑preemptible X‑band and military Ka‑band communications for European governments and NATO allies across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Nemec...
Hallmark Movies Boost Calm Focus for Reluctant Deep‑workers
I don't know how to describe it, but the greatest vibe coding hack for people who hate deep work is to turn on a Hallmark holiday movie in the background. There's something about the movie pacing that makes hammering 3...
Iterative Prompting: Review, Update, Then Re‑ask Codex
How I use codex (mega thread 🧵) First I tell it to do something. Now this part is really important. I look at the response. Then, finally, after updating no markdown files: I tell it to do something else. (this works fine and...
Rare Saturn-Sized Rogue Planet Is First to Have Its Mass Measured
Researchers have measured the mass of a free‑floating, Saturn‑sized planet—KMT‑2024‑BLG‑0792/OGLE‑2024‑BLG‑0516—using a rare combination of ground‑based microlensing observations and Gaia space‑telescope data. The planet’s mass, about one‑fifth that of Jupiter, makes it the first rogue exoplanet with a confirmed mass measurement....
Waymo and Zoox Will Decide Self‑Driving Car Future
Rodney Brooks has just published his annual predictions scorecard about AI, robotics, and technology more broadly. The best part is that he's been doing this for 8 years and scrupulously checks on the accuracy of his past predictions. One small...
Elon Should Invest in xAI, Not Acquire—Optimus Justifies Purchase
Grok is going to be the AI that runs Tesla cars, xAI, Neuralink, and Optimus, among other things. It makes a lot of sense for Tesla to invest in xAI, but I'm not so sure it makes sense to put...
HITL and HOTL: An Air Traffic Control Analogy for Agentic AI
ArisGlobal’s senior VP Jason Bryant argues that both human‑in‑the‑loop (HITL) and human‑on‑the‑loop (HOTL) remain essential for deploying agentic AI in pharma. He uses an air‑traffic‑control analogy, portraying AI agents as aircraft and the orchestration layer as air‑traffic management. Bryant stresses...
Instagram’s Memo Signals Shift From Growth to Control
Adam Mosseri just shared a twenty-slide year-end memo on Instagram. If you skim it, it sounds like familiar talk about AI, authenticity, and creators. If you read it closely, it lands very differently. This isn’t really about growth. It’s about control. The memo...
Stop Predicting, Start Acting: Build, Write, Think Publicly
I keep seeing people try to predict their way out of uncertainty. That instinct is understandable. It’s also misplaced. What landed for me here is the shift away from prediction theater toward agency, intuition, and learning through action. When speed is...
OpenAI Merges Internal Teams to Fix Audio AI Accuracy Gap Ahead of ChatGPT Hardware Push
OpenAI has consolidated several internal audio teams to accelerate the development of next‑generation speech models, aiming to narrow the accuracy and latency gap with its text‑based systems. A new architecture under construction promises more natural, emotional, and real‑time conversational capabilities,...
Ask AI Tough Questions, Not Simple Tasks
You might be asking AI all the wrong questions. “Write me an email.” “Give me ideas.” “Help me with this task.” If you prompt like this, AI will do exactly what you ask. It’ll give slightly better versions of things...
AI-Powered Restaurant SaaS Hits 3x YoY Growth
Nothing like epic investor updates on 1/1/26. First up is @owner: 👩🍳 One of the best companies I've ever invested in is @owner — AI for restaurants. A great example of AI Vertical B2B. They dramatically accelerated in 2025: • Growing almost...
LLMs Could Serve as World Models for Training AI Agents, Study Finds
A multi‑institution study demonstrates that large language models can be fine‑tuned to act as world models, accurately simulating environment dynamics for AI agents. In structured text‑based tasks such as ALFWorld and SciWorld, models like Qwen2.5‑7B and Llama‑3.1‑8B achieved over 99%...
Constraints, Not Model Choice, Drive Real-World AI Success
Do you still care about picking the right model? GPT. Gemini. Claude. Bigger models. Bigger context windows. But when you actually work on real projects, you quickly realize something else. Most decisions aren’t driven by models. They’re governed by constraints. Cost Latency Quality Data privacy Every model call has a...
OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust
OpenWorkers is an open‑source runtime that lets developers execute Cloudflare Workers‑compatible JavaScript on their own servers using Rust’s rusty_v8 V8 isolates. The platform provides familiar bindings such as KV storage, PostgreSQL, S3/R2, and full fetch/Web API support, along with built‑in...
Hyper‑connections Residuals Boost Transformer Stability and Performance
Efficiency and performance tweaks in the transformer architecture usually focus(ed) on the normalization, attention, and FFN modules. For instance: Normalization: LayerNorm -> RMSNorm -> Dynamic TanH Attention: Grouped-query attention, sliding window, multi-head latent attention, sparse attention FFN: GeLU -> SiLU,...
Six Dimensions Align Data Science Teams, Methods, Outcomes
Six dimensions of Data Science — a simple framework to align teams, methods, and outcomes. 1. Goals (Why?) Data Science exists to drive insights, predictions, automation, and optimization — ultimately value creation and better decisions. 2. Methods (How?) Statistics, ML/DL,...
Document Your SOPs Now, Or Lose Premium Sale
When the buyer asks for the SOPs and the founder realizes the "manual" is just their brain. Every founder reaches a point where they feel ready to exit. The growth is there, the product is solid, and they’re already eyeing the next...
Early Adoption Beats Watching: AI Advances Faster Than Expected
The pace of AI progress is easy to underestimate. Models are now outperforming experts across a wide range of knowledge tasks from analysis to application. What’s striking is how quickly this happened. Just a few years ago, this wasn’t even in the...
True Success: 15‑20 Years Building Iconic Ventures
Serial entrepeneur is good Even better is putting in the 15-20 years it likely takes to build something iconic that lasts
Trump Proposes $100B AI Fund in Austin
trump should set up a $100b ai startup fund via us treasury based in austin tx
Leverage the Fresh Start Effect for Immediate Success
Happy 2026! Today is a great day to harness what behavioral scientists call The Fresh Start Effect. “The fresh start effect works because it aligns with human psychology. This is about working with, rather than against, our basic tendencies. We...
AGI Is an End‑to‑end Self‑improving Process, Not
AGI isn’t a model. It’s all about the end to end process. From pre training, to training, to RL, to scaffolding. The self/improving system is AGI.
System Prompts Echo 1980s Expert Systems
2020s: AI "System Prompts": lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules for a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers" 1980s: AI "Expert Systems": lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules for a particular domain, created by "knowledge...
Control Your Dials, Forecast Growth, Shape Results
Start forecasting your growth based on inputs. • Emails sent • Ad tests deployed • Creatives produced • Campaigns launched • Spend velocity by channel Those are the dials you control. You can’t force results, but you can shape what leads to them.
AI Art Contest Offers $18K in ETH Prizes
🌹AI CONTEST 9🌹 Awarding ~18,000 in prizes for AI art. Contest open to anyone, including anti-ai accounts. Theme: WE Medium: AI/Mixed Media Deadline: 2/1/26 Prizes: 1st: 3 ETH (~$9000) 2nd: 1.5 ETH (~$4500) 3rd: 1 ETH (~$3000) 4th & 5th: .5 ETH (~$1500) Theme in next post👇 https://t.co/6rMc5v9WBo
Master Agentic AI: From Foundations to Deployment
Roadmap to master Agentic AI 🧠🤖 Foundations → LLMs → Agent architectures Memory & planning → RAG → Tool use Multi-agent systems → Safety → Deployment → Automation Agentic AI = systems, not prompts. #AgenticAI #AIAgents #GenAI #LLMs #AI https://t.co/BfodYaoFz6
Botslab's G980H Dashcam Wins 2026 CES Innovation Award
Botslab Wins 2026 CES Innovation Award for its G980H Multi-Channel Dashcam https://t.co/Pqkzl1T8AN #ai #ces2026 #iot #5g https://t.co/IVE56tiKfS
DeepSeek Introduces Residual Path Enhancements for Transformers
Efficiency and performance tweaks in the transformer architecture usually focus(ed) on the normalization, attention, and FFN modules. Well, here is a holiday gift from DeepSeek (https://t.co/ow1RpEG2Bv). Finally some improvements of the residual path as well. https://t.co/XhnZwfL5of
StreamUnlimited Debuts Custom Voice LLM at CES 2026
StreamUnlimited Launches Customizable Voice LLM Reference Integration for Audio Agent Products at CES 2026 https://t.co/00kzTGyfLX @CES #AI #IoT #CES2026 https://t.co/7YZG5k58q1
Cool AI Computer on Your Face Outshines Meta Displays
Finally, an AI computer that looks cool. On your face. It will be interesting to see if they can get any decent amount of market share. This looks completely better than the Meta displays.
