Social•Jan 5, 2026
Balanced Regulation Fuels Fair, Innovative Digital Markets
Healthy digital markets require a careful balance between innovation, regulation, consumer protection and data governance, creating open competition, aligning global rules and keeping dominant platforms accountable to fair and transparent standards. Microblog by @antgrasso https://t.co/FSKQurz6FZ
By Antonio Grasso
Social•Jan 5, 2026
AI Prospecting Gains Momentum as Advisors Seek Growth
Will advisors who dislike outbound prospecting be convinced to give it a try using tools like @FINNYAI? This month #AdvisorTech kicks off with the news that the AI-powered prospecting solution FINNY has recently raised $17 million in Series A funding...
By Michael Kitces
Social•Jan 5, 2026
AI Won’t Instantly Devalue Engineering Talent in Startups
All I can think about is how we used to talk about enterprise value of startups based on engineering headcount. Some people think the value of a code-capable FTE is about to drop with AI… but I’m not so sure
By Danielle Morrill
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Seal Leaks Before Scaling: Fix Offers, Flows, Products
Most marketers need to fix the 3 things killing their performance: • Offers that don’t excite • Flows that don’t convert • Products that don’t deliver You don’t scale a leaky ship. You slow down, seal it up, then go faster than ever.
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Strong Fundamentals, Not Subscription Model, Drive SaaS Sales
One of the biggest myths in SaaS is that if a business isn’t pure subscription, it’s not sellable. That’s wrong. A recent $4.5M cloud computing acquisition on @acquiredotcom proved it. This company didn’t have textbook recurring revenue, but it did have...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Most Financial Products Aim to Make Consumers Fail
[New Episode] Most Financial Products Are Designed to Make Consumers Fail with co-author of Fixed, Tarun Ramadorai, Professor at the @imperialcollege. Watch the full video: https://t.co/ULBFc2UkuF https://t.co/0rIOCxB0zX
By Jim Marous
Social•Jan 5, 2026
8.5‑Hour Live Tuna Battle Captivates 2,500 Viewers
My commercial fishing company did something online that has never been done before a few days ago, and the story is a wild one. Here's what went down: During commercial bluefin tuna season (which happens to be right now) we...
By Marcus Sheridan
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Flutterwave's Mono Acquisition Signals Maturing African Fintech Ecosystem
Flutterwave buys Nigeria's Mono in rare African fintech exit Rare African fintech M&A: Flutterwave's Mono acquisition shows ecosystem maturation. Exit opportunities emerging as pan-African players build vertically integrated infrastructure https://t.co/fVkBluzRqK https://t.co/HYaa1zlfhC
By Efi Pylarinou
Social•Jan 5, 2026
From Answers to Action: AI’s Five Pillars Evolve
Modern AI = 5 pillars 🧠⚙️ ✨ Generative AI (create) 🧩 LLMs (reason) 🔎 RAG (ground + verify) 🤖 AI Agents (act) 🚀 Agentic AI (coordinate + scale) We’re moving from AI that answers → AI that executes outcomes. Which pillar wins next? 👇 #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #RAG...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Stop Blaming, Build a Consistent Revenue Engine
If you missed your 2025 targets, please don't: – Blame your team – Hire a bunch of new people or a new agency “to fix it” – Add tools you don’t fully use – Chase new tactics after watching one...
By Krista Mollion
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Launch a Micro‑SaaS in One Week, Iterate Fast
Build a Micro-SaaS in 7 days. Test the market. Then double down or kill it. Rinse and repeat until you have a working product. 🔹 Days 1-2: Think like a user, not a founder. What makes this necessary? Sketch the data and the screens....
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Agentic AI Boosts Advantage, Yet Sparks Four Tensions
The 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy report, from @mitsmr and @BCG , looks at how organizations that are adopting agentic AI are gaining advantage while facing four distinct tensions. Read the full report >> https://t.co/yt7MtRu91D #CES2026 #AI #IoT...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Transparency in Data Use Builds Trust and Engagement
Transparency matters. Banks that show exactly how customer data drives better experiences gain trust and engagement. Learn more in the free report: https://t.co/8tDqGmzCp6 https://t.co/W6BGneNP4I
By Jim Marous
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Visual Search Drives Higher Purchase Intent Than Text Queries
People want to talk about search on ChatGPT or other AI platforms, but no one really talks about visual search. Just look at Google Len's explosion over the years. The thing about Google Lens compared to traditional searches is that there is...
By Neil Patel
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Start Now, Learn By Doing, Not Over‑Planning
Everyone wants the perfect plan. Truthfully, the plan is almost never the problem. I've seen people with terrible strategies build great businesses. And people with brilliant ideas go absolutely nowhere. The difference is always the same. One person started before...
By Justin Welsh
Social•Jan 5, 2026
AI-Powered LEOM Revolutionizes Satellite Mapping
Seeing The Lay Of The Land With AI. A new AI model, the Large Earth Observation Model (LEOM) is transforming the process of map-making. https://t.co/TLjW5z5ymH #TechNews #AI #LEOM #ScienceDirect
By Catherine Adenle
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Find Support at Exit Five During Slow January
5 days into January. CEO already on you about why January is pacing slow… Good time to join a community like Exit Five. Place to vent, get feedback, share with your peers. Details here: https://www.exitfive.com/
By Dave Gerhardt
Social•Jan 5, 2026
QR Payments Power SE Asia AI Fintech Boom
Beyond payments: SE Asia's QR fuels AI fintech surge • Wealth +24%, insurance +16% YoY • 700 AI startups—3X consumer enthusiasm • Cross-border QR remittances rocket • $300B digital GMV—15% growth unstoppable The real bombshell is in the chart below → Don’t miss the chart...
By Richard Turrin
Social•Jan 5, 2026
QR Adoption Fuels Asia's Mobile Money Explosion
Asia's mobile money explodes: 862M users, 41% global share (UPI/WeChat excluded) • QR accepted at 76% merchants—double global average • Drives 80% digital tx in East Asia, ~$500B volume • P2P 70% of flows; remittances +50% YoY • 1 in 3 new global accounts...
By Richard Turrin
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Agentic AI: Autonomous, Ethical, Human‑Centric Intelligence
🧠 What is agentic AI? Think of today’s AI, but remove the need for most human prompts Think multi-modal AI, hyper-personalized experiences, open-source innovation, real-time edge computing, sustainable design, and a growing focus on how humans and AI work together, ethically. ...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 5, 2026
InsurTech Investment Growth Hits Gartner-Style Plateau
The plateau of productivity. 🧐 → https://t.co/lB4HCrj1eu This echoes - you may have recognized it - the famous Gartner curve. And that’s exactly what came to mind as I looked at the curve of InsurTech investments in Europe at the end of...
By Florian Graillot
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Robots Take Center Stage: Music Meets Future Tech
What better way to kick off the new year than “Everybody” at Sphere with robots? 🤖🎶 The Backstreet Boys’ performance at Sphere was a reminder that when music, immersive tech, and robotics collide, the future feels very present. High energy, iconic...
By Helen Yu
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Avoid Costly AI Agent Mistakes That Threaten Millions
The 5 AI Agent Mistakes That Could Cost Businesses Millions #AI #agents are set to transform how businesses operate, but many organizations are walking into this shift unprepared. This article explores the five biggest #mistakes #leaders will make with #AIagents...
By Bernard Marr
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Pebble Leads CES AI Ring Competition, Says Trusted Source
#ces2026 Report #5. This is one of several new AI rings at CES. A guy I trust says @Pebble has the best. https://t.co/7ShwQu1lvx
By Robert Scoble
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Transformation Limits: Respect Human Cognitive Load Capacity
I’ve been thinking about a question we don’t ask often enough: Does an enterprise have a cognitive load capacity? Not in a technical sense - but a human one. Every new system, operating model, policy, dashboard, or AI tool asks...
By Ian Barkin
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Brain‑sensor Headphones Unlock AI Glasses Interaction
#CES2026 Report #3: the most futuristic thing I have seen so far. Headphones with brain sensors on them. Makes a new kind of user interaction possible in AI glasses. https://t.co/DLTRWne1bp https://t.co/8GN6imr8yG
By Robert Scoble
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Low‑Power Vision Chips Promise Private Glasses by 2027
CES Report #2: @AsygnOnline claims it has the best computer vision chips for glasses. Uses very little power. I include this because these chips are going to run the vision workloads in glasses of the future. They will demonstrate how glasses can...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Tags Trump Folders: Let Meaning Emerge via Search
Scott wrote this and it finally clicked for me. Credit where it’s due. “Gen Z is right to not care about folders.” The reason this is correct has nothing to do with age. It’s about how information actually behaves. Folders force premature certainty....
By Hiten Shah
Social•Jan 5, 2026
AI-Powered Free App Detects Breast Cancer Earlier
CES Report #1 (Will be doing then all week). AI helps detect breast cancer earlier thanks to https://t.co/JUyaGOd5KN Free app. https://t.co/z3tHaPSnVi
By Robert Scoble
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Optimus Robot: Musk’s Dream Still Far From Reality
What is the reality of Elon Musk’s pipe dream, Optimus Robot? https://t.co/e1dka35Tmv #optimus #Robot #Robotics #Tech #robotech #HumanoidRobots #humanoid
By Amitav Bhattacharjee
Social•Jan 5, 2026
AI Teachers and Cybernetics Will Redefine 2050 Society
AI teachers and cybernetics - what could the world look like in 2050? https://t.co/c68ebMxC4i #ArtificialInteligence #FutureTech #FutureOfWork #AI #machine #Tech #tech2050
By Amitav Bhattacharjee
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Cyber AI From China, Not Sentient AI, Poses Greatest Threat
Another of my 2017 predictions "AI Scary for the Right Reasons" in https://t.co/78S560AWE7 and https://t.co/IjLwOPJn7P starts to come true in 2025: https://t.co/PVPC6ookDh. I argue sentient AI is not the largest risk but cyber AI from China is!
By Vinod Khosla
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Data Centers’ Hidden Water Footprint Exceeds Surface Comparisons
I'd just like to note that while I appreciate anyone urging the avoidance of hype regarding water usage for hyperscale data centers, I would also like to point out how many of the same quotes and attitudes in articles calling...
By John C. Havens
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Intelligent Vision Leads CES 2026 Tech Trends
CES 2026 @CTATech Tech Trends - Intelligent Vision #CES2026 @CES #AI @JimHarris @sarbjeetjohal @c4trends https://t.co/CKxppjwQIs
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 5, 2026
CES 2026 Highlights Agentic, Vertical, and Industrial AI
AI at CES 2026 @CTATech Tech Trends #CES2026 @CES #AI Frontiers of Innovation: ✅ AgenticAI ✅ VerticalAI ✅ IndustrialAI @JimHarris @sarbjeetjohal @c4trends https://t.co/YDoOYparLh
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 5, 2026
Separate Risk Tolerance and Capacity to Avoid Over‑Risky Portfolios
By averaging together risk tolerance and risk capacity scores, the advisor can unwittingly end up in situations where clients with extremely low risk tolerance (or risk capacity) end up with portfolios that are far too risky for their situation. In...
By Michael Kitces
Social•Jan 4, 2026
When Execution Is Cheap, Judgment Becomes the Bottleneck
Execution is no longer the constraint. As building gets cheaper, judgment becomes the scarce resource. Models can generate options endlessly. What they don’t accumulate is lived consequence. They don’t carry the memory of failed bets, abandoned paths, or tradeoffs that only made...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Jan 4, 2026
DeepSeek Reveals Signal Distortion Causes Deep Net Instability
1/11 One of the most important papers of 2025 is DeepSeek's "mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections" To understand it, let's start with a fundamental question. Why do very deep neural networks suddenly blow up during training? Short answer: signals get distorted as they...
By Satya Mallick
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Treat AI Kindly; Abuse Doesn't Improve Its Learning
AI is now learning. Like I showed you with @blevlabs’s cognitive architecture last year. It will remember when you are an asshole😜 Grok can already tell you when I was. But with continually learning systems they get smarter like a human learns. If you...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Every App Becomes a Self‑Coding, Shareable Platform
prior gen software products often added scripting languages/macros so that people can extend functionality (Excel being the most famous, but also modding in games, etc) what if every app becomes a vibe coding app? That is, in any app that you use...
By Andrew Chen
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Ensuring AI Coding Gains Outpace Technical Debt Costs
I'm a massive fan (and daily user) of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Codex CLI. One of the questions we'll need to ponder in 2026: How do you make sure that the compounding value you are getting from...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Jan 4, 2026
AI Accelerates Mediocre Ideas, Reveals True Judgment
AI changes how fast mediocre ideas get shipped and how quickly real judgment is exposed. There’s no hiding behind effort anymore.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Small Pop-Up Tests Yield Million-Dollar Gains
Test Your Pop-Up 🚨 I can’t tell you how many brands we audit that have absolutely no pop-up testing going on. Always have some sort of test running. A 2-3% improvement to your opt-in rate can result in hundreds of thousands of dollars...
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Jan 4, 2026
DeepSeek OCR Cuts Token Usage 10×, Hits 97% Accuracy
ICYMI DeepSeek has just unveiled an OCR monster 🤯 DeepSeek-OCR is a 3B-parameter model that redefines document intelligence. It reaches 97% character-level accuracy with 10× input compression, preserving every detail. Most OCR systems require over 6,000 tokens per page. DeepSeek-OCR achieves the same...
By Data Chaz
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Europe's New Autonomous Maritime Platform Ready by 2026
introducing a multi-use maritime system built to defend Europe: in just about a year, @polarmistai has gone from system design, data collection, and three scaled up platform builds for a high-speed autonomous maritime platform that can carry many payloads -...
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Claude Code Completes a Year's Work in One Hour
Wow. Principal Engineer at Google reveals Claude Code built a year’s worth of work in just one hour, matching months of engineering effort by her team. https://t.co/QhPgnYwwgt
By Data Chaz
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Non‑technical Users Share Practical AI Code Tool Uses
if you’re not technical but use droid/claude code etc what do you use it for? how (be specific)
By Ben Tossell
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Community Reachy Mini Apps: Wishlist and Gaps Identified
Today, I'm trying all the reachy mini apps already created by the community. Which one should I focus on or which ones are still to be built? Resharing my xmas wish list below: - "What is love" Reachy mini plays "what...
By Clément Delangue
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Intentional Positioning Turns Podcast Inboxes Into Revenue
Some podcasts generate millions annually through sponsorships alone. That doesn’t come from scale by accident. It comes from clear positioning, strong relationships, and taking inbound interest seriously. 👉 Most opportunities are missed in the inbox. Monetization improves when you’re intentional... not passive.
By Eric Siu
Social•Jan 4, 2026
Outsourcing Thought to AI Erodes Your Judgment
The more you outsource thinking, the more expensive it becomes to get it back. The AI model will keep going day by day, happily producing plausible answers and polished reasoning. It will never say when you’re slowly losing the ability...
By Hiten Shah