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NEWS: Boston Dynamics has just released a new video of its upgraded next-generation humanoid robot called Atlas. • 4 hour battery. Self-swappable for continuous operation • 6 feet 2 inches tall • Weight: 198 lbs • 56 total degrees of freedom • Now fully electric, ditching older hydraulic systems • New lightweight mix of aluminum and titanium components • 110 lbs weight capacity (66 lbs sustained) • Can reach up to 7.5 ft • Constantly evaluates its surroundings and adjusts its posture, balance, and grip in real time • Hands that can reconfigure as needed. Tactile sensors feed data back into the system, helping apply the right amount of force • Brain is powered by Nvidia chips
Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready products and expanded Claude for Life Sciences with new connectors ranging from clinical trial management to regulatory operations - Claude for Healthcare connects to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Coverage Database, International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision codes, and National Provider Identifier Registry, with new Agent Skills for FHIR development and a sample prior authorization review skill that can be customized to organizations' policies - US Claude Pro and Max plan subscribers get beta access to HealthEx and Function connectors now, with Apple Health and Android Health Connect integrations rolling out in beta this week on iOS and Android apps for accessing lab results and health records - Claude for Life Sciences adds connectors to Medidata for trial data and site performance, ClinicalTrials[.]gov, ToolUniverse with 600+ vetted scientific tools, bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint servers, Open Targets, ChEMBL, and Owkin Pathology Explorer for tissue image analysis - New Agent Skills for scientific problem selection, converting instrument data to Allotrope, scVI-tools and Nextflow deployment for bioinformatics, and a sample skill for clinical trial protocol draft generation with endpoint recommendations accounting for regulatory pathways, competitive landscape, and FDA guidelines - Anthropic is hosting "The Briefing: Healthcare and Life Sciences", a free livestreamed virtual event on January 12 at 11:30 AM PST with Anthropic leadership and customer perspectives on AI in healthcare
On demand software generation is going to be as common and foundational in the next 3 years as SaaS is today. Most actions humans will take online and in some cases in person will cause software to be created. Going to be wild to see it happen!
BREAKING: Google Research just dropped the textbook killer. Its called "Learn Your Way" and it uses LearnLM to transform any PDF into 5 personalized learning formats. Students using it scored 78% vs 67% on retention tests. The education revolution is here.
The Oscars will stream exclusively on YouTube, starting in 2029.
NEW: i wrote a complete technical guide to building agent-native software (co-authored with claude) it covers: - the five pillars of agent native design (parity, granularity, composability, emergent capability, self-improvement) - files as the universal interface - agent execution patterns with code samples - mobile agent patterns - advanced patterns like dynamic capability discovery if you want to take full advantage of this moment, it's worth your time: https://every.to/guides/agent-native?source=post_button…
Disney has signed a deal with OpenAI & invested $1 billion into the company Sora will now be able to AI generate videos based on animated, masked & creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar & Star Wars Curated selections of AI generated videos will be released on Disney+
10 days into 2026: - Terence Tao announces GPT & Aristotle solve Erdős problem autonomously - Linus Torvalds concedes vibe coding is better than hand-coding for his non-kernel project - DHH walks back “AI can’t code” from Lex podcast 6 months later An acceleration is coming the likes of which humanity has never experienced before
You guys realize that all software is about to be free, right? And software is presently the most valuable capital asset, right? Guys?
OpenAI Residency 2026 applications are OPEN btw - 6-month full-time paid research gig in SF - ~$220K annualized ($18.3K/month) + relocation - NO prior ML/AI experience required, just strong technical fundamentals & fast learning - Work on frontier AI with top researchers Interviews starts in Jan 2026 Apply: https://openai.com/careers/residency-2026-san-francisco/…
2025 was the year that "Chinese peptides" took over SF. I wrote about it in my first for the NYT: gift link here https://nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlA.bSI-.5puwhP1yiF6B&smid=url-share…
Film’s biggest night is headed to @YouTube, starting 2029.
I am not sure if other developers feel like this. But I feel kinda depressed. Like everyone else, I have been using Claude code (for a while, it’s not a recent thing lol). And it’s incredible. I have never found coding more fun. The stuff you can do and the speed you can do it at now. Is absolutely insane. And I’m using it to ship a lot. And solve customer problems faster. So all around it’s a win. But at the same time. The skill I spent 10,000s of hours getting good at. Programming. The thing I spent most of my life getting good at. Is becoming a full commodity extremely quickly. As much fun as it is. And as much as I like using the tools. There’s something disheartening about the thing you spent most of your life getting good at. Now being mostly useless.
BREAKING: Within the past 72 hours: - Apple's AI Chief steps down - Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta - Apple's Policy Chief steps down - Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down
AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future. To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey. And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.
I really don't think people grasp how powerful Claude's Agent SDK is or the implications... Build agents in natural language that run in loops until the job is done with access to unlimited tools and custom skills
Many people underestimate how fast it is to build with AI and how difficult it is to get other people to care about what you built
