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🧩 50+ Customizable Claude Skills Just Dropped
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🗄️40 Best Free and Open Source NoSQL Databases
💥 AGI Debate Breaks Into the Open
🧠 Inside DeepSeek v3.2: Sparse Attention Explained
🧱Google is steadily building a deeper AI moat
🛡️ ServiceNow is Buying Cybersecurity Startup Armis for $7.75Bn
🙋 Trump’s “Tech Force” draws 25,000 AI applicants
💡 AI Tutorial:How to build, edit, and share mini AI apps
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
A subtle but powerful resource just landed for anyone serious about leveraging Claude at scale. A new GitHub repository has dropped with over 50 ready-to-customize "Claude Skills," essentially structured workflows that train Anthropic's AI to execute specific tasks consistently and on demand.
Media Leaders on AI: Insights from Disney, ESPN, Forrester Research
The explosion of visual content is almost unbelievable, and creative, marketing, and ad teams are struggling to keep up. Content workflows are slowing down, and teams can't find the right assets quickly enough.
The crucial question is: How can you still win with the influx of content and keep pace with demand?
Find out on Jan 14, 2026, at 10am PT/1pm ET as industry leaders—including Phyllis Davidson, VP Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and former media executive Oke Okaro as they draw on their deep media research and experience from ESPN, Disney, Reuters, and beyond.
In the webinar, "The Future of Content Workflows: How AI is Powering the Next Wave," you’ll learn:
The forces reshaping content operations
Where current systems are falling short
How leading organizations are using multimodal AI to extend their platforms
What deeper image and video understanding unlocks for monetization
Get clear insight and actionable perspective from the leaders who built and transformed top media and entertainment organizations.
NoSQL databases are becoming popular day by day. I have come up with the list of best, free and open source NoSQL databases. MongoDB tops the list of Open Source NoSQL databases. This list of free and open source databases comprises of MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, Hypertable, Redis, Riak, Neo4j, HBASE, Couchbase, MemcacheDB, RevenDB and Voldemort.
Demis Hassabis and Yann LeCun Battle Over General Intelligence. While the main argument was about the existence of general intelligence as a concept, there is a deeper link with the technology in which both are heavily invested. Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind, the division which leads Google's major AI projects, from research to deployment. On the other hand, LeCun served as Meta's Chief AI Scientist for years and has recently launched his AI startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs.
AI just had another DeepSeek moment again. With the release of DeepSeek V3.2, this is another breakthrough moment. This has pushed open-source models into performance benchmarks previously dominated by proprietary models. With their latest release, DeepSeek V3.2 has become the first open-source model to achieve a Gold Medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, a feat previously attained only by closed-source models.
Gemini 3 has now outperformed rivals including ChatGPT on speed, reasoning, and benchmark coverage, leading 19 of 20 major tests and setting a new high on Humanity’s Last Exam, a benchmark designed to approximate near-human reasoning. The jump has drawn rare public praise from figures such as Geoffrey Hinton and Marc Benioff, fueling the view that Google may be regaining a dominant position in frontier AI.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Automatisch
The open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.
MusicLM
Generating Music From Text.
precloud
An open source command line interface that runs checks on infrastructure as code to catch potential deployment issues before deploying.
C1 by Thesys - Turn n8n workflows into intelligent AI apps. From chatbots to AI agents for research, analytics or automation, no coding and no changes to your workflow logic. Thesys is the UI your n8n workflows have been missing.
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Well, this seems like a good reason for a recall. Amazon’s self-driving unit Zoox is recalling 332 vehicles in the U.S. over an Automated Driving Systems software error that may cause the vehicles to cross or stop in front of oncoming traffic.
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Amazon’s AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ is getting more friends. The new integrations will now allow the assistant to work with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp starting in 2026, joining existing integrations with Fodor, OpenTable, Suno, Ticketmaster, Thumbtack, and Uber.
This feels secure. Enterprise software maker ServiceNow has agreed to buy cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion. The deal marks the software company’s biggest deal ever in an effort to help counter rising cyberattacks driven by AI adoption. The deal will help the company integrate Alphabet-backed Armis’ security features, such as device scanning and threat detection.
The Trump administration’s new Tech Force hiring campaign has attracted over 25,000 applicants for 1,000 federal technology roles focused on AI. The recruits will serve two-year terms across agencies such as Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Justice, working on AI and data modernization projects intended to upgrade federal systems.
Mon dieu. France’s national postal and banking services were knocked offline yesterday by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on La Poste. The postal service’s online mail and banking services, website, and app are temporarily unavailable, but customers can still carry out banking an postal transactions in person.
AI Tutorial
How to build, edit, and share mini AI apps
Go to Opal by Google Labs and sign in.
Click ‘Create new’ or select an existing app to remix from the gallery.
Describe what you want to build in simple text and press enter.
Sample Prompt: I want to create slides from the PDF. Ask the user to upload a PDF document and the number of slides required. Based on the PDF content, create the number of slides as specified by the user. Do not create a Google Slides presentation; render the content in HTML and show slides in HTML with proper styling.
Opal will generate the full flow in seconds.
Click on any component to edit, add, or remove steps.
The system automatically sets up instructions, prompts, and logic for you—no manual configuration needed.
When everything looks good, click ‘Start’ to run your app.
Easy setup, easy money
Your time is better spent creating content, not managing ad campaigns. Google AdSense's automatic ad placement and optimization handles the heavy lifting for you, ensuring the highest-paying, most relevant ads appear on your site.
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Alice - A native app that offers fast and reliable experience with models (OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude and more)
Linktopia - Community link-building for bloggers, entrepreneurs and startup brands to grow
VerifactAI is an AI fact-checking tool that allows you to fact-check your articles within a minute.
Undress AI Tool is a website that offers a deepnude application, allowing users to create modified images
Screenloop is the ultimate Talent Operations Platform, seamlessly integrating a next-gen ATS
Postlyy - All in one platform to create, schedule, and analyze content on X and LinkedIn
Auto Streamer, your digital alchemist turning ideas into engaging learning experiences
BeeDone is an innovative productivity app that marries AI technology with the art of gamification
View our database of all the best AI tools for your needs: aitoolsup.com
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