The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
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Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
In late 2025 the company behind MinIO decided to abandon it to pursue other commercial interests. As well as upsetting…
Raspberry Pi’s New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Raspberry Pi’s new AI HAT adds 8GB of RAM for local LLMsJan 15, 2026Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130…
Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing
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Breaking through AI’s memory wall with token warehousing
VB EventVB Staff January 15, 2026 Shimon Ben-David, CTO, WEKA and Matt Marshall, Founder & CEO, VentureBeatAs agentic AI moves…
The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
CreepyLink The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible. Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them…
Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI
Former OpenAI exec Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is saying goodbye to two of its co-founders, both of whom…
Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyThinking Machines cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz are leaving the fledgling AI lab…
A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces
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Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston?
In 1988, James D. Johnston at Bell Labs and Karlheinz Brandenburg in Germany independently invented perceptual audio coding – the…
Pentagon’s “Arsenal of Freedom” tour borrows name from Star Trek episode—about killer AI
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The Stream Deck Plus is back to its lowest price
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Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storySince Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, the biggest names in…
Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe
Elon Musk said Wednesday he is “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok,” hours before the California…
Z.ai’s open source GLM-Image beats Google’s Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics
Carl Franzen January 14, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with GLM-Image on Fal.aiThe two big stories of AI in 2026 so…
SelfCI – a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI
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Save Big on One of Our Favorite Desk Lamps from Lume Cube
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BMW says electric M3 will be a ‘new level’ of performance
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A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent
Christine Miao nails it here: > Teams that can easily absorb junior talent have systems of resilience to minimize the…
AI agents can talk — orchestration is what makes them work together
Taryn Plumb January 14, 2026 CleoP created with MidjourneyRather than asking how AI agents can work for them, a key…