Daily AI Recap: Jan 17, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

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How to Build a Stateless, Secure, and Asynchronous MCP&Style Protocol for Scalable Agent Workflows: In this tutorial, we build a clean, advanced demonstration of modern MCP design by focusing on three core ideas: stateless communication, strict SDK-level validation, and asynchronous, long-running op...
How to Build a Self-Evaluating Agentic AI System with LlamaIndex and OpenAI Using Retrieval, Tool Use, and Automated Quality Checks: In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI workflow using LlamaIndex and OpenAI models. We focus on designing a reliable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agent that can reason over evidence...
Data Poisoning in Machine Learning: Why and How People Manipulate Training Data: Do you know where your data has been? The post Data Poisoning in Machine Learning: Why and How People Manipulate Training Data appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Prompt Engineering Guide 2026: It is 2026, and in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs) surrounding our workflow, prompt engineering is something you must master. Prompt engineering represents the art and science of crafting effe...

Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune: Musk's legal team argues he should be compensated as an early startup investor who sees returns "many orders of magnitude greater" than his initial in...
Getting Started with Strands Agents: In recent times, if you have been delving into the development of AI, then you may have come across the term ‘agent frameworks.’ Today, we are going t...
A Geometric Method to Spot Hallucinations Without an LLM Judge: Imagine a flock of birds in flight. There’s no leader. No central command. Each bird aligns with its neighbors—matching direction, adjusting speed, ma...
Google AI Releases MedGemma&1.5: The Latest Update to their Open Medical AI Models for Developers: Google Research has expanded its Health AI Developer Foundations program (HAI-DEF) with the release of MedGemma-1.5. The model is released as open sta...