Daily AI Recap: Jan 18, 2026

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

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A Coding Guide to Understanding How Retries Trigger Failure Cascades in RPC and Event-Driven Architectures: In this tutorial, we build a hands-on comparison between a synchronous RPC-based system and an asynchronous event-driven architecture to understand how real distributed systems behave under load and f...
Top 100 Data Science Interview Questions and Answers (2026 Edition): Imagine stepping into your first data science interview—your palms are sweaty, your mind racing, and then… you get a question you actually know the answer to. That’s the power of preparation. With dat...
Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT: Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising....
Why Healthcare Leads in Knowledge Graphs: How science, regulation, collaboration, and public funding shaped the world’s most mature semantic infrastructure The post Why Healthcare Leads in Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Towards Data Scien...
AI for human agency: How AI can expand human agency by closing the capability overhang—helping people, businesses, and countries unlock real productivity, growth, and opportunity....

NVIDIA Releases PersonaPlex-7B-v1: A Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Model Designed for Natural and Full-Duplex Conversations: NVIDIA Researchers released PersonaPlex-7B-v1, a full duplex speech to speech conversational model that targets natural voice interactions with precis...
The Hidden Opportunity in AI Workflow Automation with n8n for Low-Tech Companies: How to use n8n with multimodal AI and optimisation tools to help companies with low data maturity accelerate their digital transformation. The post Th...
Vercel Releases Agent Skills: A Package Manager For AI Coding Agents With 10 Years of React and Next.js Optimisation Rules: Vercel has released agent-skills, a collection of skills that turns best practice playbooks into reusable skills for AI coding agents. The project fol...
8 Types of Environments in AI: Just as you wouldn’t teach a child to ride a bike on a busy highway, AI agents need controlled environments to learn and improve. The environment shap...
The Future We Choose: Building a Balanced Global Economy in the Age of AI and Robotics: A deep exploration of how artificial intelligence, open AI technologies, and robotics can reshape the global economy. This article outlines strategies...