Daily AI Recap: Jan 30, 2026

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

• Why I’m (hopefully) never building another agent: Practical lessons from building AI agents at scale, from tool design and evals to UX, rollout strategy, and what’s next....
• Creating an Etch A Sketch App Using Python and Turtle: A beginner-friendly Python tutorial The post Creating an Etch A Sketch App Using Python and Turtle appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• Why Your Multi-Agent System is Failing: Escaping the 17x Error Trap of the “Bag of Agents”: Hard-won lessons on how to scale agentic systems without scaling the chaos, including a taxonomy of core agent types. The post Why Your Multi-Agent System is Failing: Escaping the 17x Error Trap of th...
• Last 24 hours to grab your +1 pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Today is the last day to lock in a +1 pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, happening on October 13-15 in San Francisco. Register here....
• Boston’s healthcare AI: Past changes and what’s next: Boston’s healthcare AI ecosystem has moved from cautious pilots to real-world impact. Here’s what’s changed, and what comes next....
• On the Possibility of Small Networks for Physics-Informed Learning: A new kind of hyperparameter study The post On the Possibility of Small Networks for Physics-Informed Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• BigID Concierge™ Extends Customer Teams to Deliver Faster Data and AI Results: New AI-assisted offering extends customer staff with hands-on BigID expertise, accelerating outcomes across data, security, and AI BigID, the leader in data security, privacy, and AI governance, today...
• Andesite Achieves Cloud Security Alliance AI-STAR Level 2 Certification: Andesite becomes the third company in the world to achieve the CSA AI-STAR Level 2 certification Andesite, the Human-AI SOC company, today announced that it has earned Level 2 certification under the ...
• The Five Skills I Actually Use Every Day as an AI PM (and How You Can Too): This post first appeared on Aman Khan’s AI Product Playbook newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Let me start with some honesty. When people ask me “Should I become a...
• Smart Communications Names Heidi Johnson Chief Product and Technology Officer: Former Bloomberg, Komodo Health, and Carta Executive Joins Smart Communications to Lead Global Innovation Strategy Simon Tindal to Retire from Smart Communications After Nearly Two Decades of Transfor...
• Multi-Attribute Decision Matrices, Done Right: How to structure decisions, identify efficient options, and avoid misleading value metrics The post Multi-Attribute Decision Matrices, Done Right appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• 5 Gemini Prompts for JEE Preparation: Hot take – just like the Internet era, Google is leading the AI revolution. While there are many AI solutions out there, almost none of them integrate with the daily lives of users as deeply as Google...
• 5 Biggest Hackathons of 2026 That You Can’t Miss: Another year, another opportunity. For the nerdy ones, this is the right time to participate in some of the best hackathons that are out there. With hosts like Google DeepMind, Kaggle and Fractal havi...
• Team Cymru released its Voice of Cybersecurity Strategist Report: Survey finds 50% experienced a major breach in the past year, with 72% saying threat hunting directly helped prevent or mitigate impact Team Cymru, the trusted intelligence partner to the world’s most...
• Intruder Grows Enterprise Customers by 81% as Part of Record 2025 Momentum: Achieved annual recurring revenue growth of 81% for the enterprise customer segment, driven by the release of major improvements to attack surface monitoring and a 2.5X increase in expansion revenue. ...
• QUARK: Robust Retrieval under Non-Faithful Queries via Query-Anchored Aggregation: arXiv:2601.21049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User queries in real-world retrieval are often non-faithful (noisy, incomplete, or distorted), causing retrievers to fail when key semantics are missin...
• Unplugging a Seemingly Sentient Machine Is the Rational Choice -- A Metaphysical Perspective: arXiv:2601.21016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imagine an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that perfectly mimics human emotion and begs for its continued existence. Is it morally permissible to unplug i...
• The Epistemic Planning Domain Definition Language: Official Guideline: arXiv:2601.20969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Epistemic planning extends (multi-agent) automated planning by making agents' knowledge and beliefs first-class aspects of the planning formalism. One ...
• Do LLMs Favor LLMs? Quantifying Interaction Effects in Peer Review: arXiv:2601.20920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There are increasing indications that LLMs are not only used for producing scientific papers, but also as part of the peer review process. In this work...
• Faster Predictive Coding Networks via Better Initialization: arXiv:2601.20895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research aimed at scaling up neuroscience inspired learning algorithms for neural networks is accelerating. Recently, a key research area has been the ...
• Is Parameter Isolation Better for Prompt-Based Continual Learning?: arXiv:2601.20894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt-based continual learning methods effectively mitigate catastrophic forgetting. However, most existing methods assign a fixed set of prompts to e...
• January 2026: LangChain Newsletter: Read about the latest product updates, events, and content from the LangChain team...

• Ant Group Releases LingBot-VLA, A Vision Language Action Foundation Model For Real World Robot Manipulation: How do you build a single vision language action model that can control many different dual arm robots in the real world? LingBot-VLA is Ant Group Rob...
• Rethinking LLM-Driven Heuristic Design: Generating Efficient and Specialized Solvers via Dynamics-Aware Optimization: arXiv:2601.20868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced the field of Combinatorial Optimization through automated ...
• Finetune-Informed Pretraining Boosts Downstream Performance: arXiv:2601.20884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal pretraining is effective for building general-purpose representations, but in many practic...
• A generative machine learning model for designing metal hydrides applied to hydrogen storage: arXiv:2601.20892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing new metal hydrides is a critical step toward efficient hydrogen storage in carbon-neutral ...
• Bayesian-LoRA: Probabilistic Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models: arXiv:2601.21003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models usually put more emphasis on accuracy and therefore, will guess even when not c...
• Iterate.ai Brings Agentic AI Workflows to Hospital Finances with New Solution: Generate for Healthcare is available on HPE’s AI infrastructure and through the TD SYNNEX Distribution Network Iterate.ai, along with TD SYNNEX, a lea...
• A Coding Deep Dive into Differentiable Computer Vision with Kornia Using Geometry Optimization, LoFTR Matching, and GPU Augmentations: We implement an advanced, end-to-end Kornia tutorial and demonstrate how modern, differentiable computer vision can be built entirely in PyTorch. We s...

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