Have you heard these exciting AI news? - January 16, 2026 AI Updates Weekly

Have you heard these exciting AI news? - January 16, 2026 AI Updates Weekly
Presented by Lev Selector

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--------- Contents of today's video:

00:00 Hot Area - Agent Memory Systems
00:38 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard
02:23 Top LLM Vendors
02:45 Open Source Models
03:30 Nvidia Hardware Progress
04:58 High-Flyer 56.6% Returns
06:31 Cline - Skills, Background edits, Web Search
10:06 HINDSIGHT Agent Memory System
11:00 Confucius SDK (Meta and Harvard)
12:01 Google Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)
13:15 Sakana AI Paper on Self-Improving AI
14:31 Buying a Humanoid Robot ?
15:36 Demystifying evals for AI agents (Anthropic)
16:02 Meta Nuclear Power for AI
16:33 DeepSeek V4 planned mid-February
17:27 SurfSense Open Source Notebook
18:02 Apple Picked Gemini for Siri
18:28 Pentagon to integrate Grok AI
19:24 Google Pomelli creates static and animated posts
19:58 Unlock "Infinite" AI Memory With Claude Code
20:40 Claude Co-Work Desktop AI agent
21:46 Google MedGemma 1.5 & MedASR Open Source
22:36 Anthropic Labs
23:03 Pocket TTS 100M-params text-to-speech model
23:17 AI Solves Math Problems
23:56 MiroThinker v1.5 Deep Research
24:41 MIT's new Adaptive Radix Tree (ART)
25:15 Merge Labs raised 252 Mln
25:47 Gemini Personal Intelligence
26:23 OpenAI and Cerebras 3-year Deal
26:56 Openwork desktop AI coworker
27:27 Fine-tuning cause severe misalignment
27:48 Auto-Claude - autonomous multi-session AI coding
28:06 Claude Code: What Power Users Actually Do?
29:58 Claude Code MCP Tool Search
30:43 Google Anti-gravity Updates
31:30 Why Memory Prices Are So High?
32:59 Nvidia StarCloud-1 Satellite
33:29 Elon Musk's 5 Year Vision
34:32 Jobs - Demand for AI Engineer
35:27 Sam Altman - Best Time Ever
36:09 How to get promoted quickly
37:05 Jobs, Layoffs, demand for AI Engineers

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Takeaways:

1. Agent memory systems are a hot area with major providers developing new approaches like HINDSIGHT and Confucius SDK that separate different types of memory and load skills on demand to reduce token usage.

2. AI coding tools are rapidly evolving with features like background edits, web search, and skills that load on demand, making autonomous multi-session coding increasingly practical.

3. Big tech companies are making massive infrastructure investments including Meta's 10+ billion dollar nuclear power deal and OpenAI's 10 billion dollar partnership with Cerebras for faster inference.

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Quotes:

"It was a very busy week but not many big new fundamental models, instead a lot of new tools or new options in the existing tools."

"Engineers who get promoted quickly proactively identify and solve business problems before they become formal projects."

"Sergey Brin admits he is hiring tons of workers without degrees. They just figured things out on their own."

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Summary:

In this weekly AI updates talk I cover the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

The week focused more on practical tools than new models.

Key topics include agent memory systems like HINDSIGHT and Confucius SDK, Cline's new skills and background edits features, Google's Universal Commerce Protocol for AI shopping, and major business deals like Meta's nuclear power agreement and OpenAI-Cerebras partnership.

I also discuss open source models from China, Nvidia's hardware progress, medical AI with MedGemma, and career advice for AI engineers including how to get promoted by proactively solving business problems.

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Keywords:
agent memory, LLM leaderboard, Cline skills, HINDSIGHT, Confucius SDK, Google UCP, Nvidia, DeepSeek, Claude Code, MedGemma, Anthropic Labs, OpenAI Cerebras, open source models, AI coding, MCP tools, AI jobs, nuclear power AI