🛎️ The First AI Shock of 2026
Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!
The AI era is no longer about model demos or adoption curves, but about who absorbs the disruption — users, companies, or entire professions — first.
AGENTS
Agent Skills Shock the AI Industry in 2026
👀 What’s happening: Agent Skills became the first true breakout of 2026. They turned agents from chat interfaces into executable workers by packaging professional SOPs into loadable skills. This removed prompt rewriting, reduced token waste, and let agents act immediately. That shift made agents feel useful overnight.
🌍 How this hits reality: The jump was not incremental. Skills solved the last mile problem of action. Once workflows became reusable artifacts, agents scaled by copying logic, not retraining models. Tens of thousands of skills now circulate across tools, APIs, and SaaS stacks, blurring lines between products, roles, and industries.
🛎️ Key takeaway: Agent Skills reset the AI trajectory. Models fade into infrastructure while execution layers explode. If momentum holds, 2026 becomes the year value concentrates around skills, tools, and intent execution rather than apps or interfaces.
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Gemini Enterprise Users Are Angry
👀 What’s happening: Gemini usage is exploding at the infrastructure layer. API calls more than doubled in five months from 35 billion to 85 billion after Gemini 2.5 shipped, forcing Google to reshuffle compute capacity. Developers are clearly adopting the models. At the same time, Google’s packaged enterprise products show uneven traction and inconsistent daily use.
🌍 How this hits reality: This split reveals Google’s priorities. Most visible energy sits on consumer facing AI and model reach, not enterprise workflows. Eight million enterprise seats sound large, but satisfaction is mixed and usage shallow. Many customers skip Gemini Enterprise entirely and build custom tools on the API instead.
🛎️ Key takeaway: Google looks comfortable winning mindshare with consumers and developers, while letting enterprise customers fend for themselves. If this pattern holds, Gemini strengthens Google Cloud usage but leaves Google without a credible enterprise AI product layer.
CODING
Dario Warns Software Engineering Could Vanish Within 6–12 Months
👀 What’s happening: At Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could finish "most, maybe all" software engineering within six to twelve months. This was not a joke. Anthropic recently shipped Claude Cowork with all code written by Claude Code, leaving engineers to review, guide, and approve outputs.
🌍 How this hits reality: That shift lands as vibe coding collapses creation time. Cursor is now under pressure from Lovable, which turns product building into pure prompts and templates. When one operator ships features in hours, team based velocity assumptions break across SaaS, sofewares, and IT.
🛎️ Key takeaway: Traditional software engineers face a hard fork. Either adapt into model orchestrators, reviewers, and system owners, or die. The middle ground disappears fast, and waiting is the riskiest option.
QUICK HITS
- Nvidia’s report finds AI rapidly moving from pilots to real operations in retail, with openness and lower inference costs seen as key to scaling adoption.
- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he was surprised by OpenAI’s early move to test ads in ChatGPT, questioning whether ads fit the AI assistant model.
- Google has launched free SAT practice exams powered by Gemini, offering AI-based testing, analysis, and explanations for students.
- Microsoft plans to build 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, with local officials advancing approval and little opposition.
- ElevenLabs released an AI-generated album to promote its music generator and show how artists can use AI while retaining full ownership and revenue.
TRENDING
Daily AI Launches
- ChartGen AI has launched a tool for marketers to instantly visualize ad data (FB, TikTok) and optimize budgets using AI.
- Crustdata has launched a high-speed Web Search API for AI agents, featuring real-time filtering and deep research capabilities.
- Callum has launched an AI assistant for Google Calendar that handles complex team scheduling via natural language and CRM integrations.
- LocateStore has launched a no-code tool that transforms Google Sheets into embeddable, auto-syncing store locator maps.
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