The Daily Index — Tuesday, December 23, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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AI SDK 6

Vercel's AI SDK is the leading TypeScript toolkit for building AI applications. It provides a unified API that allows developers to integrate with any AI provider. The SDK enables developers to build everything from chatbots to complex background agents. Version 6 introduces agents, tool execution approval, DevTools, full MCP support, reranking, image editing, and more.

vercel.com · 12 min

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TRAINING THE IDEA MUSCLE

Riley Walz is known for his many creative projects. He always has over 50 ideas in his backlog at any point, so there's always something for him to do. Walz only works on ideas he thinks are fun. If you reject your own ideas, the part of the brain that comes up with ideas is going to stop. Making your ideas a reality again and again is the only way to generate better ones over time. There's no such thing as an impossible idea.

sfalexandria.com · 13 min

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12 PREDICTIONS FOR 2026

This post contains 12 predictions for 2026 from a venture capitalist. 2026 will be the year enterprises productionize AI. It will be a record year for liquidity, though AI budgets will receive scrutiny for the first time. Labs will stop competing on every frontier as Google distances itself from competitors. Cloudflare will become the gatekeeper for agentic payments.

tomtunguz.com · 5 min

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PARAMOUNT RENEWS BID FOR WARNER BROS, ENSURING $40B LARRY ELLISON BACKING

Larry Ellison has agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4 billion of the equity financing for the offer and any damages claims against Paramount.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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CLAUDE CODE SEES LIKE A SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

Claude Code shipped native Language Server Protocol support last week, enabling the IDE to actually understand code.

davegriffith.substack.com · 10 min

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NVIDIA'S BIGGEST SOUTHEAST ASIAN PARTNER DOGGED BY CHINA CHIP SMUGGLING QUESTIONS

Singapore-based AI firm Megaspeed has evolved into the single largest Southeast Asian buyer of Nvidia's chips in less than three years.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 28 min

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THE REVOLUTION OF RISING EXPECTATIONS

The combination of Rising Expectations and the perception of Rising Requirements has left an entire generation defining 'success' as something almost no one achieves, while also treating 'success' as something one needs in order to start a family.

thezvi.substack.com · 25 min

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ALPHABET TO BUY INTERSECT FOR $4.75 BILLION AS AI-INVESTMENT PLANS GROW

The deal will help address the near-insatiable demand for energy to power the AI expansion.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 3 min

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THE IPV4 ADDRESS SWAMP: THE NEW NORMAL

The instability in address/reputation pairing has implications for how well security threat mitigation services can perform.

blog.apnic.net · 18 min