The New York Stock Exchange is building a new digital trading platform using blockchain technology to allow for around-the-clock trading of tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds. The platform will launch later this year, pending regulatory approval. It will allow for new types of investor accessibility and create new opportunities for retail to participate in stablecoin-funded markets. The digital infrastructure will allow trades to be funded and settled in real-time without the current one-day delay.
2026.01.20·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR 2026.01.20·links.tldrnewsletter.com·10 min read·TLDR 2026.01.20·thoughtleadership.forrester.com·TLDR Sponsored
75% of leaders believe that AI is overly focused on individual productivity, creating siloes and hurting collaboration. What's the
2026.01.20·thoughtleadership.forrester.com·Sponsor·TLDR No amount of brilliant UX, go-to-market strategy, or engineering can make customers adopt a product whose core AI task doesn't solve their job to be done.
2026.01.20·nicolasbustamante.com·15 min read·TLDR AI isn't competent enough yet to program in COBOL, and keeping code compliant remains a tough challenge.
2026.01.20·news.ycombinator.com·TLDR A recent change removes the blue background around sponsored results.
2026.01.20·9to5mac.com·1 min read·TLDR As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [24].
AI agents are massive slop machines if you turn off your brain and let go immediately.
2026.01.20·lucumr.pocoo.org·12 min read·TLDR Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says Meta was crowding out the ecosystem and that recent studio shutdowns and layoffs will be a good thing for the long-term health of the VR industry.
2026.01.20·uploadvr.com·6 min read·TLDR The change will reduce the chance of customers getting counterfeits from Amazon when buying from a reliable seller.
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2026.01.19·advertise.tldr.tech·Sponsor·TLDR OpenAI plans to start testing ads in the US for Free and Go tier users in the coming weeks. Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users will not see ads. The Go tier is a new $8 per month subscription with access to GPT-5.2 Thinking. Ads will not influence the answers that ChatGPT provides and will always be separated and clearly labeled. Conversations will be kept private from advertisers. A screenshot of what the ads will look like is available in the article.
2026.01.19·simonwillison.net·2 min read·TLDR Elon Musk wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion as he claims OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft. The court filing says Musk is entitled to a chunk of OpenAI's current $500 billion valuation as he donated $38 million in seed money when he helped found the startup in 2015. Musk also plans to seek punitive damages and possibly an injunction. OpenAI claims the lawsuit is baseless and is aimed at harassment.
2026.01.19·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab, got the news that he had cancer on November 18, 2022. He underwent a brutal care regimen that involved surgical removal of his tumorous vertebrae and rounds of radiation and chemotherapy so intense that he required four blood transfusions to stay alive. After his cancer resurfaced in 2024, he decided to go 'founder mode' on his cancer, assembling a team to navigate his care journey. This article details the story of how he took charge of his health.
2026.01.19·centuryofbio.com·52 min read·TLDR While the humanoid form factor is likely to stay due to its clear advantages, that doesn't mean that robots will still stay human. Boston Dynamics' Atlas is an interesting look at a very different vision of what a humanoid robot can and should be. Robots don't have to be limited to what evolution resulted in. They can be engineered to have capabilities that far exceed humans.
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Files represent personal creations, so they should live somewhere users control. File systems allow data to outlive the software used to create it. Other apps are able to open the same files to read or write data, and it's up to the users' choice on what app to use. This is analogous to how the AT protocol (the protocol behind Bluesky and other social apps) works.
2026.01.19·overreacted.io·42 min read·TLDR This article details how a developer created an image-to-ASCII renderer. The resulting renderer converts 3D models and still images into ASCII. The renderer is interactive, and you can move the 3D models around by dragging. The post is detailed and contains many interactive examples explaining the work.
2026.01.19·alexharri.com·42 min read·TLDR We're hiring the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team. You'll build production AI agents and design modular, composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [14].
Agents have improved over the last year due to structures that provide them with automated feedback and allow them to work on longer-horizon tasks. This back pressure allows agents to identify mistakes, and the feedback helps them align on tasks for much longer. Developers should think about how to build back pressure into their workflows. Afterwards, they can loop agents until they have stamped out all of the inconsistencies and issues.
Prediction markets let people wager on basically anything. These sites have recently boomed in popularity and are creeping into the mainstream. They are transforming news into a form of gambling. It is unclear whether these sites are meaningful predictors of anything, but the markets are manipulable.
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This post discusses Brex's culture, how it facilitated an aggressive shift towards a culture of AI fluency, and how Brex modernized its tech stack and applied AI agents to streamline its business.
2026.01.19·latent.space·92 min read·TLDR Increased productivity means there's more that you could be doing.
2026.01.19·notes.philippdubach.com·2 min read·TLDR jQuery 4.0.0 is the first major version release in almost 10 years and includes some breaking changes.
2026.01.19·links.tldrnewsletter.com·20 min read·TLDR Tesla plans to iterate rapidly, aiming for a nine-month design cycle.
2026.01.19·teslarati.com·2 min read·TLDR Developers should define the rules LLMs operate under instead of rejecting and blocking them.
2026.01.19·writings.hongminhee.org·18 min read·TLDR Most companies are bad at ops, and this is becoming clear as AI adds more chaos to systems already defined by chaos.
2026.01.19·charity.wtf·14 min read·TLDR OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs. Merge Labs is dedicated to bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability. It intends to develop entirely new technologies that connect with neurons using molecules instead of electrodes to transmit and receive information using deep-reaching modalities like ultrasound. OpenAI believes that brain-computer interfaces will create a natural, human-centered way for anyone to seamlessly interact with AI.
2026.01.16·techcrunch.com·5 min read·TLDR TSMC's CEO recently told Apple executives that they would need to acquiesce to the largest price rise in years. Apple once held a dominant position on TSMC's customer list, but it is now fighting for production capacity. Its chip designs are no longer guaranteed a place among TSMC's almost two dozen fabs. TSMC's largest client is now likely Nvidia.
2026.01.16·culpium.com·11 min read·TLDR Tesla's massive lithium refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, has officially started production. The company has released a new video, available in the article, showing off the new site. Tesla's process is acid-free and produces a benign co-product that can be used in concrete mixes. The process is more sustainable than traditional methods and eliminates hazardous byproducts.
2026.01.16·electrek.co·4 min read·TLDR Four astronauts returned to Earth early after one of the crew members encountered an unspecified medical issue last week. They splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 08:41 UTC on January 15. Officials have not identified whose health was in question or what was afflicting the ailing crew member. The medical issue did not appear to affect the crew's return to Earth, and they exited the spacecraft appearing in good health and good spirits.
2026.01.16·arstechnica.com·6 min read·TLDR Open Responses is an open-source spec for building multi-provider, interoperable LLM interfaces on top of the original OpenAI Responses API. It is multi-provider by default and extensible without fragmentation. Useful for real-world workflows, Open Responses can be used to build agentic systems without rewriting the stack for every model. Examples of projects built with Open Responses are available in the thread.
2026.01.16·threadreaderapp.com·2 min read·TLDR The staff engineering job isn't for everyone. It is totally fine to stay at Senior or move into management. It's worth considering a path toward Staff, as it is a fulfilling role. This post takes a look at what it takes to get promoted to Staff and what the role entails.
2026.01.16·hawksley.org·17 min read·TLDR The barriers to video creation collapsed in the 2000s when everyone got a camera in their pocket and platforms like YouTube changed what could qualify as entertainment. YouTube has now evolved into a media ecosystem where it is as common for entertainment to come from independent creators as from traditional broadcasters. Software is following the same path. AI has massively democratized leverage and productivity for creative people.
2026.01.16·links.tldrnewsletter.com·7 min read·TLDR The US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil. Taiwanese chip and technology companies will invest at least $250 billion in production capacity in the US. The Taiwanese government will guarantee $250 billion in credit for these companies. The US will limit tariffs in Taiwan to 15% and commit to zero tariffs on generic pharmaceuticals, their ingredients, aircraft components, and some natural resources.
The price of time and labor has changed, and the software stack is getting rebundled.
2026.01.16·davefriedman.substack.com·9 min read·TLDR You want to be strategic about where you spend your credibility.
2026.01.16·lalitm.com·14 min read·TLDR AI can help you get things done faster than ever, and you can experiment with more than ever, but outsourcing your thinking can hurt you in the long run.
2026.01.16·jakub.kr·10 min read·TLDR While Claude can build genuinely impressive architectures, it can't tell when something looks wrong.
2026.01.16·benji.org·4 min read·TLDR Apple's Gemini deal is comparatively conservative compared to other companies' AI spending.
2026.01.16·macrumors.com·2 min read·TLDR A look at how to build a multi-tenant platform where users have customization, ownership, and the freedom to build out what they want.
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At least three of the most valuable and highest-profile tech companies are currently preparing to list their shares on the public market. Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX have all taken early steps to go public. Any of these companies would be among the most valuable ever to go public. The listings could create an enormous bonanza for Wall Street, which has seen a slump in IPOs since 2021.
2026.01.15·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR Tesla will stop selling its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software for a flat rate and instead only offer it as a monthly subscription after February 14. The feature will start at $99 per month. It was previously priced at a one-time payment of $8,000. The technology still requires a human driver at the wheel ready to steer or brake at any time.
SpaceX has announced plans for a potential uncrewed mission to Mars as early as late 2026. The proposed schedule coincides with a rare planetary alignment between Earth and Mars that offers a narrow but valuable launch opportunity. Several core technologies essential to deep space travel remain in development. Starship Version 3 is expected to debut this year. It will feature upgrades that may prove pivotal to long-duration missions beyond Earth orbit.