Interesting overview by Sapphire Ventures of AI companies that are attacking the drug development stack potentially replacing services spend. Some interesting companies called out hear and not all Sapphire portfolio companies.
Evidence is lacking that AI leads to productivity growth. Via the Register. https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/forrester_ai_jobs_impact/
I decided to try hosting an ai model locally. It’s easier than you think and doesn’t require more than a typical PC. Of course, the more powerful the PC the faster the model operates. I initially hosted the model on my laptop. The benefits of hosting a model locally is that you use open source models rather than commercial versions that charge. And your chats are private. No data is
Need to create content for your training initiatives? Here are the latest tools that have been added in the past month to the training development ai tools tracker. Alai – Create high quality presentations with AI – https://getalai.com/ Clik – Edit video through conversation. Upload your footage, describe the story you want to tell, and get a video edit back in seconds. Make finishing touches through conversation, traditional timeline edits,
I completely missed Anthropic introducing Claude Skills in October 2025. Skills is a folder of files containing instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed to perform tasks in a repeatable way. For example, instructions on how to create graphics for your eLearning storyboards or how to extract data from a report and add it to a reporting dashboard. Simon Willison explains skills in this excellent post –
From Lea Leu on Medium …If your AI touches the EU market in any way, you’re covered. Anytime an EU user consumes your product, you’re accountable. Read more – https://medium.com/@lea.leumassart/is-your-ai-system-illegal-in-the-eu-heres-how-to-check-b92e2a5fb739
Would you like to bridge ai with your learning record store that stores your xAPI data? You’ll want to take a look at the LearnMCP-xAPI server. Using this along with your LRS, you can securely use natural language to describe learning activities and translate them into compliant xAPI statements, store the statements in an LRS, and query the stored experiences in the LRS to build new experiences and address needs.
This list of ai tools was started by @Brandon Carson a few years ago and shared here. I’ve continued to add ai tools to the list and have now created a searchable/filterable web app for it. You can also add ai tools you know about. Is this helpful? Let me know. I’ll be adding tool reviews to this as well. https://isdtools.softr.app
I was recently in a rideshare and the trip was taking a bit longer than it should. The driver apologized as he continuously looked at the navigation app on his mobile. I asked if the company had their own navigation app he used or if he used another map app? He said the company does have their own navigation app that he uses and they’ve been recently testing an ai
Survey of 25,000 workers across 7,000 workplaces (via boingboing)https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933