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January 26, 2026
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A team gave AI a kind of “inner voice” so it can spot its own confusion and fix itself mid-thought. Also, AI is getting better at predicting the weather than physics!?
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AI INSIGHTS
A group of researchers just dropped a framework that gives AI something like metacognition, aka the ability to think about its own thinking.
It doesn’t make AIs conscious (let’s chill), but it does give them tools to detect confusion, evaluate confidence, decide when to slow down and rethink an answer.
You can think of it as a five-part sensor system that lets LLMs assess their own reasoning as they go. The five dimensions it tracks:
Confidence – How sure am I?
Conflict detection – Am I contradicting myself?
Experience matching – Have I seen this before?
Emotional awareness – Is this emotionally loaded content?
Problem importance – Is this worth slowing down for?
These become part of a “metacognitive state vector”, a set of internal signals that tell the AI when to shift gears from fast guessing (System 1) to deeper reasoning (System 2).
Instead of black box “because I said so” answers, we get explainable steps like “I chose this strategy because I was 92% confident and saw no internal conflict.”
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
📊 Claude for Excel now opened to Pro users. It handles multi-sheets, keeps memory, and won’t overwrite your stuff. We’ll test it & report back. Watch it in action here.
⚙️ Also, Claude just got interactive apps. Slack, Figma, Canva,... all work inside the chat (like OpenAI’s Apps system). You can activate the tools at claude.ai/directory.
⚡️ Krea AI launched real-time photo editing. You can tweak images instantly, no need to wait any second or re-render from start. See its demo or join the waitlist here.
🚨 Founder of vibe coding startup Anything is hiring “vibe coders”, who build real apps just by chatting with AI. No resume, just reply to his post for more details.
🎙️ OpenAI’s Sam is hosting first AI Builder Town Hall tomorrow, livestreamed on YouTube. Type your questions inside his post and he'll answer as many as he can!
⚙️ Microsoft unveiled its Maia 200 AI chip with 30% faster at almost the same cost. Now rolling out in U.S. data centers, powering Copilot and internal AI teams.
💰 Big AI Fundraising: Synthesia raised $200M, backed by Nvidia and Alphabet's GV. ARR just hit $150M. Its new AI agents let users interact with training videos.
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AI BREAKTHROUGH
At the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting in Houston, NVIDIA released Earth-2, a fully open-source suite of AI-powered weather models, libraries, and frameworks. Here’s how Earth-2 works:
It uses public Earth observation data (from satellites, weather balloons, stations)
AI converts that chaotic data into smooth, continuous estimates of atmospheric state
So who’s this aimed at? Basically everyone who cares about climate risk: Farmers, wildfire response teams, insurance analysts, flight planners. They’re calling it the first complete accelerated AI stack for weather forecasting.
This puts NVIDIA directly up against Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, each building their own AI weather models. And it raises serious questions about what happens next.
Why now? Federal funding for traditional forecasting is drying up. The public systems that have supported farmers, insurers, and emergency planners for decades are under pressure.
So NVIDIA’s stepping in with AI. NVIDIA claims they now outperform physics-based models for short-term precipitation.
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