I’m sitting here in watching the snow start to stick, and I realized something strange. I don’t have the "Sunday Scaries" anymore. You know that pit in your stomach around 6:00 PM when you realize the weekend is dead and the inbox is alive? It’s gone.

It’s not because I love my job (though I do); it’s because the definition of a "work week" has completely dissolved over the last two years. We used to have distinct starts and stops. Now, our AI agents handle the Monday morning scheduling mess while we sleep. The anxiety of "catching up" is vanishing because the tech is finally doing what it promised a decade ago: managing the mundane.

This week is going to be loud. We have massive hardware rumors out of Cupertino and a legislative showdown in Brussels that could change how we use open-source code. So, grab your coffee. Let’s get you ready for the week.

TL;DR: Apple is likely dropping the "Air" version of the Vision headset, Brussels is coming for open-source AI, and we’re teaching you how to build a personal "Search Agent" so you never have to Google a recipe again.

We’re looking at a heavy events calendar. Here is where the industry’s eyes will be focused.

Event: The AI Safety & Alignment Summit (Virtual) The narrative: This used to be a niche academic gathering, but after the GPT-6 scare last month, every CTO from Microsoft to Meta is tuning in. The focus is specifically on "agentic boundaries"—basically, keeping our autonomous bots from spending all our money. Why it matters: If you run automated ad-spend agents, new regulations discussed here could cap your autonomous budget by Q3.

Event: Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: Part 2 (Seoul/Livestream) The narrative: They teased the folding tablet in early January, but the industry rumor mill says Wednesday is when they reveal the price and the release date. Why it matters: If they can get the form factor right under $1,500, the traditional laptop market is in trouble. This is the first real challenge to the iPad Pro's dominance in the creative sector.

Event: MIT FinTech Conference (Cambridge, MA) The narrative: Normally, I’d skip this, but the roster includes the new SEC Chair and the CEO of Coinbase. They are expected to debut the framework for the "Digital Dollar" pilot program around 2:00 PM ET. Why it matters: This is the bridge between "crypto as a casino" and "crypto as currency." If you work in banking or hold assets, this keynote is mandatory viewing.

Event: SaaStr Winter (San Francisco, CA) The narrative: It’s the smaller, colder cousin of the main event, but it’s where the seed rounds happen. The buzz this year isn’t about growth at all costs; it’s about "profitability per employee." Why it matters: Investors are looking for lean teams leveraging massive compute. If you are fundraising, watch the panel on "The 3-Person Unicorn."

1. Apple's "Vision Air" Enters Mass Production The biggest noise this week is coming from Cupertino. Supply chain leaks via Bloomberg suggest mass production has started on a lighter, cheaper mixed-reality headset. If the "Vision Air" is real and hits that sub-$2,000 price point, spatial computing might finally leave the living room and enter the coffee shop. Read the rumor analysis here.

2. OpenAI’s "Organizational Memory" Beta While Apple looks at hardware, OpenAI is looking at your email. They are rolling out the beta for their "Organizational Memory" feature. It allows the AI to recall context from emails sent three years ago without you searching for them. It’s incredibly useful and absolutely terrifying for privacy advocates. View the feature breakdown.

3. EU vs. WorldCoin: The Verdict The European Union is expected to drop a heavy fine on WorldCoin this Wednesday. The issue isn't the crypto; it's the iris data. This ruling will set the precedent for biometric data usage for the rest of the decade. Expect a sharp volatility spike in WLD tokens. See the legal filing.

4. X Goes "Verified Only" X (formerly Twitter) is testing a "verified only" viewing mode in New Zealand and Canada. If implemented globally, free users might lose visibility on major threads. It’s a desperate cash grab, but it might actually clean up the bot problem that has plagued the platform since '24. Read Musk's statement.

5. TikTok’s Final Appeal TikTok’s US holding company is in court again on Thursday, appealing the divestiture deadline. The market expects a stay of execution, keeping the app alive through the summer, but advertisers are already building contingency plans on YouTube Shorts. Follow the court case.

6. Nvidia’s "Quiet" Briefing Nvidia is quietly briefing partners on the H-300 successors. The stock might wobble on Tuesday as analysts try to price in reported manufacturing delays at TSMC. If you trade semi-conductors, keep your eye on the tape Tuesday morning. Read the analyst note.

7. Raspberry Pi’s AI Board Don't ignore the little guys; Raspberry Pi is launching a new AI-focused board on Friday that costs less than a tank of gas but can run local LLMs. It’s a massive win for the hobbyist community and creates a low-cost entry point for home automation. Check the specs.

8. Tesla FSD v14 Rollout We have to talk about Tesla. The Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14 update is rolling out to the wider fleet this week. This is the "end-to-end neural net" version that removes almost all hard-coded rules. Expect YouTube to be flooded with reaction videos—both good and bad. Watch the demo.

9. Netflix x Roblox In a weird twist, Netflix is rumored to be partnering with Roblox to build immersive watch parties. It sounds silly until you realize that’s where the entire Gen Alpha demographic hangs out. This is a play for the next generation of subscribers. Read the partnership leak.

10. The Death of the Password Google announced that 90% of active accounts are now exclusively using Passkeys. This week, they are deprecating the option for standard passwords on new Workspace accounts. It’s the end of an era, and frankly, good riddance. Security blog post.

We all drown in information. This week, instead of just reading news, I want you to build a system that filters it. We’re going to set up a basic "News Nuke" using an RSS aggregator and a local LLM.

Step 1: The Aggregation Start by grabbing an aggregator that supports OPML export—Feedly or Inoreader work best. Curate your sources ruthlessly. If a feed hasn't sparked joy in a month, kill it.

Step 2: The Export Next, you’re going to export that OPML file. This file contains the DNA of your information diet.

Step 3: The Local Brain Here is the trick: We aren't just reading; we are summarizing. Download a local LLM runner like LM Studio or Ollama. These allow you to run powerful AI models on your own laptop without sending data to the cloud.

Step 4: The Prompt Feed your RSS text exports into the context window with a specific prompt: "Identify the three widely agreed-upon facts and the two biggest points of disagreement in this text." This changes how you consume media. Instead of reading ten articles about the Apple headset, you read one summary that highlights the conflict.

Step 5: The Habit Finally, schedule a script to do this every morning at 7:00 AM. By the time you wake up, you have the synthesis, not the noise. You stop reading for information and start reading for insight.

The Challenger Tragedy (January 28, 1986) Forty years ago this week, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into flight. It remains a harrowing reminder of "normalization of deviance"—the engineering concept where small flaws are accepted until they cause catastrophe. In the age of rushing AI products to market, the lesson of the O-ring is more relevant than ever.

The iPad’s Debut (January 27, 2010) Steve Jobs sat in a comfy chair on stage and showed us a giant iPhone. The tech press mocked it. "It’s just a big iPod Touch," they said. They were wrong. It decimated the netbook industry and created a new form factor for computing. It reminds us that the "vocal minority" on tech Twitter usually misses the forest for the trees.

The Facebook IPO Filing (February 1, 2012) Just edging into next week, this was the moment social media became a serious business. Before this, it was a college project gone wild. After this, the algorithm changed to prioritize engagement and revenue, fundamentally altering how humans interact online. We are still living in the blast radius of that S-1 filing.

Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully stored a digital copy of The Wizard of Oz inside a strand of synthetic DNA. Not on a chip, but in biological material. If we can scale this, all the data in the entire world could fit inside a shoebox of DNA vials. The read/write speeds are incredibly slow, so you won't be booting Windows from a petri dish soon, but for archival storage, biology is beating silicon. Read the research paper here.