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🤝 Mynd.ai & Q101 Foundation: North American Exclusive


Mynd.ai (MYND) finalized a strategic MOU as the exclusive North American partner for Open Quest Academy, integrating a Web3 content layer into 1M+ panels. This pivot to recurring revenue leverages Promethean’s install base to drive decentralized adoption. Shareholders can claim participation via q101.org, establishing a blockchain-verified credential ecosystem for education.

🎁 Q101 Airdrop: 1:10 Token Ratio & Cold Start Strategy


To bootstrap the ecosystem, Q101 Foundation launched a 1:10 utility token airdrop for Mynd.ai ADR holders recorded between Dec 24–31. This Web3-native "cold start" strategy aligns equity value with network effects, incentivizing immediate shareholder participation. The initiative solves early adoption hurdles for the decentralized marketplace by leveraging existing equity structures.

🏆 Sobot G2 Winter 2026: 7 Leader Badges & 18.9% Lift

Sobot earned 32 badges (7 Leader) in G2’s Winter 2026 reports, validating its "Five-AI" system across 252 categories. Client data confirms 90% higher retention and 18.9% engagement lift using Omnichannel and Scenario-Based pillars. This recognition solidifies Sobot’s leadership in delivering seamless, automated customer service solutions for enterprise-scale operations.

🧩 SLK (Altimetrik): GHC Insights & Smart Governance

SLK (Altimetrik) was named a "Major Contender" in Everest Group’s 2025 PEAK Matrix, highlighted by accelerators like AiWiz, GHC Insights, and Smart Data Governance. The assessment validates its competence in executing AI-native transformations across Banking and Insurance. These proprietary tools bridge legacy infrastructure with modern, scalable generative AI architectures.

🎨 Watsons Water: "Festive Fireworks" (430mL & 800mL)

Watsons Water debuted its "Hong Kong Landmark" series in 430mL and 800mL sizes (excluding 280mL), featuring GenAI "Festive Fireworks" designs. The "WE LOVE HK" contest runs until Feb 28, 2026, offering $500 vouchers via neural style transfer campaigns. This "phygital" push targets the Lunar New Year window, driving hyper-localized storytelling and consumer engagement.

📈 Cango Pivots to HPC: $500M Shelf & Valuation Gap

Greenridge Capital initiated a "Buy" rating on Cango with a $4.00 target, citing a $500M mixed shelf offering to fund its strategic "Energy+Compute" pivot. Trading at a compelling 7x EV/EBITDA valuation gap versus US peers at 12x, the thesis is backed by a 50 EH/s fleet, 50MW Georgia data center, and a robust $600M BTC HODL treasury.

TRENDING AI NEWS

🤝 ServiceNow Acquires Armis for $7.75B (NOW -2% on News)

ServiceNow signed a definitive agreement to acquire Armis for $7.75 billion in cash, a ~27% premium representing 23x ARR. The deal nets co-founders Dibrov and Izrael ~$465M each and includes a $350M Reverse Termination Fee. Shares fell ~2% on confirmation, stabilizing after a 12% plunge on the Dec 15 leak as markets digested the heavy capital outlay.

🏭 AI Demand Revives Obsolete 'Peaker' Power Plants

Reuters reports surging AI loads are forcing utilities to delay retirements of fossil-fuel peaker plants, citing PJM Interconnection data showing 60% (13 plants, incl. Brandon Shores & H.A. Wagner) of retirements deferred through May 2029. This shift drives capacity prices to a $333.44/MW-day cap and raises grid carbon intensity, complicating net-zero pledges and data-center permitting in grid-constrained regions.

🌏 Global Capital Rotates Into Chinese AI Stocks

Asset managers are reallocating capital toward Chinese AI leaders (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent), driven by a valuation gap between the Nasdaq-100 (~31x P/E) and Hang Seng Tech (~24x P/E). This "rotation trade" bets on Beijing’s push for tech independence and domestic compute resilience despite export controls, raising speculation risk in Asian tech markets.

🚫 Italy & EU Order Meta to Allow Rival AI Agents on WhatsApp

Italy’s AGCM ordered Meta to suspend terms blocking rival agents—specifically naming Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, and Poe—citing abuse of dominance. Simultaneously, the European Commission opened a parallel probe for the rest of the EEA. The interim measures enforce DMA Article 7 interoperability, suspending the Jan 15, 2026 policy update and opening WhatsApp’s 2B+ user base to third-party agents.

📉 Idle AI Clusters Risk Asset Write-Downs

 Breaking views warns that underutilized AI infrastructure risks becoming "stranded assets" under IAS 36 Impairment rules. Repurposing idle capacity for lower-yield scientific compute fails to justify valuations, potentially triggering non-cash write-downs. Rapid obsolescence of H100 clusters versus new Blackwell chips exacerbates balance sheet risks for tier-two providers.

📈 AI Capex and Profits Named 2026 Market Drivers

Morgan Stanley surveys identify corporate AI spending and "Revenue per Token" economics as primary catalysts for 2026 equity performance. The consensus shifts focus to software application layers, noting a 0.85 correlation between valuations and software revenue recognition. This decouples stock performance from pure hardware capex, predicting volatility if execution fails to match infrastructure spend.

📗 Book Summary: Invisible Cities
Author: Italo Calvino

🧠 Main Idea:
This poetic novel imagines a series of fantastical cities described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. Each city represents a different aspect of human experience—memory, desire, time, language, and identity—suggesting that cities are mirrors of the human mind.

🔍 Key Concepts:

  • Cities as Metaphors:
    Each city symbolizes emotions, ideas, or philosophical questions rather than physical places.

  • Memory & Desire:
    Some cities are built from remembrance; others from longing—showing how humans shape reality through perception.

  • Time & Change:
    Cities evolve, decay, repeat, or exist only in imagination, reflecting the impermanence of life.

  • Language & Meaning:
    Stories and descriptions shape understanding more than facts; meaning is created through narrative.

  • Multiplicity of Truths:
    There is no single “real” city—only interpretations shaped by experience.

🌱 Core Lessons:

  • Reality is filtered through perception and storytelling.

  • Places reveal who we are as much as where we are.

  • Meaning often lies in imagination rather than certainty.

  • Human experience is complex, layered, and symbolic.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    AI TOOLS

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