🦞$10 AI Agents, Cooling Jobs, and Claude’s 14.5‐Hour Coding Run

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🟣 Sunday Special - Your AI Events, Learning, and Career Briefing

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Each Sunday, we cut through the noise to surface the AI signals that actually matter for builders, operators, and career-minded professionals. This week: $10 Raspberry Pi boards power local AI agents, hiring cools across key sectors, and Claude Opus 4.6 pushes coding endurance to new limits.

Inside this issue:

Featured Spotlight: PicoClaw turns Raspberry Pi into always-on autonomous agents
New This Week: Labor market softens in tech and transport, wages hold firm
Builder Calls: Opus 4.6 sets a 14.5-hour real-world coding endurance record

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Featured Spotlight

Raspberry Pi becomes an AI agent hub — PicoClaw turns $10 hardware into autonomous workers

PicoClaw, the Raspberry‑Pi‑optimized version of OpenClaw, is turning ultra‑cheap hardware into fully autonomous local agents. Builders are now running inbox triage, content generation, and background workflows on Pi Zero 2s and Pi 4s — all offline, private, and without cloud latency or API bills.

Why it matters

• Raspberry Pi becomes a viable always‑on AI node

• Local agents reduce dependency on cloud‑metered compute

• Privacy‑preserving automation becomes accessible to anyone

👉 Explore PicoClaw (Raspberry Pi agents)

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AI Events

For builders and operators who want exposure to applied AI, infrastructure, and real-world systems.

📌 AI & Automation Conference | London | Feb 25, 2026
Practical AI and automation strategies for business efficiency and digital transformation.

📌 Generative AI Summit | Austin | Feb 25, 2026
Advanced AI workflows, agent building, and real-world deployment insights.

📌 Secure by Design: Securing AI | Virtual | Feb 24, 2026
Google Cloud session on AI security, threat mitigation, and secure architecture.

📌 Build & Scale AI Agents: From Prototype to Production | Virtual | Feb 24, 2026
Hands-on workshop on moving AI agents from prototype to production.

📌 Introduction to Codex by OpenAI | Virtual | Feb 27, 2026
Beginner livestream on AI-assisted coding and developer workflows.

📌 Healthcare AI Summit | New York, NY | Feb 26 – 27, 2026
Legal, regulatory, and compliance insights for AI in healthcare.

New This Week

Hiring cools across key sectors — but wage signals tell a different Story

Indeed's Q4 2025 data shows a decline in U.S. job postings in transportation, retail, and tech, with tech 30% below 2019 levels. B2B and healthcare exceed pre-pandemic levels. Despite reduced hiring, wage growth in driving, retail, software development, and most B2B roles remains strong.

Why it matters

• Job postings are weakening in cyclical sectors like tech and transportation

• Wage growth in select roles still outpaces the overall labor market

• Healthcare demand remains structurally stronger than other industries

• B2B categories show resilience above pre-pandemic levels

👉 What to do now: Prioritize skill portability and industries with durable wage growth before broader hiring softness deepens.

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• How to scale with AI without losing humanity

• Where to invest for the best return in 2026

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AI Learning Opportunities

For professionals building fluency, not just familiarity.

🎓 [Beginner] AWS SimuLearn: Create an AI Smart Assistant
Hands-on labs to build and deploy an intelligent assistant on AWS.

🎓 [Intermediate] Multi A2A: The Agent2Agent Protocol
Standardize communication across AI agents for collaborative workflows.

🎓 [Beginner–Intermediate] Create and Publish Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Create and publish intelligent agents using low-code tools.

🎓 [Intermediate] AI for Healthcare Systems Specialization
Apply AI to clinical decision support and operational optimization.

🎓 [Advanced] Building Scalable Agentic Systems
Design and scale production-grade autonomous AI systems.

 Builder Calls

Claude Opus 4.6 sets record 14.5‑hour endurance on real‑world coding tasks

METR reports that Claude Opus 4.6 reached a 14.5‑hour “50% time horizon” on complex software tasks like implementing protocols and hunting deep bugs — the highest point estimate ever recorded. While the metric has wide confidence intervals due to benchmark saturation, it still signals rapid gains in long‑form reasoning and model stamina across real engineering workloads.

👉 Source: METR’s 

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AI Career Opportunities

These roles show demand shifting toward people who can ship production AI systems, own end-to-end products, and keep large-scale AI infra reliable.

For engineers, product leaders, and designers working close to the metal.

👩‍💻 Senior Product Manager – AI | Hybrid, US
Own strategy and execution of AI products at scale.

👩‍💻 Senior Generative AI Engineer | Remote, Texas
Build and deploy enterprise-grade generative AI systems.

👩‍💻 Software Engineer – Codex Cloud | San Francisco & Seattle
Develop cloud AI coding agents for modern dev workflows.

👩‍💻 Senior Data Center Operations Technician | Memphis, TN / Southaven, MS
Maintain uptime across large-scale AI infrastructure.

👩‍💻 Cloud Solution Architect – Data & AI | Remote
Design and deliver Azure AI solutions end-to-end.

👩‍💻 Member of Technical Staff – Copilot Data & Insights | Hybrid, New York
Build pipelines powering adaptive AI intelligence.

✨ Final Note

Keep building. Keep exploring.
One new idea every week and the future gets more interesting.

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