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

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Each Sunday, we round up the most relevant AI events, practical learning resources, and current job openings so you can plan your next moves with clarity. This issue focuses on OpenAI’s new Grove program for pre-idea founders, must-watch 2026 AI events, and the skills top companies like Google are hiring for right now

Inside this issue:

• A featured spotlight on how Claude Code’s creators actually use it.

• New: OpenAI Grove for pre‑idea AI founders, plus key 2026 AI events

• Curated AI roles and the core skills companies like Google expect in 2026.

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Featured Spotlight

🔍Claude Code: How Its Creators Use It

Boris Cherny, one of the creators of Claude Code at Anthropic, shared how he uses the tool in daily work.

The key point: Claude Code is designed to be useful without heavy setup and adaptable to individual workflows.

What this shows:

• Effective out of the box

• No required workflow or prompt style

• Designed for flexible, personal use

If you want AI projects in your portfolio, try this.

Build real AI and tech skills, faster

Udacity helps you build the AI and tech skills employers actually need—fast. Learn from industry experts through hands-on projects designed to mirror real-world work, not just theory.

Whether you’re advancing in your current role or preparing for what’s next, Udacity’s flexible, fully online courses let you learn on your schedule and apply new skills immediately. From AI and machine learning to data, programming, and cloud technologies, you’ll gain practical experience you can show, not just list on a résumé.

Build confidence, stay competitive, and move your career forward with AI and tech skills that are in demand.

Learn More

🗓️ AI Events

📌 CES 2026 | Las Vegas, NV | Jan 06 – 09, 2026
The world’s most influential tech event, where global leaders unveil breakthroughs in AI, consumer tech, mobility, health, and the future of business.

📌 Effortless AI Interface | Virtual | Jan 08, 2026 | 1:00 – 1:45 PM EST
Learn how to deploy and scale AI inference on GKE using proven architectures focused on performance and cost efficiency.

📌 AI in Healthcare Summit | Bellagio, Las Vegas, NV | Jan 15 – 16, 2026
A leading healthcare AI event exploring how AI is scaled across care delivery, operations, governance, and patient engagement through real-world case studies.

If you’re serious about AI-first CX, use this.

AI that actually handles customer service. Not just chat.

Most AI tools chat. Gladly actually resolves. Returns processed. Tickets routed. Orders tracked. FAQs answered. All while freeing up your team to focus on what matters most — building relationships. See the difference.

Find out how

New This Week

 🌱OpenAI Grove

OpenAI opened applications for OpenAI Grove, a small, in-person program for individuals at the pre-idea stage of AI company building.

Grove is not an accelerator and does not require a formed startup or product.

Program details:

• ~15 participants

• 5 weeks at OpenAI’s San Francisco HQ

• Workshops, office hours, and mentorship from OpenAI technical staff

• Early access to OpenAI tools and models

📅 Application deadline: January 12, 2026
📍 Location: San Francisco (in person)

📚AI Learning Opportunities

🎓 Essentials of Prompt Engineering
Learn zero-shot and few-shot prompting, best practices across models, and how to reduce bias and prompt risks.

🎓 Jupyter AI: Coding in Notebooks
Use AI directly inside Jupyter Notebooks to generate, debug, and explain code while building practical workflows.

🎓 Work Smarter with AI
Boost productivity by integrating AI tools across Microsoft 365 for automation, content creation, and daily workflows.

🎓 AI Security
Understand how to secure AI systems across development and deployment, with a focus on governance, privacy, and risk.

🎓 Introduction to ChatGPT for Small Businesses
A beginner-friendly guide showing how small businesses can use ChatGPT for marketing, communication, and everyday tasks.

 Infrastructure Signal

 🚥 Google TPU vs. NVIDIA

Supply‑chain reports show Google is ramping TPU v7 production for 2026, pushing Broadcom and MediaTek to expand capacity. MediaTek is reportedly handling Google’s v7e and v8e TPU programs, driving higher demand for TSMC’s advanced packaging.

Why it matters:

• TPUs compete with NVIDIA on cost + efficiency

• MediaTek is shifting toward cloud AI ASICs

• TPU designs move to 3nm → 2nm

• Custom AI chips now anchor hyperscaler strategy

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Why AI Isn’t Replacing Affiliate Marketing After All

“AI will make affiliate marketing irrelevant.”

Our research shows the opposite.

Shoppers use AI to explore options, but they trust creators, communities, and reviews before buying. With less than 10 percent clicking AI links, affiliate content now shapes both conversions and AI recommendations.

Download the full report

💼 AI Career Opportunities

👩‍💻 Partner AI Architect – Generative AI & AI Agents | Hybrid, US | Microsoft
Design and deliver partner-facing AI solutions that leverage generative models and intelligent agents to solve enterprise challenges.

👩‍💻 AI Adoption Manager | San Francisco | OpenAI
Help customers successfully integrate OpenAI tools into real-world workflows, driving adoption and business impact.

👩‍💻 AI Software Engineer | Remote, US
Build and deploy AI-driven applications from prototype to production, collaborating across engineering and product teams.

👩‍💻 Site Ops Manager | Memphis, TN | xAI
Oversee data center operations supporting large-scale AI compute infrastructure, ensuring uptime and reliability.

✨ Final Note

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

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