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Welcome to January 12, 2026

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Google ships the Universal Commerce Protocol: an open standard for agents to negotiate and transact across a whole shopping journey. The corpus has been recording agents buying things; this is the first time the plumbing is built for them rather than borrowed from humans.

Linus Torvalds vibe-coding with Antigravity is the same story on the other side of the stack — manual syntax becoming optional for the person who wrote the Linux kernel.

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