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In today’s Daily Report:
🫧Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries, Explained.
🔮AI’s Shift From Wow to Workflow?
📍AI Tier Tracker
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
Read Time: 3 minutes
🗞RECENT NEWS
🫧Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries, Explained.
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Google recently announced a global commercial partnership with Energy Dome to deploy “CO2 Batteries,” presenting another potential solution for AI’s 24/7 power problem.
Key Details:
CO2 stores energy by being “squished” (i.e., compressed) and “released” (i.e., expanded). This enables electricity to be captured when it’s abundant and generated when it’s needed.
The concept behind the “CO2 Battery” is straightforward. Excess renewable energy from the sun and wind is used to compress CO2 into liquid form. The heat created during compression is saved.
When electricity is needed, the saved heat is used to warm the liquid CO2 so it expands back into gas form and spins a turboexpander that produces energy to power data centers.
Why It’s Important:
Energy Dome aims to provide electricity-guzzling data centers with round-the-clock renewable energy, even when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.
It returns about 75% of the energy put in, doesn’t lose performance over 30 years, and can continuously supply electricity for up to 24 hours. More importantly, it’s roughly 50% cheaper than lithium-ion battery farms optimized for utility-scale storage.
MICROSOFT
🔮AI’s Shift From Wow to Workflow?
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published “Looking Ahead to 2026,” sharing his outlook on AI’s transition from “spectacle” to “substance.”
Key Details:
He believes AI’s shifting from discovery to diffusion, where the “aha!” moments matter less and the practical applications matter more. In other words, it’s all about how AI can improve society at scale.
This transition mirrors historical patterns across technological advancements. Consider electricity: the initial thrill was generating power, but the real transformation came when it diffused into homes, factories, and warehouses.
Nadella also referenced a famous quote from legendary entrepreneur Steve Jobs: “Computers are like bicycles for the mind.” Just like bicycles amplify a human’s physical ability to travel faster, AI amplifies a human’s mental ability to make decisions faster.
Why It’s Important:
“We’ll evolve from models to systems when it comes to deploying AI for real-world impact,” Nadella added. In other words, companies must develop full systems around multiple models to manage, integrate, and orchestrate AI effectively.
He framed AI as a “socio-technical test”: it challenges society’s willingness to trust it, and that trust is earned through delivering concrete, measurable, and observable outcomes.
THE STOCK MARKET
📍AI Tier Tracker
TIER 0: ENERGY Vistra Corp. |
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TIER 1: SILICON Arm Holdings Plc. |
TIER 2: DATA CENTERS WhiteFiber, Inc. |
TIER 3: AI MODELS Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. |
TIER 4: SOFTWARE STACK MongoDB, Inc. |
TIER 5: AI AGENTS ServiceNow, Inc. |
🔔CLOSING BELL: As of 12/31/2025 market close.
💡STOCK SPOTLIGHT: Each tier showcases a new stock every day.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
🗣️TranslateAI translates e-commerce product catalogs.
🔍Jarts.io gets your brand seen in ChatGPT and Gemini.
🧠IconBrain creates professional-quality icons in seconds.
👀Prodely turns chaotic discovery into structured decisions.
📕BeFreed provides personalized audio learning for anything!
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🥪BRIEF BITES
Alibaba Group developed “MAI-UI,” which autonomously controls your smartphone to tap, type, swipe, scroll, drag, and drop on your behalf.
The MIT Media Lab developed “The Scientific Sandbox,” a new computational framework that simulates how eyes evolve to design better sensors for robots.
Waymo reportedly plans to integrate a Gemini-powered AI assistant into their self-driving cars to control the cabin’s climate and manage the music library.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
Vibranium Labs raised a $4.6M Seed Round to resolve IT incidents.
Lucidean secured an $18M Seed Round for data center optical links.
Vyriad closed an $85M Series B for clinical-stage genetic therapies.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
📒FINAL NOTE
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