January 8, 2026 AI-DIGEST BY MAURO SICARD
From Product Hunt
Product Hunt

A keyboard-first Mac browser, a massive Gemini prompt library, and a team AI workspace.

Flakes — Keyboard-first AI browser for macOS Vim-style navigation (h/j/k/l), command palette, link hints. Drift AI analyzes tabs for contextual answers. Native SwiftUI/WebKit, ad blocking, focus mode. Free, macOS 14+.
▲ 137 · flakes.ai
Awesome Gemini Prompts — 1,700+ Verified Prompts Open-source prompt hub for Gemini & Nano Banana. Categories: Coding Agents (450+), Creative Arts (320+), Logic (180+), Persona (240+). One-click export to Google AI Studio.
▲ 130 · awesomegeminiprompts.tech
Intrascope — Centralize your team's AI Unified interface for OpenAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, Anthropic, xAI. Custom Manifests for consistent AI behavior. E2E encryption. $299 one-time or $39/mo for 25 users.
▲ 111 · intrascope.app
From Reddit
r/singularity r/OpenAI r/LocalLLaMA r/artificial

Alphabet overtakes Apple, Anthropic raising massive funds, and LLMs learning to play poker.

Alphabet Overtakes Apple in Market Cap

Alphabet ($3.94T) surpasses Apple ($3.84T) for the first time since 2019, driven by Gemini 3 success and a 65% stock surge in 2025. Apple struggles with delayed Siri AI improvements, down 7% this month. Only NVIDIA ($4.5T) remains ahead.

cnbc.com · r/singularity
Anthropic Raising $10B at $350B Valuation One of the largest private AI fundraises ever. Valuation jumped from $183B in just four months. Signals growing investor confidence and AI IPO activity expected in 2026.
PokerBench — LLMs Play 21,000 Hands of Poker New benchmark testing GPT-5.2, GPT-5 Mini, Gemini 3 Pro/Flash, Opus 4.5, Grok 4.1. GPT-5 Mini has highest win rate (31.4%), but Gemini 3 Flash is most profitable (+$5,754).
Dialogue Tree Search — MCTS for LLM Conversations Parallel beam search exploring conversation trees to find optimal dialogue paths. Forks into user intent variants (skeptical, cooperative, confused). Useful for improving AI agent responses.
Torvalds: AI Slop Won't Be Solved by Documentation Bad actors won't disclose tool usage anyway. Prefers viewing AI as "just another tool." Real solution is technical review processes that work regardless of code origin.
From Reddit
r/StableDiffusion r/comfyui

LTX-2 just dropped — open-source audio-video AI that runs on consumer hardware. Plus Z.ai teasing something new.

LTX-2 Open-Sourced — CEO AMA

Lightricks releases production-ready audio-video AI model with full open-source package: weights, code, trainer, benchmarks, LoRAs. Runs on consumer GPUs. Community response: "You just changed open source video."

ltx.io · r/StableDiffusion
Z-image Omni — Alibaba's New Multimodal Model Z.ai teasing Z-image Omni via DiffSynth-Studio pull request. Community excited: "LTX-2 and this, we'll be busy this month."
Visual Camera Control for ComfyUI Interactive node for visual camera angle control. Works with Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Multiple-Angles LoRA. Intuitive widget for camera positioning without manual prompts.
From Reddit
r/selfhosted r/macapps

Privacy proxy for LLMs, self-hosted transcription with speaker diarization, and a notch-style PDF toolkit.

LLM-Shield — Privacy Proxy for Cloud LLMs Self-hosted proxy that masks PII before sending to OpenAI, restores in response. Detects names, emails, phones, credit cards across 24 languages. Route mode sends sensitive requests to local Ollama.
Speakr — Self-Hosted Otter.ai Alternative Audio transcription with speaker diarization. v0.8.0 adds OpenAI diarization (no GPU needed), REST API for n8n/Zapier. Can also run WhisperX locally.
dovi_convert — Dolby Vision Profile 7 to 8.1 Converts Blu-ray rips for streaming device compatibility. Fixes dark picture and flicker on Apple TV, Shield, Fire TV. Docker with web terminal. Preserves dynamic metadata.
PDF Notch — Notch-Style PDF Toolkit for Mac Menu bar PDF utility. Merge, split, OCR, compress. Fully offline, no cloud uploads. Fast drag-and-drop workflows.
flow — Terminal Kanban Board Keyboard-first Kanban in the terminal. Fast workflows, no context switching.