AI News for Jan 18, 2026

Welcome to 'The Automated Daily', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: -Data poisoning campaign against AI -Open access, copyright, and AI -CLI tool to control Figma -Why AI coding tools stall -SwiftUI guidance boosts agents -AI reshapes science and careers -When AI increases total work -Removing AI to keep meaning -AI literacy push in schools - https://github.com/dannote/figma-use - https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/ - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09922-y - https://castiching.com/articles/why-no-ai - https://innolitics.com/articles/ai-native-engineering-trans