JANUARY 29, 2026

TODAY: First, some bad news. Amazon has announced 16,000 more jobs that'll be axed from the company, thanks largely to AI. Scientists are apparently taking this and other developments as a cue to move the dreaded "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight.

Fortunately, it's not all doom and gloom. Snow and ice are (slowly) melting, Jotform has a chatbot you can build right into your Canva designs, and we've got a whole slew of new prompts for you to try out and enjoy.

Also, I'll soon be announcing more details on a virtual seminar set for Feb. 18. If you'd like some AI training with a low student-to-teacher ratio, I hope you'll be able to join me. Stay tuned!

• PromptCraft: Prompts to Reduce Fluff, Get Brutal Honesty, Repurpose Content, and Grow Your Social Media Quicker
• THE HEADLINES: Scientists Move 'Doomsday Clock' Closer to Midnight, Citing AI; Clawdbot/Moltbot Unpacked; Amazon Axing 16,000 Jobs (Thanks Again, AI); OpenAI Launches Scientist Workspace 'Prism'; AI 'Dream Girls' Are Coming for Porn Stars' Jobs; Google Rolls Out AI Plus to All Markets
• Tool Spotlight: Bring Canva Designs to Life with an Embedded AI Chatbot

TRY THESE! Prompts to Reduce Fluff, Get Brutal Honesty, Repurpose Content, and Grow Your Social Media Quicker

• ​Brutally Honest Cofounder-Style Feedback Prompt: Introduces a persona prompt where ChatGPT becomes a “Brutally Honest Business Mirror,” explicitly told not to flatter but to challenge assumptions, expose weaknesses, and push for clearer thinking on ideas, plans, and positioning. (Reddit)
• ​Single Prompt for Weekly Content Repurposing: Shows a compact “Content Repurposer” instruction that takes one blog or note and turns it into platform-specific posts, threads, captions, and email blurbs in a consistent brand tone, replacing a whole manual weekly content workflow. (Reddit)
• ​Strategic Social Media Growth System Mega-Prompt: Presents a large “2026 Social Media Growth System” prompt that, given business details and bottlenecks, designs a multi-platform roadmap for content, engagement, and ROI tracking, with a separate free page providing examples and usage guidance. (Reddit)

HIGHLIGHTS: Scientists Move 'Doomsday Clock' Closer to Midnight, Citing AI; Clawdbot/Moltbot Unpacked; Amazon Axing 16,000 Jobs (Thanks Again, AI); OpenAI Launches Scientist Workspace 'Prism'; AI 'Dream Girls' Are Coming for Porn Stars' Jobs; Google Rolls Out AI Plus to All Markets

1. ​Scientists Move ‘Doomsday Clock’ Closer to Midnight Than Ever, Citing AI Among New Risks​
2. ​Samsung, SK Hynix Results to Showcase Fight for AI Memory Crown​
3. ​C3.AI in talks to merge with software company Automation Anywhere​
4. ​AI Is Transforming the Economy, Not Destroying It​
5. ​Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)​
6. ​Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency​
7. ​Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s 20,000-word essay on how AI ‘will test’ humanity is a must-read, but more for his remedies than his warnings​
8. ​Google’s more affordable AI Plus plan rolls out to all markets, including the US​
9. ​AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs​
10. ​Context Graphs Are a Trillion-Dollar Opportunity. But Who Actually Captures It?​
11. ​Introducing Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash​
12. ​SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI, source says​
13. ​OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists​
14. ​Big Tech earnings to test AI rally as resurgent Alphabet takes lead​
15. ​As AI wipes out desk jobs, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says the company is training 175,000 employees to ‘reinvent themselves’ before their roles change forever​
16. ​An Ancient Answer to AI-Generated Writing​
17. ​AI reveals 800 never-before-seen ‘cosmic anomalies’ in old Hubble images​
18. ​Free AI training for all, as government and industry programme expands to provide 10 million workers with key AI skills by 2030​

Bring Canva Designs to Life with an Embedded AI Chatbot

Jotform’s AI Chatbot for Canva lets you add an interactive chatbot directly into your Canva websites and designs—no coding, no clunky “link out” workarounds. You can style the chatbot to match your design (name, role, colors), then publish so visitors can ask questions and get instant answers right inside the asset.

One standout feature is auto-training: the chatbot can learn from the content in your design to respond more accurately, and you can extend it with deeper automations and integrations through Jotform’s AI Agent Builder (think lead capture, appointments, and workflows).

Learn More: Jotform AI Chatbot for Canva​

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