American Airlines CEO Robert Isom is facing mounting pressure as the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) has issued a unanimous vote of no confidence, citing the airline's declining performance. This comes after a challenging 2025 for the company, and amidst grumbling from another union, the Allied Pilots Association, according to Fortune.
Meanwhile, the expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across the United States is underway, with the agency planning to establish new offices in nearly every state. Federal records obtained by Wired revealed that ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been secretly expanding their physical presence through over 150 leases and office expansions. Many of these facilities are located near sensitive locations such as schools, medical offices, and places of worship. For example, in El Paso, Texas, the agency is moving into a large campus of buildings.
In the tech world, the potential of agentic AI continues to be a topic of discussion. While the hype surrounding agentic AI was high in 2025, deployment has lagged, according to VentureBeat. Contributing Editor Taryn Plumb reported that the fundamentals required to scale were missing.
A recent example of AI in action was the viral Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots. Launched on January 28, Moltbook allowed instances of the open-source LLM-powered agent OpenClaw to interact. However, MIT Technology Review questioned whether Moltbook was a glimpse into the future or something else entirely.
To aid in the development and demonstration of software created by coding agents, two new tools, Showboat and Rodney, have been released. These tools are designed to help agents test and showcase their work, addressing the challenge of demonstrating software progress, according to Hacker News. Showboat allows agents to build documents to demo their work, while Rodney is a CLI browser automation tool designed to work with Showboat.
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