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🤖 5 Techniques for Efficient Long-Context RAG
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In today's edition: Allbirds became an AI company. Snap cut 1,000 jobs citing AI productivity. Adobe launched multi-app AI orchestration. And Musk told suppliers to move at "light speed" on chips.👇
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☁️Vercel open-sources a platform for cloud coding agents
🖥️ Gemini lands on Mac with native desktop app
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In this article, you will learn how to build efficient long-context retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using modern techniques that address attention limitations and cost challenges. Topics we will cover include: How reranking mitigates the “Lost in the Middle” problem., How context caching reduces latency and computational cost., How hybrid retrieval, metadata filtering, and query expansion improve relevance.
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The ChatGPT maker just shipped major updates to its Agents SDK, giving enterprises a safer way to deploy automated helpers. A fresh sandbox integration isolates agents within controlled workspaces, limiting their access to only the files and code they need. The SDK also gains an in-distribution harness for frontier models, which should help tackle those complex, multi-step jobs that have proven notoriously tricky to automate.
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The frontend cloud platform just unveiled Open Agents, a template for deploying coding agents that run indefinitely in the cloud. Built with their AI SDK and Sandbox tools, it allows teams to run hundreds of agents at once with zero timeouts or setup hassle.
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Why make shoes when you can make AI computing infrastructure? Shoe manufacturer Allbirds sold its intellectual property and other assets to American Exchange Group for $39 million last month. Now, it’s becoming NewBird AI and is raising up to $50 million in funding with expectations of closing in Q2.
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Google just rolled out a new Mac app for its Gemini assistant, giving the AI a native desktop chatbot experience, coming a year after rivals like ChatGPT and Claude made their moves. The app launches via Option+Space and offers screen-sharing, Drive and Photos file access, and Nano Banana image and Veo video generation.
Snap just announced layoffs of 1,000 employees representing 16% of its workforce, with CEO Evan Spiegel attributing the reduction to AI efficiency rather than shareholder pressure. Snap is swapping traditional teams for small AI-augmented pods, with the tech writing 65% of new code and fielding 1M+ monthly queries at the company.
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Elon Musk's Terafab team has reached out to chip industry suppliers for price quotes and delivery times for a variety of chipmaking gear. The outreach suggests Musk is continuing with the project in the face of scepticism from the semiconductor industry. Musk's representatives have asked for speedy price estimates while providing minimal information about the products to be made.
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How to generate invoices with AI in seconds
Go to Replit and sign up
Click the + button after logging in and select the ‘Invoice Generator Skill’
Ask it to generate your invoice, mention all the details
Sample Prompt: Create a $15,000 invoice for Prism Social Co. - launch video production, dark navy header, professional layout
Within seconds Replit agent will generate an invoice for you based on the given details
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