šŸ¤– Alibaba launches Qwen3-Coder, an agentic coding model

🦾Plus: šŸ—ļø OpenAI & Oracle fuel Stargate

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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

  • šŸ”How Data Scientists Add Value to Business

  • āš ļø 10 Mistakes That Secretly Ruin ML Projects

  • šŸ’»Vibecoding a high performance system

  • ⚔ How NVIDIA Fixed Pandas Bottlenecks

  • šŸ Amazon acquires AI wearable startup

  • šŸ“¢ Trump to finally unveil AI plan?

  • šŸ—³ļø Meta Rejects EU AI Pact

  • šŸ’” AI Tutorial:How to summarize YouTube videos with Perplexity Comet

  • šŸ¤– AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Alibaba’s Qwen announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we’re excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct — a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B active parameters which supports the context length of 256K tokens natively and 1M tokens with extrapolation methods, offering exceptional performance in both coding and agentic tasks.

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Data science is a field that revolves around gaining insights from data, both structured and unstructured. A data scientist uses mathematical, statistical, and other scientific methods and computer algorithms to analyze big data and extract knowledge from it.

This article outlines 10 critical mistakes that, if not identified and addressed properly, could derail machine learning projects — sometimes in subtle and hard-to-detect ways. The list spans the different stages of a machine learning lifecycle, from goal setting to deployed system maintenance.

This developer recently used agentic coding to build a system to crawl a billion web pages in around 24 hours. Less than 4% of the code was written by hand. The post discusses how AI helped code the tool and where it fell short. AI was a huge boost during the development process. Some of the learnings from this project could also apply to building other high-performance systems.

This blogpost by NVIDIA discusses how to speed up slow pandas workflows using GPU with cuDF. You’ll see faster stock analysis, text processing, and dashboard filtering, and learn how to handle datasets larger than GPU memory.

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šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Data Tools, Libraries

any-agent (GitHub Repo)

any-agent is a Python library that provides a single interface for evaluating different agent frameworks. It can be used to create and evaluate agents, implement and use custom callbacks, integrate Model Context Protocol tools.

Spin (GitHub Repo)

Spin is a framework for building, deploying, and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly. It offers a simple command-line interface for creating, distributing, and executing applications.

AI News:

OpenAI has confirmed it’s signed a $30B deal with Oracle for its data center services and disclosed details about the contract, which are related to Stargate—The $500B data-center-building project. Project Stargate is a joint venture by OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank to invest up to $500B in AI infrastructure, and OpenAI’s deal with Oracle will give the project 4.5GW of data center capacity (enough to power 4M homes).

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Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that makes a $50 AI-powered wearable wristband that continuously records conversations for daily summaries, insights, and reminders. The Fitbit-style device records and transcribes conversations throughout the day, generating daily digests, to-do lists, and recommendations via its app.

President Trump is reportedly about to unveil his long-awaited AI strategy for ā€œwinning the AI raceā€ at a summit in Washington, D.C. According to insider reports, the White House will publish a 20-page, high-level document that will focus on three key pillars: Infrastructure, Innovation, and Global Influence.

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 šŸ—³ļø Meta Rejects EU AI Pact

Meta has decided not to join the EU’s voluntary code of practice for general-purpose AI models, arguing the guidelines add confusion and overreach beyond the AI Act. The EU sees the code as a way to smooth the transition before new AI laws take effect on August 2nd.

Google DeepMind recently used table tennis as a testbed for its technology, as the sport requires robots to master a confluence of difficult skills - it requires perception and demands exceptionally precise control.

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AI Tutorial

How to summarize YouTube videos with Perplexity Comet

  • Open Perplexity Comet (download if you haven’t), go to YouTube, and open the video URL.

  • Open Comet Assistant on the right-hand side of the browser.

  • Ask Comet Assistant to provide you with a brief summary of the video.

Sample Prompt: Summarize this YouTube video in clear, bullet-point takeaways for someone who doesn’t have time to watch it. Focus on the key insights, structure, and any actionable ideas. Make it easy to scan and understand in under 1 minute.

  • You’ll get a detailed summary of your video within seconds.

  • Comet can help you get quick answers, summaries, translations, and more—right from the page you’re on.

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šŸ”„Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

  1. Cococlip.AI - All-in-One AI Video Tool for everything you need for video creation in one place

  2. What the Product is a Chrome extension Simplify your product research with key insights

  3. AI Undetect is a platform that provides free AI detection and humanization of AI text

  4. iAsk.Ai is an advanced, free AI search engine that allows users to ask questions and receive instant, answers

  5. COUNT is an AI-driven accounting software that simplifies accounting

  6. Ai colors - AI-powered color palette generator.

  7. Notta is an AI-based voice-to-text transcription service that supports 104 languages, providing high accuracy

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