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🦾Plus: 🍽️Altman details OpenAI's trillion-dollar roadmap

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

  • 🤖Automations with n8n: A Self-Study Roadmap

  • 💡15 big ideas that will revolutionize industries

  • 📚RAG that Returns Exact Verbatim From Your Docs

  • 🤖Memory Layer for Coding Agents

  • 🛑 Anthropic gives Claude the power to ‘hang up’

  • 🦉 Duolingo CEO backtracks on AI?

  • 💡AI Tutorial:How to turn any document into a video presentation

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

n8n gets its name from "nodemation", combining "node" (for its visual node-based interface and Node.js foundation) with "automation." The founder, Jan Oberhauser, shortened it to n8n to make it easier to type, and today it's pronounced either en-eight-en or nodemation.

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A report by ARK Invest, an investment management firm specializing in disruptive innovation, predicts that further tech-led transformations are on the horizon, with artificial intelligence (AI) poised to spearhead this change.

Amazon launched Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, a fully managed service that centralizes tool discovery and integration for AI agents using MCP. Create MCP servers with no code, and this service abstracts away security, infrastructure, and protocol-level complexities, with built-in OAuth authorization.

Verbatim RAG only returns exact text from your documents - no paraphrasing, no creative liberties, just pure verbatim content with citations. Unlike traditional RAG that lets LLMs freely generate answers based on retrieved context, this pipeline extracts exact text spans from source documents and composes responses entirely from these precise passages.

Coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and VS Code plugins have a major limitation: they forget everything between sessions. Cipher is an opensource memory layer specifically designed for coding agents. Compatible with Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, AWS's Kiro, VS Code, and Roo Code through MCP, and coding agents, such as Kimi K2.

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

LLRT (GitHub Repo)

Low Latency Runtime (LLRT) is a JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.

LocalSend
An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.

tokamak
Server-side framework for Zig, relying heavily on dependency injection.

wirequery
Capture, explore, and analyze data flowing in and out of your applications - without compromising confidentiality.

AI News:

OpenAI hosted reporters from outlets including TechCrunch and The Verge over dinner, speaking on topics from GPT-5’s reception to the company’s plans for social media, consumer hardware, and a potential Chrome acquisition.Altman said he “legitimately just thought we screwed that up” on 4o’s removal, with GPT-5 focused on warmer responses while not being sycophantic.

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Experts returning from China warn the U.S. grid may not be able to support AI’s rapid growth.China treats electricity as a solved problem, while U.S. grids face critical strain. AI’s power demand could add $6.7T in global data center costs by 2030.U.S. infrastructure delays contrast with China’s long-term overbuilding strategy.

Anthropic just equipped Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 with the ability to end chats believed to be harmful/abusive as part of the company’s research on model wellness, marking one of the first AI welfare deployments in consumer chatbots.The end chat feature will trigger after Claude’s redirections and productive engagement fails on content requested about minors, terrorism, or violence.

Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood. While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.”

A day after Reuters reported that Meta's AI rules permitted children to have "sensual" chats, a Republican senator launched an investigation into the tech giant.On Friday, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley posted a letter he sent to Mark Zuckerberg along with the announcement of the investigation.

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AI Tutorial

How to turn any document into a video presentation

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  • Go to NotebookLM and create a new notebook.

  • Upload your documents to the notebook.

  • In the Studio panel (right side), select ‘Video Overview.’

  • Click the three-dot menu to customize focus topics, target audience, or learning goals.

  • Review the generated video, then click Download to save it as an MP4.

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