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- 🚀 Anthropic launches low-cost Claude Haiku 4.5
🚀 Anthropic launches low-cost Claude Haiku 4.5
🦾Plus: 💻 Apple announced its M5 chip
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
💼Applications of Data Science in Business
📈Scaling Request Logging from Millions to Billions
🧠Geometric Deep Learning
⚠️AI Agent Evaluation: 5 Lessons Learned The Hard Way
🎬 Google’s upgraded Veo 3.1 video model
🧪 Google’s Gemma-based AI finds new cancer treatment
💡 AI Tutorial:How to edit images with Nano Banana in Search
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Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, the smallest variant of its latest model family that delivers performance comparable to the company’s flagship model from just months ago for significantly reduced prices and upgraded speeds. The new model matches Claude Sonnet 4's coding abilities from May while charging just $1 per million input tokens versus Sonnet's $3 pricing.
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As the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models continues to progress and evolve, it is becoming essential to manage them through dedicated technical platforms and model hubs such as Verta, a platform that notably offers the ModelOps option.
How we solved request logging at scale by moving from MariaDB to ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector after our deprecated database engine couldn’t keep up with billions of monthly requests…
As companion material to the release of our (proto-)book on Geometric Deep Learning, we have curated a series of blog posts. These blogs present a “digest” version of the key ideas covered by our work, as well as insight into how these ideas developed historically…
The unique CI/CD challenge for AI agents, as we quickly found out, is that they are non-deterministic. In other words, the same input can produce two different outputs. This means a traditional CI/CD framework leveraging tests with explicitly defined outputs doesn’t work for agentic systems…So we rethought CI/CD for agents from first principles.
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Google just rolled out Veo 3.1, a new video generation model that claims quality improvements, better realism, upgraded image-to-video capabilities, and a series of new editing features directed at filmmakers and creative control. Veo 3.1 now accepts up to three reference images to maintain character consistency across scenes.
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Apple announced its M5 chip, featuring AI-focused upgrades including specialized processors to make AI tasks 4x faster across its product lines. M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core, a more powerful CPU, a faster Neural Engine, and higher unified memory bandwidth
Japan’s government formally urged OpenAI to cease using copyrighted manga and anime imagery, accusing the company of allowing widespread infringement through its video app Sora. Minoru Kiuchi, Japan’s minister overseeing intellectual property strategy, called the artforms “irreplaceable treasures” and confirmed a Cabinet Office ask for OpenAI to halt unauthorized content generation.
Google and Yale University researchers introduced C2S-Scale 27B, a foundation model — based on Google’s open-Gemma family — that discovered a previously unknown cancer treatment pathway, proven to work in living cells. The C2S AI system reads cellular data like a language, capturing how individual cells will behave and respond to treatments.
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AI Tutorial
How to edit images with Nano Banana in Search
Google is rolling out its Nano Banana model in Search, allowing you to transform photos using Lens and AI Mode.
Tap the new Create mode — look for the yellow banana
Pick one of Google’s suggested prompts, like “make a photo booth pic of me.”
Or, take a photo and describe the edits you want.
Use follow-ups to keep editing, or share your creation with family and friends.
*Notes:
This feature is available in English in the U.S. and India, with more countries and languages coming soon.
Those who prefer not to take selfies can use the rear-facing camera or select an existing photo from the gallery to visualize ideas, such as a Halloween costume for a pet.
You can now also create entirely new images from scratch directly in AI Mode. Just select the “Create image” tool and add a text prompt.
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