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- ✨Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5
✨Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5
🦾Plus: 🛍️ OpenAI is Launching a Shopping Research Tool
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🎓6 Career Possibilities With a Degree in AI and ML
🧠Build "Deep Agents" with Google ADK and Gemini 3 Pro
🤖Microsoft released Fara-7B Agentic model
🧩MCP Apps: Extending MCP servers with interactive UIs
🛰️ Amazon’s Launching its Starlink Competitor
💰 AWS is Spending $50Bn in U.S. Govt AI Infrastructure
💡 AI Tutorial:How to give your B2B support team superpowers with AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
The last of Anthropic’s 4.5 series of models has been released. Opus 4.5 follows the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. The new version of Opus has state-of-the-art performance on a range of benchmarks including coding, tool use, and general problem solving, and is the first model to score over 80% on SWE-Bench verified.
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If you’re uncertain about whether to study AI and ML, it’s worth pointing out that the career prospects for specialists in these fields are second to none. Here are just a few examples of how your academic knowledge can turn into a compelling career.
Google's Agent Development Kit now ships with "Deep Search," a full-stack reference implementation showing how to build agents that actually think through problems recursively. The workflow splits into human-collaborative planning (where you refine research goals together), followed by autonomous execution - the agent loops through searching, self-critiquing for gaps, and refining until it has enough data, then composes a comprehensive report with linked citations to all source material.
Microsoft released Fara-7B, an open-weight AI model that is compact enough to run directly on laptops and can autonomously navigate websites and complete tasks.
The Anthropic team is adding support for interactive user interfaces in MCP through a new standardized extension called MCP Apps, meaning AI agents can now show you rich visualizations, complex forms, and interactive tools instead of dumping raw JSON data in your chat.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
hl (GitHub Repo)
hl is a high-performance log viewer and processor that transforms logs in JSON and logfmt formats into a human-readable output.
Mojo-V (GitHub Repo)
Mojo-V is a new RISC-V extension that implements secret computation, enabling secure, efficient, and data-oblivious execution.
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AI News:
Online shopping is getting smarter. OpenAI announced a new tool called “shopping research” designed for ChatGPT users who are looking for detailed, well-researched shopping guides. The guides include top products, key differences between the products, and the latest information from retailers
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U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the DOE to build a unified AI platform, aiming to compress scientific discovery timelines from years to days for “challenges of national importance,” like biotech and energy. The initiative mobilizes 17 federal research facilities and their supercomputing infrastructure to train AI models on decades of government scientific data.
Move over, Starlink, there’s a new satellite internet provider in town. Amazon announced Leo Ultra, the first of its satellite internet service, which is launching in a private preview ahead of a commercial rollout sometime next year. Leo Ultra is made for “business and government customers,” unlike the other two, smaller Leo antenna options
Google is unifying ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop platform codenamed 'Aluminium OS'. Aluminium OS will feature deep integration with Gemini at the core. There is little information on what features Gemini will enable on Android PCs. Gemini already powers an array of on-device AI features on smartphones.
Amazon Web Services is really putting its money behind AI use in the U.S. government. AWS announced it’s investing $50 billion to build AI “high-performance computing infrastructure” purposefully for the U.S. government. The project will add 1.3 gigawatts of ccompute and expand government access to AWS AI services and products.
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