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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧠 Top Data Scientist Skills You’ll Need in 2026
💻Software Engineering in 2026
⚛️How Good Is AI at Coding React (Really)?
❓Top 24 LLM questions asked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta
🧠Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots
💰 SoftBank buys DigitalBridge for $4B
💡 AI Tutorial:Perform real-time market research using Grok
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
AI will likely make 24/7 on-call a thing of the past. 24/7 monitoring is a lot simpler than the development process. There are often reference documents that engineers can follow to bring systems back up, and if they fail, there's always a backup and recovery plan in place. On-call jobs have always been more systematic. This post introduces an autonomous monitoring agent that does what an on-call engineer would do, but autonomously, forever.
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Since 2012, the data scientist’s role has grown by over 650%, and by 2026, there will be 11.5 million jobs in this field. The field has become more lucrative than before, painting an optimistic picture for the jobs in 2021 and beyond.
The software engineering field will broadly become more mechanized and more productive. The primary impact of LLM tooling, so far, is that the marginal cost (both in terms of time and dollars) of producing high quality code has gone down significantly. Of course, producing code is only part of the full job of software engineering, so the bottlenecks for engineering time will shift elsewhere.
AI models excel at isolated React tasks, but don't do as well on multi-step integrations. AI coding benchmarks show models excel at isolated React tasks like scaffolding components or implementing explicit specs, achieving ~40% success in benchmarks, but drops to ~25% on multi-step integrations due to a “complexity cliff” in state management and design taste
In 2025, we saw a huge number of job descriptions asking for experience in LLMs. The same requirement was reflected in interviews, with candidates being asked LLM-specific questions.
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axe-api
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docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
AI News:
Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has bought Manus, a Singapore-based startup owned by Beijing Butterfly Effect Technology,that makes a popular artificial intelligence (AI) agent. This move comes as Meta pushes to turn its big AI investments into real business results. The financial terms of the deal were not shared.
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The scarcity of these treasured artworks has helped drive their prices, in exceptional cases, to thin-air heights, without moving in lockstep with other asset classes.
The contemporary and post war segments have even outpaced the S&P 500 overall since 1995.*
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Chinese researchers have created an artificial robotic skin that can sense pressure and locate input and injuries. The neuromorphic robotic e-skin (NRE-skin) is assembled from a collection of segments that snap together using magnetic interlocks, automatically linking up any necessary wiring.
Samsung has partnered with Google to bring Google Photos directly to its AI TV lineup, launching in 2026 as the first TVs to support Google Photos' Memories feature on the big screen. The integration will transform Samsung TVs into oversized digital frames that showcase curated photo stories organized by people, places, and moments.
SoftBank has agreed to acquire DigitalBridge for $4 billion, marking a major move into AI infrastructure. DigitalBridge manages about $108 billion in assets and focuses on digital infrastructure investments.
Notion is working on a major overhaul with dedicated tabs for AI chats, pages, and inbox in the sidebar. The early access program includes AI credits, usage tracking, and internal models with codenames like "Gingerbread Oreo Cheesecake."
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AI Tutorial
🧪 Perform real-time market research using Grok
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to track Twitter trends and news stories from the last 24 hours with xAI's Grok, then automate daily research memos in Notion using Make for any trend or competitor.
Step-by-step:
Copy the Notion Database Template, then go to console.x.ai, create an API key, and fund your xAI account with at least $5
Download the Make blueprint file, log in to Make.com, create a new scenario, click the three dots → Import Blueprint, upload the JSON file, and save
Connect accounts: click the xAI Module 2 and add your API key, then click the Notion Module 3 and authorize access to your page from step 1
Set up the webhook: copy the webhook URL from Make's Webhook Module 1, go to Notion, click the lightning bolt → "Webhook trigger on new," replace the URL, and set it to trigger when Status = "Start Research"
Test by creating a new database row, filling out Research Topic, Date, Industry/Competitor, and Sources, then setting Status to "Start Research”
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