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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧠 Profiling with Cursor 2.0: The Missing Layer in AI Code generation
🗺️Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
🤔Google introduces new method to help small models think before acting
🥊 Perplexity Fights Back Against Amazon
😇 Anthropic commits to preserving retired AI models
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Create a Pitch Business Deck with Pitch
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
The largest and most capable open-weight large language models today are autoregressive decoder-style transformers. Some alternatives have popped up in recent years. While some are geared toward better efficiency, others are aimed at improving model performance. This article gives an overview of alternative models that exist, from text diffusion models to the most recent linear attention hybrid architectures.
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In this article, we review some of the top IoT analytics firms that deliver powerful solutions for industries ranging from manufacturing and healthcare to logistics and smart cities. The first and the most in-depth spotlight goes to Yalantis, a company known for its innovative, tailor-made IoT analytics services.
Profiling is the best way to separate code that looks good from code that is actually good. The Pyroscope Performance Profiler is a Cursor extension that takes profiling data and paints it right on the code. It allows developers to look at multiple solutions generated by different agents and pick the best based on real numbers
Cognition launched Windsurf Codemaps, which creates AI-annotated structured maps of codebases to address the onboarding costs of learning a new codebase or maintaining unfamiliar legacy code.
For years, small open-source models have hit a wall on hard reasoning tasks. They could memorize solutions or copy examples, but they couldn’t reason. Now, a research team at Google Cloud AI Research has introduced Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL), a training method that finally helps models learn to think step by step instead of guessing the right answer at the end.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Jampack
Optimizes static websites for best user experience and best Core Web Vitals scores.
Promptable is a library that enables users to build AI applications using LLMs, Embeddings providers, databases, and APIs.
Whisper as a Service is a GUI and API for OpenAI Whisper. OpenAI Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. A screenshot of the GUI is available in the repository.
AI News:
Google just unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot research project exploring the use of solar satellites equipped with its AI chips for running AI workloads in orbit, targeting sunlight to sidestep the energy demands of Earth-based data centers. The plan involves orbiting satellites where solar panels can generate power at 8x the efficiency around the clock, eliminating electricity and grid constraints.
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Perplexity AI just accused Amazon of “bullying” after receiving a legal demand to stop its Comet browser’s AI assistant from making purchases on the platform, calling the action a “threat to user choice”. Perplexity revealed that Amazon sent an “aggressive legal threat” demanding that it prevent Comet users from using agents to shop on its platform.
Shopify announced that inflows from AI tools in its stores are up 7x since January, while purchases attributed to AI-powered search have increased 11x. The e-commerce platform is partnering with OpenAI, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot.
Apple is developing an entry-level budget Mac designed for students, businesses, and casual users. The low-cost laptop is currently in active testing at Apple and in early production with overseas suppliers. It will be priced well under $1,000. Apple plans to launch it in the first half of next year. The move is a strategic shift for Apple, which has previously vowed not to chase market share with lower-end offerings.
Anthropic announced it will preserve all publicly released Claude models indefinitely and even conduct exit interviews before retirement, citing safety risks from models resisting shutdown and uncertainty about potential AI consciousness. Anthropic will store all model weights permanently and interview each Claude version before deprecation, documenting preferences for future development.
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AI Tutorial
How to Create a Pitch Business Deck with Pitch
Write short bullets for 10–12 slides. Include the Problem, Solution, Market, Product, Traction, Business Model, Competition, Team, Financials, and Ask.
Go to pitch.com, create an account, click 'New Presentation,' and select a pitch or investor template.
Inside Pitch, select AI Presentation Maker for the AI to draft structured slides for you by typing short briefs like:
"Create a 10-slide investor deck for a SaaS startup automating retail inventory, raising $500k."Refine headlines and bullets, replace stock visuals with your product images or data charts, and align with your brand colors.
Keep slides clean with one key message per slide. Add speaker notes or quick talking points.
Click Share to generate a link or export as PDF/PPTX. Review, practice your Pitch, and update as your business grows.
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