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In today's edition: Here's your must-read roundup of observability wins, HTML-native agents & health tech 👇
🗺️ Guide to Geospatial Data Engineering
🎥 Nous Research's Hermes Builds HTML-Native Videos
🐛 AI Load Crashes GitHub—Why Not Others?
📊 Claude Goes Live Across Microsoft 365
🗣️ OpenAI Unveiled 3 Audio Models For Real-Time Voice Tasks
🔬 Anthropic plans for AI that builds itself
💡 AI Tutorial:How to design email marketing campaigns with AI
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Posit has instrumented Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI with OpenTelemetry, and created tools for you to instrument your own packages, bringing production-grade observability to R…
Someone just spent $236,000,000 on a painting. Here’s why it matters for your wallet.
Late last year, a Klimt sold for the highest price ever paid for modern art at auction.
An outlier sure, but it wasn't a fluke. U.S. auction sales grew 23.1% in 2025. The $1-5mm segment even grew 40.8% YoY.
Meanwhile, Apollo’s chief economist Torsten Slock said to expect ‘zero in return in the S&P 500 over the coming decade.’
Each environment is unique, but after dot-com, post war and contemporary art grew about 24% annually for a decade. After 2008, about 11% for 12 years.
It’s also had near-zero correlation with the S&P 500 since ‘95.*
Now, Masterworks lets you invest in shares of artworks featuring legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso.
$1.3 billion invested across over 500 artworks.
28 sales to date.
Net annualized returns on sold works held 12 months+ like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8%.
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*Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. See important Reg A disclosures at masterworks.com/cd.
Geospatial data is a powerful tool that enables us to better understand our world with the power of location. In the geospatial field, we like to say that you don’t truly understand your data until you can analyze or visualize it from a geographic perspective.
Nous Research's Hermes Agent just got an official HyperFrames skill from HeyGen. The big idea: videos are just HTML files. Since AI agents already know HTML really well, they can now write, edit, and render full videos the same way they write code.
The fact that Microsoft's competitors seem to be keeping up with increased load due to AI suggests that the company has not been responding to its growth like a world-class engineering organization.
Claude is now generally available across Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, with Outlook in public beta. Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are out of beta and live on all paid plans. One conversation now carries across all four apps, so context follows the work.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
syntux (GitHub Repo)
syntux is a generative UI library that is consistent and flexible.
pipenet (Website)
pipenet is an alternative to localtunnel that bundles client and server to host self-hosted tunnel infrastructure for full control over security, domains, and availability.
Skills.sh (Website)
Skills are reusable capabilities for AI agents. This site contains an open agent skills ecosystem with a collection of skills anyone can install with a single command to enhance their agents with access to procedural knowledge.
AI News:
OpenAI wants to make voice-based software agents more conversational and capable of completing tasks in real time. At least that’s the premise behind the three new audio models it just debuted for its developer platform. The launch of the API moves the ChatGPT-maker beyond transcription toward agents that can act during live conversations.
The browser that reads the room before you ask.
Most browsers get you to the page. Norton Neo gets you to the answer. Magic Box understands your intent before you finish typing — no prompting, no switching apps, no copy-pasting. Built-in AI, instantly and for free. Privacy handled by Norton, by default.
Do consumers want wearables with less screens? Well, Google thinks so. Its newest wearable, the Fitbit Air, doesn’t have a screen but does have a collection of health sensors that pipe data into its new Google Health app. The move goes back to Fitbit’s roots, which didn’t have screens, and jumps on the success of screenless wearables like Whoop and Hume.
Anthropic's newly formed research arm, The Anthropic Institute, published its formal research agenda — a document that treats the possibility of AI systems improving themselves as something the company is actively preparing for. TAI sits inside Anthropic, letting researchers study Claude usage, internal workflows, and security signals before they hit the wider market.
Wonder if Kalshi predicted this… the prediction market startup just announced a $1 billion Series F round, valuing the company at $22 billion – double the $11 billion it nabbed just five months ago after raising a $1 billion Series E. The latest round was led by Coatue with participation from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and Paradigm.
Apple is in the late stages of developing new AirPods with built-in cameras. The prototypes feature a near-final design and capabilities. The device will be Apple's first foray into AI-enhanced hardware. While the hardware is nearly ready, there are still concerns about the AI elements, which could further hold back a launch if the quality of the visual intelligence features isn't good enough.
On May 19 join this free conversation with IgniteTech CEO, Eric Vaughan, who boldly replaced 80% of his staff with AI-first employees to accelerate AI transformation. Learn how he did it and the approach he took.
AI Tutorial
How to design email marketing campaigns with AI
Source: Salmaaboukarr
Go to ChatGPT
Select ‘+’ > ‘Create Image‘ > and enter prompt
Sample Prompt: “Create a polished, high-converting email sequence for [brand name or website]. Include welcome email, nurture emails, and a conversion-focused final email. Keep it concise and ready to send.”
Within seconds it will generate professional looking email sequence that you can use as inspiration to build your campaigns
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