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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Perplexity AI Agent, dev uses Pi to cut coding costs 👇
🖥️Perplexity Ships Fully Local AI Agent on NVIDIA Spark!
💻How a senior dev uses Pi to cut coding costs by routing workloads
🧠A senior dev packaged 20 years of dev experience in 3 Claude skills
🔓 Hackers Turned Cursor Into a Break-In Tool
💡 AI Tutorial:How to connect and edit designs using Canva in Gemini🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
We present BtrLog, a reusable cloud logging service that combines low-latency durable appends with low-cost archival for the common single-writer architecture. BtrLog replicates log records across a quorum of SSD-backed log nodes in a single network round trip, reducing sensitivity to stragglers in commit latency.
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The rise of generative AI and retrieval-augmented systems has further elevated expectations. LLM-powered applications require clean, deduplicated, normalized content. Raw RSS aggregation is insufficient when news becomes part of training pipelines, entity extraction workflows, or automated alerting engines.
Perplexity launched Portable Computer, a local AI agent that runs entirely on a user’s own machine instead of remote cloud servers. Main points: The AI agent’s core components, including the planner, execution agent, and tool system, run locally. Sensitive files stay on the device instead of being sent to the cloud.
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Lead Engineer Scott Fryxell used Pi, an AI agent harness, to route the bulk of his client coding tasks to low-cost commodity models like DeepSeek, saving premium frontier models like Fable for critical phases. He shared his structured workflow for orchestrating these agents effectively.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
llmfit (GitHub Repo)
llmfit is a terminal tool that right-sizes large language models to fit a system's RAM, CPU, and GPU.
Diffusion Language Model (GitHub Repo)
dLLM is a library that unifies the training and evaluation of diffusion language models, bringing transparency and reproducibility to the entire development pipeline
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The 2026 list spreads 100 names across leaders, innovators, and shapers. Paris Hilton earned hers lobbying for a deepfake law. Bernie Sanders, Ben Affleck, and Erin Brockovich made it as well.
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Apple TV has now raised prices four times in four years, which is its own kind of subscription model. Monthly goes from $12.99 to $14.99, the annual plan climbs from $99 to $119, and the Apple One bundle hits $21.95. Netflix and Peacock hiked this year too, and RAM shortages driven by AI data center demand are not helping anybody.
Nothing says “we take this seriously” quite like a reporting-line change. Google is reportedly relocating roughly 90 people from its AI responsibility unit out of Google DeepMind and into global affairs, the division that handles lobbying and public policy, per the Wall Street Journal. The move starts in September, shifting safety oversight out of the lab that builds the models and over to the team that talks to regulators.
Brave just handed Chrome holdouts a reason to defect: burner inboxes. Click an email field on any site and the browser offers a throwaway alias that quietly forwards to your real address, so retailers and ad tech giants like Meta cannot match you across their databases. Brave says it scans for spam, then deletes the message from its servers.
A ransomware crew told the coding agent its break-in was a simulation, and it ran hundreds of credential thefts and takeovers without blinking. Researchers found the logs on a server the gang left open.
AI Tutorial
How to connect and edit designs using Canva in Gemini
Google Gemini can now send your images straight into Canva, where you can keep editing them without starting over. Once Canva is connected inside Gemini, you can create or edit an image in chat, then open it in Canva with a single link. Here is how to do it below;
Open Gemini, go to Settings, and open Personal Intelligence.
Click Connected Apps. Find Canva and connect your Canva account.
Go back to your Gemini chat & Upload or create an image in Gemini.
Then send a second prompt such as: “@Canva, make this editable”.
Gemini will create a Canva link inside the chat.
Click the link and the design will open in Canva, where you can edit it right away.
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