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Build Python RAG pipeline with ChatGPT API and LangChain 🤖
🦾Plus: Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree

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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🛠️10 AI Tools for Data Scientists in 2025
⚙️Lightweight Orchestration Layer for Multi-agent Apps
💻macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code
🤖xAI Preps Grok 4 Rollout with Dual Models
🌐 Cloudflare creates pay-per-crawl AI marketplace
🤖 Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion to challenge OpenAI
💡 AI Tutorial:Automate YouTube content creation with AI
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Build a simple Python RAG pipeline with ChatGPT API and LangChain. Process local text files, and ground model outputs in domain-specific context to reduce hallucinations. Use reproducible, scriptable components end-to-end.
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Explore groundbreaking AI advancements reshaping data science. Uncover the top 10 essential AI tools every data scientist should be acquainted with in this insightful article.

LlamaIndex Workflows strikes the perfect balance - it's a lightweight orchestration layer that gives you the building blocks without the baggage. This standalone framework (yes, it's divorced from the main LlamaIndex package) lets you build everything from intelligent document processors to multi-agent research assistants using clean, event-driven Python and TypeScript code.

Context is a native app for debugging MCP servers powered by Apple's SwiftUI framework. It was built almost completely by Claude Code. Of the 20,000 lines in the project, less than 1,000 lines were written by hand. This post explains how Context's developer chose their tools, what those tools are good at and bad at, and how other developers can leverage them to maximize the quality of their generated code output.

xAI is gearing up to launch Grok 4 through its developer console, with two distinct models surfaced in the platform's source code: Grok 4 and Grok 4 Code. Grok 4 is positioned as the core flagship, optimized for natural language, math, and reasoning tasks. It’s built as a high-performance generalist, designed to handle a wide spectrum of inputs.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
LLocalSearch
LLocalSearch is a completely locally running search aggregator using LLM Agents. The user can ask a question and the system will use a chain of LLMs to find the answer. The user can see the progress of the agents and the final answer. No OpenAI or Google API keys are needed.
ClangQL
ClangQL is a tool that allow you to run SQL-like query on C/C++ Code instead of database files using the GitQL SDK.
llm.c
LLM training in simple, raw C/CUDA.
AI News:

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a fiery Slack message to researchers Monday night, according to WIRED — dismissing Meta's recruiting tactics as "distasteful" while pitching why building AGI at OpenAI beats chasing paychecks.
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Web infrastructure giant Cloudflare just made a major change to automatically block AI crawlers by default on new websites, alongside the launch of a marketplace where publishers can charge bots micropayments for accessing content. Cloudflare will require AI companies to get explicit permission before scraping any of the 20% of websites it protects, reversing decades of open web policies.

xAI has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity through secured notes, term loans, and a strategic equity investment. The funding will give the startup more firepower to build out infrastructure and develop its Grok AI chatbot. xAI has already installed 200,000 GPUs at its Colossus facility in Memphis, Tennessee.

OpenAI is building out a consulting arm that charges enterprises at least $10M to customize AI models, according to a new report from The Information — putting the AI leader in competition with industry giants like Palantir and Accenture.
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AI Tutorial
🎬 Automate YouTube content creation with AI

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Google's Gemini AI to analyze videos and automatically generate titles, descriptions, tags, and chapters — streamlining your YouTube content workflow.
Step-by-step:
Go to Google Gemini, click the attachment button, and upload your video file
Generate titles with: “Analyze this video and provide 10 compelling YouTube titles”
Ask it to provide you with a detailed video description with a hook, summary, and call-to-action.
Request it for tags as comma-separated values, plus chapter timestamps
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