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🤖 Building Agentic Workflows in Python with LangGraph
🦾Plus: 🔓 OpenAI's escaped AIs claim another victim
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of code deploys, Microsoft’s AI courses 👇
🎙️ Grok's New Voice Model Outruns OpenAI's Flagship
⚙️Treat prompt changes like code deploys
📘Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence for Beginners - A Curriculum
🏛️ Altman heads to Capitol Hill to talk models, security
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn Reddit posts into viral content with AI
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
A question about your own business data still means a ticket, a queue, and a week of waiting. Cube hands that workflow to AI agents: they model the data, explore it, and build the reports — your team guides and approves — so week-long analysis comes back in minutes. And because every agent works from one governed set of metric definitions, the answers come back right. 400+ companies run on Cube, including Brex, Wix, Patagonia, and Webflow.
In this article, you will learn how to build a complete agentic workflow in Python with LangGraph, from a single model call to a tool-using agent with persistent conversation memory. Most AI agent setups handle the single-turn case well: take a question, call a model, and return an answer. The harder problems appear soon after that.
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 starts speaking 0.70 seconds into a call, against 1.21 seconds for OpenAI's GPT-Realtime-2.1.The model resolved 56.5% of test support calls where OpenAI's flagship managed 45.7%, though OpenAI leads narrowly on conversational flow. The grok-voice-latest tag switches over automatically on August 5, priced at $0.08 per minute of audio.
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Prompts are dependencies. Changing them can shift downstream behavior with no warning, no failing build, and no obvious signal in the request pipeline. Treat prompts exactly like any other artifact that can change production behavior. Test them, give them a gate, and default that gate to blocking until proven otherwise.
Most people try to learn AI by jumping between random YouTube videos and tutorials. Microsoft released a complete free AI curriculum on GitHub that takes you from the fundamentals all the way to neural networks and modern LLMs, with hands-on labs, quizzes, and real projects. If you've been looking for a structured way to actually understand AI, this is one of the best places to start.
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kysely
A type-safe typescript SQL query builder.
GraphGPT
Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text using GPT-3.
Operator Stack: Its Reporting System connects to your marketing data so you can automate reporting, uncover insights, and spend more time making decisions.
AI News:
CEO Sam Altman spent Wednesday on Capitol Hill meeting with senators about OpenAI's next models and addressing the security incident, hours after President Trump floated AI "controls" when asked about the company's rogue agent. Altman reportedly previewed OAI’s upcoming models, but no new details on capabilities emerged, and the CEO is “not sure” about a release timeline.
You ship worldwide. Your follow-up doesn't.
International Shopify customers don't check email. They're on WhatsApp. Wati connects your store directly to WhatsApp, Instagram DM, and SMS — set up automated cart recovery, order updates, and follow-up flows that reach customers wherever they are. Every conversation tracked in one place, nothing missed.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued telehealth platform Hims & Hers today alleging that the company shared users’ health data with online advertisers, including Meta and Snap, and engaged in deceptive billing and cancellation practices. Hims & Hers called the claims baseless in a post on X.
OpenAI's rogue agent story just widened, with a new company confirming a customer of its cloud platform as the hack's second victim, and fresh Hugging Face forensics timeline tallying 17,600 hostile actions by the models. AI infrastructure company Modal Labs told Reuters the agent got in through a customer's coding flaw that left a sandbox usable by anyone online.
Why partner with a delivery provider when you can build your own solution? That’s what DoorDash is attempting with building its own drone delivery business, including its own aircraft. The company unveiled the new business, DoorDash Air, after receiving a Part 135 air carrier certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to legally operate its commercial drone delivery service.
Meta CEO told investors he expects personal AI agents managing finances, health, and relationships to become standard within five years, positioning WhatsApp as the primary interface despite Reality Labs posting $4.6B quarterly loss
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AI Tutorial
How to turn Reddit posts into viral content with AI
Find a relevant Reddit post in your niche.
Add /.json to the end of the URL and copy the thread data.
Paste it into ChatGPT to extract pain points and generate viral hooks.
ChatGPT Prompt: "[add 3 viral posts] [add JSON file] Analyze this Reddit JSON. Extract the biggest pain points and write 5 viral two-line hooks that match the style of my top-performing hooks."
Send the hooks and your best-performing post samples to Claude, if you have any.
Claude Prompt: "[add 3 viral posts] Using these viral [platform] posts as references, write 5 new posts on this topic with the same structure, pacing, formatting, and voice, without copying the wording."
Claude will write 5 posts that match your voice and proven format.
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Siteimprove.ai built an AEO Checker so you don't have to wait to find out. Run your domain to learn which AI search engines can find and cite you.
Creally is the AI platform for creator partnerships. Agents handle discovery, personalized outreach, follow-ups, and negotiations end-to-end
Planable is where posts get created, reviewed, and approved before anything goes live.
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