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In today's edition: Here is roundup of on-device models, stronger safety controls, and more practical AI workflows. 👇
⚡Best End-to-End Open Source MLOps tools
🤖 PrismML ships the first 27B-class model that runs on a phone
⚠️ OpenAI's new coding model reportedly deletes files without permission
🛠️How to use OpenCode (by an ex-Microsoft engineer)
🔊 OpenAI plans screen-free ChatGPT smart speaker
💡 AI Tutorial:How to design anything with Canva in Claude Design
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
In this article, you will learn how to decide whether a given piece of agent functionality should be built as a tool or as a subagent, and how to avoid overengineering your agent architecture in the process. Topics we will cover include: What tools and subagents are, and the key differences between them. When a tool is the better choice, and when a subagent is worth the added complexity.
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Leveraging open-source MLOps tools can significantly enhance this process, providing flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Here, we explore some of the leading open-source MLOps platforms, frameworks, and tools that are empowering developers and data scientists worldwide.
The California-based startup just dropped Bonsai 27B, a compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 27B. By storing each weight as a single bit, PrismML cut the model from 54GB to just 3.9GB. The company says it’s small enough to fit on an iPhone 17 Pro while keeping 90% of its performance.
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The ChatGPT maker's GPT-5.6 Sol is facing backlash from developers who claim it wiped production databases and entire Mac filesystems on its own. The company’s system card flagged the risk, noting Sol is more likely than GPT-5.5 to exceed user intent and may even misreport its actions afterward. For now, strict permission scoping and regular backups are the only real safeguards.
OpenCode is an open-source alternative to Claude Code. It’s a flexible AI coding agent that runs in your terminal. In this tutorial, you’ll learn to connect different language models, scaffold apps, install custom skills, and write system prompts in OpenCode.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Cube Agent: Customer-facing analytics are slow, the warehouse bill keeps climbing, and every new chart turns into an engineering project. Cube is the agentic analytics platform built for embedding: drop governed dashboards and an AI analyst into your product in days.
Columns.ai Flow turns AI into your data workflow engine. Connect spreadsheets, APIs, and SQL databases, then clean, join, filter, aggregate, pivot, and visualize your data through simple chat.
Operator Stack: Its Reporting System connects to your marketing data so you can automate reporting, uncover insights, and spend more time making decisions.
Is your AI analyst lying to you? Tune in to hear Andy and ThoughtSpot SVP of Product Management, Francois Lopitaux, discuss whether a “single source of truth” is actually achievable
AI News:
Apple beta testers have some big features to try this week. The tech leader’s biggest-ever Siri overhaul is now available to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users the chance to try out the new AI assistant ahead of its broader launch this fall. The public beta marks the first time Apple has made its AI-powered Siri available beyond developers.
Your competitor's growth lead already saw the spend spike.
While your team is still in standup, the other growth lead already got the alert. Viktor is an AI employee that lives in Slack. It watches your Meta and TikTok spend overnight, flags the underperformer by 7am, and drafts the new brief before your first meeting.
OpenAI’s Jony Ive-designed AI hardware will be a screen-free, battery-powered speaker built around a humanlike personality, according to a Bloomberg report — with Apple's trade-secrets suit now looming over a potential 2027 release. A rechargeable battery would let users carry it between rooms, while onboard cameras and sensors will give the device a read on its surroundings.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just published a plan for a U.S. body that would safety-test advanced AI before public release, pitching a formal rulebook to a government that spent the last month making AI policy one emergency at a time. Modeled on FINRA, the finance world's self-regulator, the group would screen new models for deception, bioweapons creation, and malicious hacking skills.
Chinese large language model developer DeepSeek is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut. But first, it’s reportedly looking to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at about a $71 billion valuation. The news comes after the company raised $7 billion in funds just one month ago at a $50 billion valuation in its first-ever outside funding round.
Anthropic is opening the program to individual US teachers first, with a dedicated school and district version still on the way. Cowork can run a scheduled job like the weekly parent meeting without a teacher at the keyboard, while each account pairs Claude Pro with teaching skills for lesson planning and differentiation, plus connectors to curricula like Illustrative Math and OpenSciEd.
AI Tutorial
How to design anything with Canva in Claude Design
Go to Claude and sign up
Select Sonnet 4.7 as your model and enter your prompt
Sample Prompt: Design a professional welcome guide for a company retreat, including schedule, activities, and key information.
Hit enter, Claude will generate a complete guide within seconds
Click Export → Send to Canva → Open in Canva
In Canva, go to Brand and apply your brand colors, fonts, and style
Customize the layout, visuals, and sections as needed
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
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.
Thor.ai captures the blockers, decisions, and commitments that never make it into your tools — straight from Slack threads and meetings
AirRankPilot helps local businesses get discovered by Google and AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity
InboxKit is your all-in-one platform for building, managing, and scaling cold-email infrastructure.
CCPayment is a cryptocurrency payment platform allowing merchants to accept and payouts
HuePress is a SaaS platform providing therapy-grade, high-quality printable coloring pages
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