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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
šHow AI & Humanoids Will Revolutionize the Workforce
š #1 Coding Agent on Terminal-Bench Across All Models
š§Open-source All-in-One Multimodal RAG Framework
šļø Tiny Vision Model Beats Claude, GPT-5, and Gemini Pro
š¼ AI āworkslopā costing companies millions
š Accenture cuts 11K jobs
š” AI Tutorial:Create your own animated miniatures
š¤ AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Django, a high-level web framework for Python, is particularly popular for creating scalable and secure web applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a simple Django application that serves predictions from a machine learning model. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the entire process, starting from initial model training to inference and testing APIs.
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Artificial intelligence has become a lot more sophisticated and helpful over the last few decades. At the end of the 20th century, AI was still very rudimentary and couldnāt accomplish many tasks. Robots in the workforce existed within the pages of sci-fi books alone.
Factory AI's Droid agent just claimed the top spot on Terminal-Bench with a 58.75% score, outperforming every other coding agent, including Claude Code and Codex CLI. The key insight runs contrary to popular opinion: agent design matters more than model choice. Droid achieves state-of-the-art performance across all frontier models - Claude Sonnet 4, Opus 4.1, and GPT-5, by using hierarchical prompting, model-specific optimizations, and minimalist tool design.
Open-source All-in-One Multimodal RAG Framework ššš
Building RAG systems that work with real-world documents means dealing with more than just text - you need to handle charts, tables, equations, and images that traditional RAG simply ignores or just canāt process effectively. RAG-Anything lets you seamlessly process and query documents containing interleaved text, visual diagrams, structured tables, and mathematical formulations through one cohesive interface.
This vision model with just 2B active parameters beats Claude Opus 4.1, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro at visual reasoning - and doing it orders of magnitude faster! Moondream 3 is a 9B MoE model with just 2B active parameters that achieves frontier-level visual reasoning while still retaining blazingly fast inference. It comes with native object detection and a dramatically improved OCR performance - all trained with reinforcement learning that proved so effective it consumed more compute than the initial pretraining
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AI News:
Apple has developed an internal chatbot codenamed āVeritasā that employees are using to stress-test for Siri's AI overhaul, according to Bloomberg, with the company scrambling to salvage its voice assistant upgrade after massive delays. Veritas allows Appleās AI division to experiment with capabilities like searching personal data and editing photos with voice commands.
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Stanford and BetterUp Labs surveyed 1,100+ U.S. workers about AI "workslop,ā polished but hollow outputs that shift real work to other employees, finding that 41% of respondents encountered such content in the last month. The research found that workslop forced recipients to spend an average of 116 minutes decoding or redoing each piece.ā
AI talent studio Xicoia just revealed that its AI actress, Tilly Norwood, is in negotiations with multiple Hollywood talent firms, sparking backlash from actors who called for boycotts of any agencies that sign synthetic performers. Norwood debuted in a comedy sketch last month, with Xicoia developing unique backstories, voices, and narrative arcs for the character.
Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, recently said in a meeting that he wants to focus on licensing Meta's software to other manufacturers instead of being a hardware manufacturer. Meta's new Superintelligence AI lab is working with the company's robotics group to build a 'world model' that can do software simulations to animate dexterous movements.
Accenture is laying off workers it canāt retrain for the AI era, while still planning to grow its team next year. CEO Julie Sweet said reskilling is the top strategy, but those who can't be retrained are being "exited". Accentureās AI and data team has grown to 77,000; 550,000 employees trained in generative AI.
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AI Tutorial
š¤ Create your own animated miniatures
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a mini figurine of yourself or a specific product using Google Gemini's Nano Banana tool, then animate it with Luma Dream Machine to create eye-catching videos for social media or marketing.
Step-by-step:
Go to Google Gemini, click "Create images," and enable the Nano Banana tool
Use this prompt: "First ask me to upload an image, then create a 1/7th scale commercialized figurine of the characters in the picture in a realistic style in a real environment. The figurine is placed on a computer desk with a transparent acrylic base and a toy packaging box"
Upload your reference image when prompted and let Gemini generate your figurine scene with desk setup, monitor, and premium packaging
Take the generated image to Luma Labs, create a "New Board," and animate with prompts like "Front camera view of this figurine. He takes the phone, tosses it up like a serve, then smashes it toward the camera"
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