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🤖 Choosing the Right Agentic Design Pattern
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In this article, you will learn how to apply a structured decision tree to choose the right agentic design pattern for any AI system you are building. Why pattern selection is a critical design decision, and what assumptions underlie each major agentic design pattern. A five-question decision tree that maps concrete task properties to the most appropriate starting pattern.
This billionaire strategy beat the S&P 500 by 3.1x from 2017-2025. Here's how to get in.
That’s not by picking the right stock or timing the market. It’s by holding three real asset classes in one strategy.
It’s anchored by an investment typically exclusive to billionaires.
Could be good timing too–
Bloomberg's Marcus Ashworth recently wrote, there’s "no more reliable safe havens."
The S&P, while hovering over 5 year highs, fell over 7% from the February peak. Bonds might carry less risk but they are barely keeping pace with inflation.
The things supposed to protect your portfolio started moving together.
Meanwhile, the world's wealthiest have been setting records in postwar and contemporary art.
After the dot-com bust, it grew roughly 24% annually for a decade. After 2008, roughly 11% annually for 12 years.
It trades globally in multiple currencies, has scarce supply, and has shown near-zero correlation to equities since 1995.*
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Snowflake pipelines are no longer evaluated only by how well they support scheduled loading. For many teams, the priority has shifted toward continuity. Data has to arrive fast enough for near-real-time analytics, operational reporting, product intelligence, and AI-driven workflows. That shift has changed what a strong ingestion tool looks like.
X just open-sourced the full code behind your For You feed. Not a blog post. Not a diagram. The actual production code, live on GitHub at xai-org/x-algorithm under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning you can use and modify it commercially.
The first part of this essay supports the case for the universality of partial and incomplete levels of understanding by showing the difficulty of reaching a deep level of understanding for even a simple analysis and model that most scientists use and believe they understand: linear regression.
Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College…Data comes in many forms, but the spatial components can be overlooked. You’ll get some history of mapping and learn the basic building blocks of spatial data. The demo portion will go over how to use the trusty {ggplot2} as well as some new tools like {sf} and {tmap} to plot different types of spatial data…
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Thor is different from most AI assistants: it reaches out to you, not the other way around. It monitors your Slack threads and meetings, spots action items, and surfaces them before they get dropped
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There’s a new personal finance guru in town. U.S.-based ChatGPT Pro subscribers can now access a preview of a new set of personal finance tools (thanks to a partnership with financial connection service Plaid), letting users connect their accounts and ask questions ranging from spending analysis to future planning.
One brand built 30+ landing pages through Viktor without a single developer.
Each page mapped to a specific ad group. All deployed within hours. Viktor wrote the code and shipped every one from a Slack message.
That same team has Viktor monitoring ad accounts across the portfolio and posting performance briefs before the day starts. One colleague. Always on. Across every account.
5,700+ teams. 3,000+ integrations.
Liftoff is coming sooner than we anticipated. Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is reportedly accelerating its IPO timeline after a faster-than-expected SEC review. The blockbuster offering could go live as early as June 12 and has picked Nasdaq as its listing venue, trading under the ticker ‘SPCX.
WebBridge hands your existing Chrome or Edge over to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Kimi Code. Everything runs locally through DevTools Protocol, so logins and pages stay on your machine.
Be warned: any sale or transfer of its stock not approved by Anthropic’s board of directors is void and will not be recognized on its books and records. According to the AI startup, 8 platforms are currently operating stock sales without authorization including: Open Door Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar, and Upmarket.
Xynova introduced Flex 2, a robotic hand built for humanoid robots and fine manipulation. The hand features 23 degrees of freedom and sensing systems that detect slipping objects and adjust grip force in real time. The company targets tasks involving fragile objects, tools, irregular shapes, and environments where precision errors carry real costs.
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How to add AI avatars into any product scene with AI
Open Vids.new and select the ‘AI Avatar’ option
Upload your product images (packaging, device, clothing, mockup, etc.)
Add or select an avatar and lock the face + voice for consistency across every shot
Describe the exact environment, camera angle, lighting, and action you want
Sample Prompt: “Place the avatar in a modern studio holding my uploaded skincare product. Start with a close-up shot, then transition to a medium shot while the avatar explains the product naturally. Keep the same face, voice, outfit, and tone across every frame.”
Use scene directions like “walk into frame,” “pick up product,” “point at label,” or “cinematic tracking shot” for more control
Generate multiple takes and refine expressions, pacing, or camera movement until it feels natural
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