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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🔬Google’s 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
🔗How to Build a Local ELT Pipeline with DuckDB and DBT
📈Regression Modeling Strategies
⚡Why Apache Flink Is Not Going Anywhere
🕹️ World Models Are Coming for the $190B Gaming Industry
📉 AI Confidence Drops A Salesforce
💡 AI Tutorial:How to build a functional app in minutes (without Supabase)
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Here’s a look back at some of the breakthroughs, products and scientific milestones that defined the work of Google, Google DeepMind and Google Research in a year of relentless progress…
The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.
AI has changed how consumers shop by speeding up research. But one thing hasn’t changed: shoppers still trust people more than AI.
Levanta’s new Affiliate 3.0 Consumer Report reveals a major shift in how shoppers blend AI tools with human influence. Consumers use AI to explore options, but when it comes time to buy, they still turn to creators, communities, and real experiences to validate their decisions.
The data shows:
Only 10% of shoppers buy through AI-recommended links
87% discover products through creators, blogs, or communities they trust
Human sources like reviews and creators rank higher in trust than AI recommendations
The most effective brands are combining AI discovery with authentic human influence to drive measurable conversions.
Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified by it.
In the ever-expanding universe of data, the term “Data Science” has become a familiar star, representing the practice of extracting insights and knowledge from data. However, as the scale and complexity of data have grown to astronomical proportions, a more specialized and powerful field has emerged: Computational Data Science. While these two terms sound similar and are often used interchangeably, they represent different, albeit related, disciplines.
In this article, we are going to build a functional ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) pipeline using DuckDB (our analytical engine) and dbt (data transformation).
All regression models have assumptions or constraints that must approximately hold for (1) findings from model-based analyses not to have alternate explanations, (2) statistical power to detect associations be optimized, (3) estimates about unknowns to have optimum precision, and (4) predictions to be accurate…There are four principal types of assumptions of regression models:
Astrologers proclaim the month of criticizing Apache Flink, I thought to myself recently. In the last few months, I have read many posts on social media, company blogs, and newsletters that attack Flink from different angles. So, today, I’d like to reply with this statement: Flink is not going anywhere…
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
vet (GitHub Repo): vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the curl | bash pattern.
Code Sandbox MCP: A self-hosted MCP server that enables AI agents to execute Python and JavaScript code in Docker/Podman containers on your local infrastructure
Inbound: An email management API that lets you programmatically create email addresses and route incoming messages to AI agents, webhooks, or forwarding destinations.
AI News:
In the past few weeks, world models - AI systems that generate full 3D game environments from text - officially entered the gaming arena. These are real tools game studios are already using to replace months of work with a few minutes of generation. FYI, you give the model a simple prompt, like “jungle temple level with lava traps and AI spiders”, it creates a full 3D playable space.
What investment is rudimentary for billionaires but ‘revolutionary’ for 70,571+ investors entering 2026?
Imagine this. You open your phone to an alert. It says, “you spent $236,000,000 more this month than you did last month.”
If you were the top bidder at Sotheby’s fall auctions, it could be reality.
Sounds crazy, right? But when the ultra-wealthy spend staggering amounts on blue-chip art, it’s not just for decoration.
The scarcity of these treasured artworks has helped drive their prices, in exceptional cases, to thin-air heights, without moving in lockstep with other asset classes.
The contemporary and post war segments have even outpaced the S&P 500 overall since 1995.*
Now, over 70,000 people have invested $1.2 billion+ across 500 iconic artworks featuring Banksy, Basquiat, Picasso, and more.
How? You don’t need Medici money to invest in multimillion dollar artworks with Masterworks.
Thousands of members have gotten annualized net returns like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8% from 26 sales to date.
*Based on Masterworks data. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd
OpenAI is considering ads that appear as natural recommendations during ChatGPT conversations. Internally called intent-based monetization, the approach would surface products or services only when they fit the user’s question. The company is weighing generative ads, affiliate-style revenue, and sponsored GPTs, all aimed at funding rising infrastructure costs tied to model training and inference.
Salesforce says large language models proved unpredictable in real business use. Executives point to missed instructions, task drift, and failures once prompts grow complex. After rolling out AI agents and cutting around 4,000 support roles, the company is now prioritizing deterministic triggers and data foundations. Agentforce remains a revenue bet, though the tone has shifted from AI-first hype to controlled automation.
Google is gradually rolling out the option to change a Gmail address to a new one (up to three times) with an altered username. Users' original email address will still receive emails and work for sign-in. Users will be unable to change or delete their email within 12 months of each change. The support page detailing the update is currently only in Hindi.
Commercial robots are far more vulnerable to hacking than many users realise, with cybersecurity experts warning that some machines can be taken over in minutes. Now, Chinese developers have demonstrated how flaws in humanoid and quadruped robots allow attackers to seize full control through voice commands or wireless links, turning the machines into tools for physical disruption.
AI Tutorial
How to build a functional app in minutes (without Supabase)
Go to getmocha. com and sign up (for free).
Describe your idea.
Sample Prompt: “Build a deal tracking app for business owners.”
Answer a few setup questions (login, payments, features) to structure your app.
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Add features by typing prompts, like:
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“Add an AI chatbot with personalized tips”
To add payments, use:
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Once done, click Publish to go live. Hosting and deployment are handled automatically.
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