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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
š ļø25 Best Project Management Tools in 2025
šRuby on Rails: The Open-Source Blueprint
šComing to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption
šHow to Combine Streamlit, Pandas, and Plotly for Data Apps
š¤ Sakana AI teaches models to team up
š±iPhone Fold reportedly on track for potential launch next year
š§ Scientists build an AI that can think like humans
š” AI Tutorial:How to install and use the Gemini CLI AI Agent
š¤ AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Continuous AI is the concept of integrating AI tooling automatically into existing development flows. This doesn't include tooling that purports to write and test entire changes for developers. Continuous AI can add a surprising amount of value. This article discusses some ways in which to integrate AI to perform automated checks, organizational tasks, and help with other parts of the software engineering process.
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Efficient project management is critical for teams aiming to meet deadlines, stay organized, and optimize workflows. With the growing demand for advanced tools, here are the 25 best project management software solutions for 2025, complete with their standout features and descriptions

This article looks at why Rails' choice of using the MIT License was revolutionary, how Rails inspired a generation of frameworks, and why Rails is so good for open source projects. The project proved that open source software can compete with and often surpass commercial alternatives.

The Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) extension, part of the open source Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, encrypts all database files on disk, ensuring sensitive information remains secure even if storage is compromised.

Creating interactive web-based data dashboards in Python is easier than ever when you combine the strengths of Streamlit, Pandas, and Plotly. These three libraries work seamlessly together to transform static datasets into responsive, visually engaging applications ā all without needing a background in web development.
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šØāš» Data Tools, Libraries
Clay (GitHub Repo)
Clay is a high performance 2D UI layout library that features microsecond layout performance, a flex-box-like layout model for complex, responsive layouts, WebAssembly support, and more.
Mizu (Website)
Mizu is a lightweight and customizable JavaScript library that makes building powerful web apps easy. It allows developers to render content wherever it is needed however they want through user-friendly APIs.
BLT ā a new byte-level LLM architecture that groups raw bytes into patches dynamically, eliminating the need for a fixed token vocabulary.
AI News:
Everyoneās been obsessed with language models lately, Claude, GPT, Gemini, but Fei-Fei Li just reminded us of something huge: the real world is 3D⦠and current AI still canāt see it. In a powerful talk at Stanford HAI, the āgodmother of AIā said the next frontier isnāt more chatbots, itās spatial intelligence.
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Japanese lab Sakana AI just introduced AB-MCTS, a new algorithm that lets competing AI models collaborate on complex problems, using their collective intelligence to solve problems too difficult for any of the individual models.

The iPhone Fold is on schedule for a potential launch in the second half of next year. It reportedly reached a realistic prototyping stage sometime last month. If everything stays on track, the prototype could complete testing by the end of 2025.
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As part of the Stargate Project (the $500B initiative to build AI infrastructure across the US), OpenAI will rent 4.5GW of additional computing power from Oracleās US data centers, enough to power hundreds of homes. To meet demand, Oracle will build new data centers in Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Wyoming, New Mexico, Georgia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and will expand its original data center capacity from 1.2 to 2GW.

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich developed an AI model named Centaur, which simulates human decision-making and behavior with extreme accuracy from training on millions of choices from psychological experiments.
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AI Tutorial
How to install and use the Gemini CLI AI Agent
Gemini CLI gives you access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, with a massive 1 million-token context window and the industry's largest free usage allowance: 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 per day.
Here are the steps to install and use it:
Go to https://nodejs.org/en/download and install the version for your operating system.

Open your terminal (PowerShell if you're on Windows) and type "npm install -g (at)google/gemini-cli"
Then launch Gemini CLI with "gemini"
And thatās it! You can start using Gemini CLI for code editing, creating websites, generating videos, and more.
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