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Data Governance in Lakehouse Using Open Source Tools 👩💻
🦾Plus: 👨⚕️ OpenAI launched HealthBench
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Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧠A hands-on introduction to Agentic RAG
🚀Top 20 Artificial Intelligence Platforms for 2025
💻 Visual Studio Code beefs up AI coding features.
🤝Open Agent-User Interaction Protocol
🧠 Sakana teaches AI to think with time
📱Samsung launches thin S25 Edge
💡AI Tutorial:Create interactive crosswords from your lessons
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Before we get into why Agentic RAG is such a big deal, it’s worth taking a step back. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is a technique for building LLM-powered applications that can access external knowledge sources. The idea is simple: instead of relying only on what the LLM “remembers” from training, you give it relevant context at runtime - reducing hallucinations without needing to finetune the model.
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In 2021 as new updates and improvements take over the field of AI, the ranking of these AI platforms will have to shift. We look at the 20 best artificial intelligence platforms for 2021, and why we think they deserve to be on the list.
Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of Microsoft’s code editor, has arrived with several upgrades to its AI chat and AI code editing capabilities. Highlighting the list are support for Markdown-based instructions and prompt files, faster code editing in agent mode, and more speed and accuracy in Next Edit Suggestions.
CopilotKit has released AG-UI, an open, lightweight, event-based protocol that standardizes how AI agents connect to front-end applications. Think of it as a universal translator for AI-driven systems- no matter what language an agent speaks: AG-UI ensures fluent communication. It’s built to support real-time agent-user collaboration, live state streaming, and frontend tool use, without forcing you to change your agent backend.
As organizations adopt the Lakehouse architecture which blends the flexibility of data lakes with the reliability of data warehouses, the need for robust data governance becomes critical. But good governance doesn’t have to mean expensive vendor tools. With a smart selection of open-source tools, you can enforce policies, ensure data quality, and maintain compliance across your entire data platform.
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StarGuard (GitHub Repo)
Fake stars are rampant and supply chain attacks are rising. StarGuard is a command-line tool for detecting fake-star campaigns, dependency hijacks, license red flags, and other signals of open-source risk.
Airweave (GitHub Repo)
Airweave is an MCP-compatible tool that lets agents semantically search any app.
Simple Agent API: a robust, production-ready application for serving Agents as an API. A minimal, open-source setup for serving Agents using FastAPI and Postgres. Built for speed, clarity, and dev happiness.
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OpenAI released HealthBench, a benchmark created with 262 physicians to evaluate how AI systems perform in health conversations — and establish a new standard for measuring AI’s safety and effectiveness in medical contexts. The benchmark tests models across several themes (like emergency referrals and global health) and behaviors (accuracy, communication quality, etc.).
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Sakana AI unveiled Continuous Thought Machines (CTMs), a new type of model that makes AI more brain-like by allowing it to “think” step-by-step over time instead of making instant decisions like current AI systems do. Unlike most AI that processes information in a static, one-shot way, the CTM considers how its internal activity unfolds over time, much like our brains do.
Apple is working on versions of the AirPods and Apple Watch that incorporate a camera, and the devices could be ready to launch sometime around 2027, reports Bloomberg. Apple has developed a chip codenamed "Nevis" that will be used for its camera-equipped Apple Watch, while a chip codenamed "Glennie" will be incorporated into the AirPods.
Samsung has unveiled a thin version of its flagship smartphone called the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. The device is 5.8 millimeters thin and weighs 163 grams. It will go on sale on May 30, starting at $1,099. Samsung may be trying to get ahead of Apple, which is gearing up to launch the iPhone 17 Air.
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AI Tutorial
🧩 Create interactive crosswords from your lessons
In this tutorial, you will learn how to turn any lesson material into engaging crossword puzzles by combining NotebookLM's AI analysis with CrosswordLabs' puzzle generator.
Step-by-step:
Visit NotebookLM and click "Create new" to start a fresh notebook for your lesson materials.
Upload your content by clicking “Add” in the Sources section: PDFs, documents, and audio files all work great.
Use the prompt “Create [number] clues for a crossword in the following style. Do not add any bullets or formatting: Dog man’s best friend…” in the chat section.
Copy the generated word-clue pairs and paste them directly into CrosswordLabs to automatically build your puzzle.
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