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🧩 Feature Engineering Techniques for Unstructured Text Data
🦾Plus: 🔞ChatGPT ‘adult mode’ coming in 2026
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🏆Top 20 Artificial Intelligence Platforms for 2026
🧠Making Sense of Memory in AI Agents
🐛Cursors’ Debug Mode: Agents with runtime logs
🧪Google releases the FACTS Benchmark Suite
🚀Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
🗣️Google Translate now lets you hear real-time translations
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn any PDF into a whiteboard-style visual
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
In this article, you will learn practical ways to convert raw text into numerical features that machine learning models can use, ranging from statistical counts to semantic and contextual embeddings.
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I’ve been catching up on the topic of memory management for AI agents recently and was overwhelmed by the amount of new terminology and concepts. This blog post serves as my working study notes to collect all the information on memory for agents…
Cursor’s new Debug Mode starts with a simple setup: you describe a stubborn bug, the kind that eats weekends, and the agent reads your codebase with fresh eyes. Static guesses rarely catch issues that only appear when the code actually runs. This insight pushes Cursor to flip the model: instead of guessing, it gathers real evidence from your runtime.
Google teaming up with Kaggle to introduce the FACTS Benchmark Suite. It extends our previous work developing the FACTS Grounding Benchmark, with three additional factuality benchmarks. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly becoming a primary source for information delivery across diverse use cases, so it’s important that their responses are factually accurate.
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President Trump’s new executive order creates a single federal framework for artificial intelligence by blocking most state-level AI regulations, a move supporters say will prevent a crippling patchwork of rules and keep the U.S. competitive, but critics argue is a sweeping federal power grab that removes essential guardrails against real harms like bias, privacy violations, and deepfakes.
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OpenAI’s launch of GPT-5.2 came with confirmation that a long-promised “adult mode” for ChatGPT will debut in early 2026, offering adults more expressive and personalized interactions, including erotica—an idea originally floated after user backlash over GPT-5’s toned-down personality.
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. The tool, Visual Editor, is essentially a vibe-coding product for designers, giving them access to the same fine-grained controls they’d expect from professional design software
The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.
ElevenLabs is partnering with Meta to power expressive, scalable audio across Instagram, Horizon, and more - bringing natural and diverse audio to billions of users.
AI Tutorial
How to turn any PDF into a whiteboard-style visual
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Go to NanoBanana and sign up. Click on Tools > Create image 🍌
Upload your PDF document and enter your prompt
Sample Prompt: “[upload PDF] Transform this PDF into a professor-style whiteboard image, include diagrams, arrows, boxes, and short captions that explain the core ideas visually. Use color highlights to make concepts easy to follow.”
Within seconds, NanoBanana will read your entire document, extract the key insights, and turn it into a clean, easy-to-understand whiteboard summary perfect for presentations, notes, or study materials.
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