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🛰️A Guide to Geospatial Data Engineering
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📖 OpenAI reveals how its Codex coding agent works
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Most forecasting work involves building custom models for each dataset — fit an ARIMA here, tune an LSTM there, wrestle with Prophet‘s hyperparameters. Foundation models flip this around. They’re pretrained on massive amounts of time series data and can forecast new patterns without additional training, similar to how GPT can write about topics it’s never explicitly seen.
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Geospatial data is a powerful tool that enables us to better understand our world with the power of location. In the geospatial field, we like to say that you don’t truly understand your data until you can analyze or visualize it from a geographic perspective.
Mozilla will deploy roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support startups that are working on safety and governance issues in AI. The nonprofit, also the parent of Firefox, is investing in artificial intelligence startups that are working on safety and governance issues in AI. It’s an uphill climb as Mozilla is going up against massive players like OpenAI and Anthropic as well as the Trump administration, which has loudly criticized what it calls “woke AI.”
OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin has published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company's Codex CLI coding agent works internally, revealing the "agentic loop" that powers tools capable of writing code, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. The disclosure comes as AI coding agents like Codex with GPT-5.2 and Claude Code with Opus 4.5 are reaching a level of usefulness that some compare to ChatGPT's early impact.
one-agent-one-browser is a web browser built in three days with a single Codex CLI agent. It contains 20,000 lines of Rust with no Rust crate dependencies at all, with only OS system frameworks for image and text rendering. The browser successfully renders HTML and CSS and can even display SVGs and PNGs.
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OpenAI just launched Prism, a free research tool that puts its most advanced reasoning model inside the scientific writing process — aiming to do for research what AI coding assistants did for software development over the past year. The tool came from OpenAI’s acquisition of Crixet, a cloud-based science writing platform, which it rebuilt around its latest GPT 5.2 reasoning model.
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Open-source AI assistant Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) has gone viral for its impressive agentic capabilities, operating 24/7 from within Telegram or WhatsApp — though experts warn its full system access comes with serious risks. Moltbot runs locally and connects to users’ digital lives, proactively taking actions and messaging via chat apps when tasks are done.
Yahoo Scout is a new AI-powered 'answer engine' powered by Anthropic's Claude. It synthesizes information from the web and Yahoo's own data when constructing responses to natural language queries. The interface includes visible source links aimed at making answers easier to verify. The engine behind Scout will become more personalized as time goes on.
NVIDIA and CoreWeave expanded their partnership to build large AI data centers, aiming past five gigawatts of capacity by 2030. NVIDIA added a $2 billion equity stake to support land, grid access, and construction. The firms will co-test CoreWeave’s control software and deploy Rubin GPUs, Vera CPUs, and BlueField systems early to handle training and inference for major enterprise clients.
Investors really like Claude, it appears. The AI chatbot maker Anthropic has closed its latest funding round above its initial $10 billion target at a $350 billion valuation, ending somewhere between $10-15 billion. To add more fuel to it, the figure could still grow if Microsoft and Nvidia decide to contribute per their previously announced plans.
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