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🎓 Generative AI: A Self-Study Roadmap
🦾Plus: Google acquires Windsurf 💰
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🏢 Agentic AI Architecture Framework for Enterprises
🛠️Top 10 ITSM tools for Your Organization
👨💻 Vibe Code with Multiple AI Coding Agents in Parallel
🚀 Moonshot AI’s K2 takes open-source crown
💰SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk's xAI
🤖Meta acquires voice start-up Play AI
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn text into audio on your phone using AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
It’s time to ditch traditional BI tools like static reports and slow dashboard. They simply don’t cut it anymore.
Sigma experts and industry leaders Luke Stock, Luke Stanke, and Tai Abukasis will take you behind the scenes for a deep dive introduction to Next Gen BI.
To deploy agentic AI responsibly and effectively in the enterprise, organizations must progress through a three-tier architecture: Foundation Tier, Workflow Tier, and Autonomous Tier where trust, governance, and transparency precede autonomy.
An IT service management (ITSM) tool is essential if you want your IT department to run smoothly. In addition, ITSM tools are an integral part of IT project management.
Vibe Kanban solves this babysitting-one-agent-at-a-time problem. You can queue up multiple coding tasks across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, and Amp, and track what they’re all doing through a clean kanban interface. Review completed work, plan future features, and track progress while your AI team handles the implementation details in the background.
The explosion of generative AI has transformed how we think about artificial intelligence. What started with curiosity about GPT-3 has evolved into a business necessity, with companies across industries racing to integrate text generation, image creation, and code synthesis into their products and workflows.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi-K2, a massive 1T parameter open-weights model that matches or beats frontier-level models across a range of benchmarks, with particular strength in coding and agentic tasks. K2 surpasses models like GPT-4.1 and Claude 4 Opus on coding benchmarks, also scoring new highs on math and STEM tests among non-reasoning systems.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
NativeLink
NativeLink is an open source high-performance build cache and remote execution server, compatible with Bazel, Buck2, Reclient, and other RBE-compatible build systems. It offers drastically faster builds, reduced test flakiness, and specialized hardware.
piku
The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.
git-spice
git-spice is a tool for stacking Git branches. It lets you manage and navigate stacks of branches, conveniently modify and rebase them, and create GitHub Pull Requests from them.
AI News:
Google is hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and several researchers in a $2.4B licensing deal, coming in the wake of the coding startup’s $3B acquisition deal with OpenAI collapsing over complications in its partnership with Microsoft. Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen will join Google to work on agentic coding for Gemini, with Windsurf remaining independent under an interim CEO.
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SpaceX agreed to invest $2 billion into xAI as part of xAI's $5 billion equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month. This is not the first time Elon Musk has mobilized his business empire to boost the AI startup. More business partnerships between SpaceX and xAI are likely in the future. SpaceX recently had more than $3 billion in cash on hand - the company rarely makes investments in outside ventures.
Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase Play AI, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. The news organization says the "entire PlayAI team" is joining Meta next week, based on the internal memo it has seen.
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OpenAI was riding high: $300B valuation, 500M weekly users, and the most hyped AI company on Earth. But now, the sharks are circling. Google, Meta, Amazon, even Microsoft, are applying pressure from every angle. What looked like dominance in March 2025 is now a messy battle to hold the throne.
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AI Tutorial
How to turn text into audio on your phone using AI
ElevenReader lets you listen to any text, articles, ePubs, and PDFs with ultra-realistic AI voices.
Download the app for Android or iOS and create an account.
After you land on the home page, click the plus button in the top right to add content.
The app lets you add content in three ways: select 'Write Text' to type or paste text, choose 'Paste Link' to convert a web page by entering its URL, or click 'Import File' to upload a file.
You can also choose from a variety of voices. To change, click the 'Voices' button.
*Note: The app supports multiple languages, including French, Arabic, German, Hindi, Spanish, Italian, and more.
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ClipNow easily convert your favorite videos into captivating TikToks, Reels and Shorts with just one click.
Repixify – An AI based text and content generation website that provides AI tools for creating compelling content
BlogFox is an AI-powered blogging tool that simplifies the creation of high-quality, SEO-optimized content.
ProJourney allows you to use Midjourney without having to go through Discord.
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