🤖 GitHub Copilot SDK

In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

• 🧩Types and Examples of NoSQL Databases

• 🔌Exposing SaaS functionality to agents in lieu of MCP

• 🐘Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

• 📐Spatial data science languages: commonalities and needs

• 💭 Sen. Markey questions ChatGPT ads

• 📱 TikTok forms US joint venture, names Adam Presser CEO

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to apply AI to real work problems in 5 minutes

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Build an agent into any app with the GitHub Copilot SDK

GitHub Copilot SDK allows developers to embed the same agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot CLI into any application. It provides programmatic access to the same production-tested execution loop, so developers don't have to manage context across turns, orchestrate tools and commands, route between models, integrate MCP servers, or think through permissions, safety boundaries, and failure modes.

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Types and Examples of NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases are growing with very rapid speed because of their exciting features like more flexibility and scalability, schema-free architecture, easy replication support, simple API, consistent / BASE (not ACID), support for big data and more.

Exposing SaaS functionality to agents in lieu of MCP

There is a lot of power in composing CLIs. With some creativity, it's possible for an individual to maintain CLIs instead of an MCP server. This post discusses how to expose SaaS functionality to agents without MCP. It provides examples of how to do so by giving an agent access to Google Docs and to Google Groups.

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

When it comes to database optimization, developers often reach for the same old tools: rewrite the query slightly differently, slap an index on a column, denormalize, analyze, vacuum, cluster, repeat. Conventional techniques are effective, but sometimes being creative can really pay off! In this article, I present unconventional optimization techniques in PostgreSQL…

Spatial data science languages: commonalities and needs

Recent workshops brought together several developers, educators and users of software packages extending popular languages for spatial data handling, with a primary focus on R, Python and Julia. Common challenges discussed included handling of spatial or spatio-temporal support, geodetic coordinates

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Recode (GitHub Repo)

Recode allows developers to run remote development environments on their own cloud.

Astro 1.0 (5 minute read)

Astro is a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. It features server-side rendering, image optimization, Markdown support, and a custom build engine. Version 1.0 was recently released.

DNS Reaper (GitHub Repo)

DNS Reaper is a subdomain takeover tool that can be used as an attacker, defender, or bug hunting tool.

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🗣️ Google brings on Hume’s CEO, engineers

Google DeepMind hired Hume AI's CEO and roughly seven engineers as part of a new licensing agreement, marking the latest acqui-hire move by the tech giant — with Hume’s emotionally intelligent voice tech set to be integrated into Gemini. CEO Alan Cowen and the engineering hires will help integrate voice and emotional intelligence into Google's models, including Gemini's voice features.

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🦾 Google adds personal context to AI

Google has rolled out Personal Intelligence to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, allowing them to opt in to connect Gmail and Google Photos to AI Mode in Search for tailored, context-aware results.

💭 Sen. Markey questions ChatGPT ads

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) has sent letters to OpenAI and six other AI companies demanding transparency about advertising plans in chatbots, warning that embedded ads "raise significant concerns for consumer protection, privacy, and the safety of young users."

📱 TikTok forms US joint venture, names Adam Presser CEO

TikTok has formed a joint venture to keep its platform operating in the US. Adam Presser, who has worked at TikTok for almost four years and was previously a senior executive at Warner Bros., will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture. TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director. The joint venture will operate under defined safeguards that protect national security.

💰Capital One Strikes $5.15 Billion Deal for Fintech Brex

Capital One Financial has agreed to buy Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock. Brex launched in 2017 to cater to startups that ran into difficulties getting corporate cards from traditional players. It is one of the youngest US startups to join the billion-dollar valuation club. Capital One expects to close the deal in the second quarter.

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