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🦾Plus: 📳 OpenAI to allow erotica on ChatGPT
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🏆25 Best AI Agent Platforms to Use in 2025
⏱️Build agents that handle days-long tasks without collapsing
🐍10 Python One-Liners for Calling LLMs from Your Code
🔬MIT paper shows LLMs can learn and fine-tune itself without human input
🧠 Nvidia brings personal AI supercomputer to your desk
🛒 Walmart adds ChatGPT to online shopping
💡 AI Tutorial:How to translate videos into multiple languages
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
The GitHub Spec Kit was born out of research on how to help steer the software development process with large language models more deterministically. It implements the concept of Spec-Driven Development to help developers produce deterministically good software.
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You don’t always need a heavy wrapper, a big client class, or dozens of lines of boilerplate to call a large language model. Sometimes one well-crafted line of Python does all the work: send a prompt, receive a response. That kind of simplicity can speed up prototyping or embedding LLM calls inside scripts or pipelines without architectural overhead.
MIT researchers present SEAL (Self-Adapting Language Models), a system that lets language models generate their own fine-tuning data and weight updates. This enables persistent adaptation without external supervision. The model produces a “self-edit” in natural language that can restructure input, choose hyperparameters, or trigger data augmentation to guide its own learning.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
pg_embedding
Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.
dt
duct tape for your unix pipes.
AI News:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just announced personality improvements planned for ChatGPT, including one that would allow the AI assistant to have mature, erotic conversations with eligible users — much like xAI’s Grok companions. Altman said ChatGPT was made restrictive to protect at-risk users, but that hit enjoyment. Now, with age checks and safeguards, OpenAI will ease those limits.
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Walmart is rolling out an AI shopping assistant built on OpenAI’s technology, allowing customers to interact in natural language to discover, compare, and get products through conversational recommendations. The assistant integrates with Walmart’s online storefront and app, guiding users through product discovery, comparisons, and personalized suggestions using ChatGPT’s generative capabilities.
InclusionAI, Ant Group’s AGI initiative, unveiled Ring-1T, an open-source “thinking model” that internally achieved silver-level on the International Mathematical Olympiad, sitting right behind Google and OAI’s gold-level models. Built atop Inclusion’s MoE design, Ring-1T runs on 1T parameters (50B active) with a 128K context window for ultra-long reasoning and multi-turn thinking.
A Graphite study just found that AI-written articles briefly surpassed human-created ones on the web in late 2024, but the boom has since leveled off, with the web now split roughly evenly between human and AI authors. Graphite analyzed 65,000 articles from Common Crawl, published between 2020 and 2025, using Surfer’s AI detector to determine authorship.
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AI Tutorial
How to translate videos into multiple languages
Go to HeyGen and sign up.
Select ‘Translate a Video’ from the dashboard
Now, upload your video file or paste a YouTube or Drive URL
Select your source and target languages
Click ‘Advanced’ to add dynamic duration, captions, voice enhancement, and background music removal, etc.
Once done, click ‘Generate’ to get your video translated into your preferred language
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