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🧠 Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro
🦾Plus: 💰 OpenAI is Nearing $850Bn+ Valuation
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🤖Agentic AI as a Catalyst for Enterprise AI Transformation
👨💻 Building An Elite AI Engineering Culture In 2026
🏭The Software Shakeout: What Is Durable and What Is Not in the Age of AI?
📊How to stay in control when doing EDA with coding agents
💰 OpenAI is Nearing $850Bn+ Valuation
💡 AI Tutorial:Turn product photos into scroll-stopping videos
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Google just released Gemini 3.1 Pro, bringing a massive reasoning upgrade, benchmark-topping performance, and overall SOTA capabilities while keeping API pricing identical to its predecessor. 3.1 Pro scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark, up from 31.1% on Gemini 3 Pro and passing both Opus 4.6 (68.8%) and GPT-5.2 (52.9%).
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In 2026, enterprises no longer ask if they should adopt artificial intelligence; now they want to know how fast they can evolve with it. Classical AI systems are being demonstrated to show their limitations in agility, scalability, and autonomy; hence a new frontier was born, that of Agentic AI.
The winning formula in early 2026 is structured context, tiered rigor, smaller teams with higher leverage, and relentless measurement of downstream effects. The teams that adapt AI tools without the underlying taste and discipline are discovering that AI just makes their existing problems bigger.
The most value has always historically accrued to the companies that did the hardest things. Three weeks ago, investors took a pause from plowing money into AI infrastructure to consider what all those dollars were meant to disrupt, and promptly wiped out $1T in software market cap.
In this blog post, I share how coding agents can supercharge data analysis, but only if we stay in control. By slowing down, asking the right questions, and structuring sessions with journals and artifact gating, we avoid chaos and keep our scientific thinking sharp.
This handbook explains the full voice AI stack from STT to orchestration with clear examples, trade-offs, and frameworks for scaling.
Whether you’re developing in-house or integrating APIs, Building Voice Conversational Agents at Scale will help you design faster, smarter, and more reliable systems.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
StarGuard (GitHub Repo)
Fake stars are rampant and supply chain attacks are rising. StarGuard is a command-line tool for detecting fake-star campaigns, dependency hijacks, license red flags, and other signals of open-source risk.
Airweave (GitHub Repo)
Airweave is an MCP-compatible tool that lets agents semantically search any app.
Simple Agent API: a robust, production-ready application for serving Agents as an API. A minimal, open-source setup for serving Agents using FastAPI and Postgres. Built for speed, clarity, and dev happiness.
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Good news for Alexa’s parent. Amazon has dethroned Walmart as the company with the largest annual revenue for the first time. While the shuffle is largely symbolic, it exacerbates the retail rivalry between the companies, particularly as Walmart copies Amazon’s alternate revenue stream playbook with marketplace advertising.
100 million weekly ChatGPT users in India, and OpenAI wants more. They’re partnering on data centers, rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise, handing out 100k Edu licenses, and opening new offices. This is a land grab.
ChatGPT is getting deeper pockets. OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a deal to raise more than $100 billion at a valuation that could exceed $850 billion. The deal comes as the AI leader burns through cash as it inches toward profitability.
Google Labs has launched a new Photoshoot feature inside its Pomelli marketing platform. Users can upload a simple product image, even one taken on a phone, and the tool recreates it with studio-style lighting, styled backgrounds, and polished composition. It can add marble counters, cozy interiors, or clean gradients, refine shadows and textures, and apply ad-ready templates.
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AI Tutorial
📸 Turn product photos into scroll-stopping videos
In this guide, you'll learn how to turn a product photo into a cinematic clip ready for social media using Runway's video generation tool. This method excels at creating consistent clips that are ready for ad campaigns and product announcements.
Step-by-step:
Grab a product photo first — Runway will use it for the start frame. Don’t have a product? Use a software mockup or ask Gemini to generate one for the brand
Drop the photo into any AI, prompting: "Write me a brief video prompt to use in Runway to generate a social media video based on this product photo. Add animations and/or camera movement if applicable"
Next, go to Runway > Tool > Video and add your starting frame and the AI-generated prompt
Rinse and repeat for the rest of your product photos. Try different combinations of text overlay and music when you post them to socials
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