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🦾Plus: 🍃 Meta Trains AI on China’s Qwen
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
⚛️The Future of Quantum Computing and Its Implications
📌How Pinterest built a real‑time radar for violative content using AI
🧾A modern guide to SQL JOINs
🤖How to Build Your First ChatGPT App
🧠 Zoom claims new SOTA on AI reasoning benchmark
🍃 Meta Trains AI on China’s Qwen
💡 AI Tutorial:Create and deploy voice agents for your business
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
For engineers working on self-contained technical projects, the only explanation for bad code is incompetence. Other engineers operate more like plumbers or electricians, working on projects with awkward or surprising parts that are relatively new to them. In these cases, bad code is inevitable, but as long as the overall system works well enough, the project is a success.
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Harnessing the vast potential of quantum computing isn’t a walk in the park. Researchers must coordinate efforts, manage resources, and keep projects on track as researchers push boundaries. This is where the top project management tools step in.
Pinterest created an AI system to measure how often users see harmful content on their platform. The system samples content based on user views and uses AI to label it, providing daily reports on policy violations. This replaced expensive human reviews that took six months, giving Pinterest real-time insights to quickly detect problems and improve safety measures.
Alexey's technical guide takes a fresh approach to teaching SQL JOINs by starting with LEFT JOIN instead of INNER JOIN. It emphasizes using only ID equality comparisons in ON conditions and avoiding the confusing 1:N case of LEFT JOIN. He presents JOINs through practical examples with an employee payment database.
ChatGPT Apps allow developers and product teams to embed apps directly into ChatGPT, enabling users to complete tasks like book hotels, search for properties, and shop online. With a platform of 800 million weekly active users, ChatGPT's app platform may be the next great distribution wave.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
SQLSync (GitHub Repo)
SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge.
unsloth provides 80% faster and 50% less memory local QLoRA finetuning without any change in hardware.
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Native CI/CD for Snowflake: The era of fragile data pipelines is over.
Snyk's New Ebook: Securing the MCP Servers Ecosystem, is your guide to protecting the “universal adapters” that connect AI assistants and IDEs to real systems.
AI News:
Zoom just announced that its ‘federated’ AI system scored 48.1% on Humanity’s Last Exam, surpassing Google Gemini on one of the industry’s most demanding expert-level reasoning tests. Zoom’s federated approach orchestrates top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google with its own small models through a “Z-scorer” selection system.
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Meta shared Llama with the world in 2023, Alibaba used it to build Qwen, and now Meta is training its new Avocado model on Qwen. This role reversal shows how open-source AI creates unexpected dependencies between tech giants.
Adobe has plugged Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express directly into ChatGPT, letting users edit images, PDFs, and designs through plain text commands. Photo edits like background changes or effects happen inside chat. Express covers fast design tasks such as invites or social posts.
Huawei’s newest handset runs on an improved China-made chip,showing clear progress in domestic semiconductor capabilities. Local expertise in high-end chip design is rising quickly.Amid US export restrictions, Huawei’s use of domestic chips signals firms are closing the technology gap. Reliance on foreign suppliers is declining.
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its Tinker artificial intelligence fine-tuning service into general availability. San Francisco-based Thinking Machines was founded in February by Mira Murati (pictured), the former chief technology officer of OpenAI Group PBC. During her time at the AI provider, Murati oversaw the development of ChatGPT, Sora and other products.
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Select voice preference, click "Generate", then test using the dialer at +1 (515) 800-8360 - verify response speed, order handling, and voice clarity
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