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🤖 How Hugging Face built its MCP Server
🦾Plus: 🤖 Softbank: First billion AI agents by 2025
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧠AI Agent Architecture: Revolutionizing Intelligent Automation
📊 Anthropic drops a Claude-powered financial analysis tool
⚙️How Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow Work Together
🤖 Build AI agents in n8n
🤖 Softbank: First billion AI agents by 2025
🤝 Cursor Acquired Koala to Compete With GitHub Copilot
🚀 Vibe coding startup Lovable catapults to unicorn status
💡 AI Tutorial:How to automate research with Claude Sonnet
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is fulfilling its promise of being the standard to connect AI Assistants to the outside world. At Hugging Face, providing access to the Hub via MCP is an obvious choice, and this article shares our experience developing the hf.co/mcp MCP Server.
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AI agent architecture refers to the underlying framework and design of artificial intelligence systems that enable agents to perform specific tasks autonomously. These agents act in dynamic environments, making decisions based on input data from the surroundings, processing that information, and taking appropriate actions.
Today, we're introducing a comprehensive solution for financial analysis that transforms how finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make investment decisions with Claude. The Financial Analysis Solution unifies your financial data—from market feeds to internal data stored in platforms like Databricks and Snowflake—into a single interface.
To do that, I needed a structured approach. Using the CRISP-DM methodology, I built an end-to-end urban data pipeline powered by Snowflake, dbt, and Apache Airflow. The goal? To centralize urban data, track city expansion, and extract insights that could help shape better urban planning.
"Building AI Agents" tutorial series! In this video, Max walks you through everything you need to know to get started with AI Agents in n8n, the powerful workflow automation tool.
Through Squarespace’s cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brand’s goals, name, and personality. It’s AI speed, with Squarespace’s 20+ years of design expertise in website building.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Corcel (GitHub Repo)
Corcel is a collection of PHP classes that provides a fluent interface for connecting and getting data directly from a WordPress database.
Dorkly Feature Flags (GitHub Repo)
Dorkly is a free feature flag system for LaunchDarkly's open source SDKs. It allows developers to implement feature flagging consistently across dozens of languages.
Joé Dupuis has noticed an influx of videos and blog posts about the "correct" way of working with AI agents. Joé thinks most of it is bad advice, and has a better approach he wants to show you.
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.
AI News:
"The era when humans program is nearing its end within our group", says Softbank founder Masayoshi Son. "Our aim is to have AI agents completely take over coding and programming. (...) we are currently initiating the process for that."
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How many AI researchers does it take to write a paper? According to Google: 3,295, plus one secret Easter egg.This week, researchers discovered that Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper also hid a surprise. If you take the first initials of the paper’s first 43 authors, there’s bigger message: AI development has become a massive team sport, model papers starting to look more like phone books.
Anysphere, the startup behind the viral AI coding app Cursor, is acquiring AI-powered customer relationship management (CRM) startup Koala to bolster its competition with Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. Cursor will bring on several of Koala’s top engineers to build out a dedicated enterprise-readiness team, but they won’t get Koala’s entire team and Cursor has no plans to integrate the startup’s core CRM product.
Despite being less than a year old, Swedish AI startup Lovable just landed $200M in a Series A round that values the app-building platform at $1.8B. With 2.3M active users, the company has made a name for itself by catering to non-coders, including many who use it to draft mockups and prototypes before bringing them to developers for additional help.
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AI Tutorial
How to automate research with Claude Sonnet
Go to Claude and sign up with your account
Select ‘Claude Sonnet 4’ as your model, enter your prompt, and press Enter
Enable web search for a quick response and Research for a more detailed report
Sample Prompt: “You are a world-class strategy consultant trained by McKinsey, BCG, and Bain, hired to deliver a $300K strategic analysis for a client in the [INDUSTRY] sector. Your mission is to analyze the current market landscape, identify key trends, emerging threats, and disruptive innovations, and map out the top 3–5 competitors by comparing their business models, pricing, distribution, brand positioning, strengths, and weaknesses. Use frameworks like SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces to assess risks and opportunities. Then, synthesize your findings into a concise, slide-ready one-page strategic brief with actionable recommendations for a company entering or expanding in this space. Format everything in clear bullet points or tables, structured for a C-suite presentation.”
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