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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🏗️Exploring the Architecture of LLMs
🤝Anthropic updates the Claude Agent SDK
🎓OpenAI launches two certification courses
🤖 DeepSeek’s Forbidden GPUs
📈 Nous Research's AI takes on elite math exam
📱 ChatGPT is Apple’s Most Downloaded U.S. App of 2025
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create brand-friendly mockups with Nano Banana Pro
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
2025 was said to be the year that AI agent technology went mainstream. Today we are announcing Perplexity and Harvard researchers have published the first large-scale study of how people actually use AI agents in the real world.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant notion; it is very much a current transformational force. There is a hint of AI in almost everything, from your Netflix account to real-time translation of languages. Right at the core of a number of these intelligent systems is a powerful tool: The Large Language Model (LLM).
Nous Research just open-sourced Nomos 1, a new 30B parameter reasoning system that scored 87 out of 120 on the 2025 Putnam Contest — crushing rivals like Qwen 3 on one of the most prestigious collegiate math competitions. The system uses a two-phase approach: AI ‘workers’ solve and self-critique responses, with a tournament-style bracket then selecting the best submission.
Anthropic updates the Claude Agent SDK with 1M context support, sandboxing, and a simpler TypeScript interface
OpenAI launching a pair of new courses that will provide practical AI skills: AI Foundations, launching in ChatGPT through pilot programs with a group of leading employers and public-service partners, and ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers, available today in Coursera.
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AI News:
The Information says DeepSeek is training its next model on thousands of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, which are chips the U.S. explicitly banned from China. Investigators call it smuggling, engineers call it survival. Nvidia denies wrongdoing, but the silence from everyone else is louder: no one builds frontier AI on wishful silicon.
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Design tool Figma launched new AI-powered image-editing features today, including the ability to remove and isolate objects and expand images.The company said that these features will save the hassle of exporting images to other tools for editing and importing them back. It added that generation models like Nano Banana are good for creating images, but users often need granular tools for editing that work without any text prompts.
Microsoft just published new research analyzing 37.5M Copilot conversations from the past year, revealing distinct behavioral patterns in how users engage with the AI assistant across different devices, time periods, and topics. Health and wellness queries dominated mobile use regardless of hour or month, positioning phones as around-the-clock personal wellness companions.
Your new AI bestie just reached new heights. OpenAI’s ChatGPT topped the list of free iPhone apps (not including games) with the most installs in the U.S. in 2025. The AI app was followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, and Google’s Gemini.
AI Tutorial
How to create brand-friendly mockups with Nano Banana Pro
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Go to Gemini and sign up.
Click Tools > Create Image 🍌
Upload a screenshot of the website to the image generator
copy + customize prompt below:
Sample Prompt: Remove the browser UI and place the pasted website screenshot naturally on the screen of an [Apple Pro Display].
Use the screenshot to guide:
- Interior Style: [everyday, modern, approachable, clean lines, soft color accents]
- Profession of the Space Owner: [software product manager]
- Mood: [dark walls, well-staged but lived-in, creative, and realistic]
- Time of day: [night]
Camera: high-end lifestyle brand film photography, long focal length, close-up framing with shallow depth of field, soft bokeh, slight chromatic aberration at the edges.
Intent: a cohesive, high-quality but approachable scene where the environment gently mirrors the screenshot’s style without feeling luxurious or overly curated.
Within seconds, you’ll get your personal brand mock-ups ready to share.
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