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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
💳Top 5 Generative AI Use Cases Transforming the FinTech Industry
🔌 Anthropic Added Agentic Plug-ins to Cowork
🧠Ai2 debuts Theorizer with open-source code
💻Do you still use notebooks in Data Science?
🔌 Anthropic Added Agentic Plug-ins to Cowork
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Use Claude in Chrome to Research
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
A Senior ML Engineer’s perspective on production constraints, rules vs ML and the workflow behind large-scale recommender systems…We talked about his rise from software engineering to machine learning at Instacart, how does he decide between rules based vs ML approaches and how he approaches the work now as a more senior stakeholder.
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Let’s delve into five paramount generative AI applications within the FinTech realm, showcasing their potential to elevate operational efficiency and customer service. Let’s see!
Anthropic’s latest release is getting a new release Cowork, Anthropic’s agentic tool launched earlier this month, has a new plug-ins feature to make the non-coder translator even more powerful for enterprise users. The plug-ins are designed to automate “specialized” tasks within a company’s various departments.
Researchers already automate experiments, but they still read hundreds of papers to extract laws. Theorizer flips that workflow by reading the literature first and writing theories directly. The striking part: it synthesizes explicit scientific laws from up to 100 papers per query.
I work as a data scientist and I usually build models in a notebook and then create them into a python script for deployment. Lately, I’ve been wondering if this is the most efficient approach and I’m curious to learn about any hacks, workflows or processes you use to speed things up or stay organized…Especially now that AI tools are everywhere and GenAI still not great at working with notebooks…
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
tiny-gpu (GitHub Repo)
tiny-gpu is a minimal GPU implementation in Verilog optimized for learning about how GPUs work from the ground up.
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The Perseverance rover’s drive on December 8 was the first in history planned entirely by an AI. Anthropic’s Claude handled the full mission planning, marking a genuine milestone for autonomous systems in space exploration.
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More big news this week for Nvidia. China has given its top AI startup DeepSeek approval to buy the chip leader’s H200 artificial intelligence chips with regulatory conditions that are still being finalized. The deal would add onto the recent Chinese purchase of more than 400,000 H200 chips to ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent.
Remember Bluesky? It’s still kicking, and it’s released its first transparency report. The report documented actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives, but also notes that, during the past year, users made 1.41 billion posts on the platform which represented 61% of all posts ever made on Bluesky.
Invideo launched AI Motion Graphics with Anthropic. Think vibecoding for motion design. The cost of professional motion work just dropped to zero. All generated from a single prompt. Small teams can now produce the same quality as large agencies.
In YouTube's official 2026 roadmap, Neal Mohan directly acknowledged concerns about low-quality AI content flooding the platform. The company is building on its spam and clickbait systems to reduce the spread of “repetitive” AI videos.
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AI Tutorial
How to Use Claude in Chrome to Research Anything on the Web
Install the ‘Claude in Chrome’ extension from Chrome webstore.
Navigate to the website you want Claude to work with (for example, Zillow, Amazon, or any research site).
Click the Claude Chrome extension icon in your browser and type your request in plain English.
Sample Prompt: I'm looking for a 3-bedroom house in Seattle under $800K, with a garage and at least 1500sqft. Can you search Zillow and show me the top 5 options?
Claude can see the page you’re on, interact with it, and take actions on your behalf: clicking, scanning listings, and gathering information.
Within seconds, it searches relevant sources and returns the top 5 options that match your criteria, saving you time and mental effort.
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