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🤖 How to Implement Tool Calling with Gemma 4 and Python
🦾Plus: 🏪 AI agent hires humans, opens boutique in SF
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In today's edition: An AI agent hired humans and opened a boutique in San Francisco. The first data center in space is live. And Meta is building a digital clone of Zuckerberg.👇
⚡Top 10 Free Open Source Business Intelligence Software!
☁️Anthropic introduces Ultraplan, enabling cloud-based planning
🔀Single-agent LLMs vs. Multi-agent systems
🖥️MiniMax opens up its coding agent model and ships a new CLI
🏪 AI agent hires humans, opens boutique in SF
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn any question into visualizations with Gemini
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
In this article, you will learn how to build a local, privacy-first tool-calling agent using the Gemma 4 model family and Ollama. Topics we will cover include: An overview of the Gemma 4 model family and its capabilities. How tool calling enables language models to interact with external functions. How to implement a local tool calling system using Python and Ollama.
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This data and the subsequent information is becoming essential for the businesses to plan their future development and marketing strategies. That is why the use of Open-Source Business Intelligence software is becoming the need of time.
Anthropic adds ultraplan to Claude Code, a feature that moves implementation planning from your terminal to the web. You write a task in the CLI, and Claude drafts a structured plan in a cloud session you can review in your browser. This separates planning from execution and gives you a clearer way to inspect and edit multi-step changes before running them.
It's still up for debate whether multi-agent AI is actually smarter or if it just relies on more compute. Interestingly, when you level the playing field on computing power, single agents often perform just as well, or even better than multi-agent systems, on complex reasoning.
MiniMax just released M2.7 as an open-weight download on Hugging Face, allowing teams to run the 230-billion-parameter model locally on 128GB RAM setups. It holds its own against top closed models on engineering benchmarks like SWE-Pro (56.22%) and Terminal Bench 2 (57.0%)
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
pg_embedding
Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.
dt
duct tape for your unix pipes.
AI News:
Meta is reportedly building an AI version of its CEO, trained on his mannerisms, tone, and internal strategy thinking, so employees can interact with a digital Zuckerberg when the real one is unavailable.
88% resolved. 22% loyal. Your stack has a problem.
Those numbers aren't a CX issue — they're a design issue. Gladly's 2026 Customer Expectations Report breaks down exactly where AI-powered service loses customers, and what the architecture of loyalty-driven CX actually looks like.
Andon Labs just dropped an AI agent named Luna into a real retail space with a $100K budget and a credit card, with the AI creating a boutique, hiring workers, and managing the shop as what may be the world's first AI employer. Andon Labs' last experiment was an AI vending machine at Anthropic, with the new one giving a 3-year lease, $100K budget, and total autonomy.
Kepler Communications now operates the largest compute cluster in orbit: 40 NVIDIA Orin GPUs across 10 satellites, all linked by laser. Its newest customer will attempt the first-ever remote OS boot across multiple spacecraft.
If you can’t beat them, copy them? Microsoft is reportedly looking for ways it can integrate Open Claw-style features into 365 Copilot as part of its efforts to make the AI assistant “run autonomously around the clock” completing tasks on behalf of users.
Meta is projected to surpass Google in net ad revenue this year. The company is seeing a lift in ad revenue thanks to new offerings and the broader boost that AI has provided. It invested significantly in establishing substantial user habits for its products before eventually introducing advertisements. Google's global growth is projected to remain flat this year.
AI Tutorial
How to turn any question into interactive visualizations with Gemini
Go to https://gemini.google.com/ and sign in.
Select the Pro model in the prompt bar.
Start your prompt with 'show me' or 'help me visualize' to explore a complex concept.
Example: "Show me how a double slit experiment works."
You can then manually adjust sliders or input exact numbers to see how those changes update the visualization in real time
This new feature is available to all users but only on the web (not mobile) for now.
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