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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📊Top 50 Big Data Analytics Tools and Software
🔗Google Unifies Model and Agent with Interactions API
🌐 Olmo 3: Advancing Open-Source AI
☁️ Google Launches Fully Managed Remote MCP Servers
🤖 Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 open models for agentic AI
💰 Lightspeed secures $9B in record VC fundraise
💡 AI Tutorial:How to use Adobe Photoshop in ChatGPT
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever hit the industry. Others believe they’re the latest in a long line of hype-only products: exciting to think about, but ultimately not useful to professionals trying to do serious work.
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In this blog, we will be discussing the top 50 big data analytics tools (in no particular order) that are being leveraged by data scientists.
Google just dropped a game-changer for agent developers: a single API that handles both models and agents, complete with their first built-in agent that can autonomously execute multi-day research tasks. The Interactions API fundamentally rethinks how you build agentic applications by providing server-side state management, background execution, and native support for complex conversation patterns with interleaved thoughts and tool calls - all through one RESTful endpoint.
Allen AI returns to a familiar question in open-source language models: does reinforcement learning still help after the first gains flatten out? With Olmo 3.1, the answer stays yes. Instead of new architectures, the team takes the existing Olmo 3 flow and simply runs it longer, then releases everything.
Google just launched fully-managed, remote MCP servers that connect AI agents directly to Google and Google Cloud services. No more wrestling with local installations or fragile deployments. The initial rollout includes BigQuery for querying enterprise data in-place, Google Maps for grounding agents in real-world location data, and GCE/GKE for autonomous infrastructure management.
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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:
Nvidia just introduced its Nemotron 3, a family of open models designed specifically for building multi-agent AI systems — marking the chipmaker’s most significant push yet into frontier model development. The lineup spans three sizes: Nano (30B), Super (100B), and Ultra (500B), with Nano available now and the larger versions coming in 2026.
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OpenAI has appointed Albert Lee, a senior director of corporate development at Google, as its vice president of corporate development. Lee reports to finance chief Sarah Friar, bringing extensive M&A expertise from his 14-year tenure at Google, where he led corporate development for Google Cloud and DeepMind.
PayPal has filed with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to establish PayPal Bank. As a Utah-chartered industrial lone company, the bank will be able to lend money, hold FDIC-insured deposits, and be owned by a non-financial institution
Software from an iPhone prototype running an early build of iOS 26 leaked last week. This article lists the most notable feature flags found in the software code. The list shows what Apple was working on around June. Some of the features include Vision Pro stickers, Live Captions, Tilt to Scroll, and a Dynamic Sports Tier Manager.
Lightspeed Venture Partners raised $9B across six funds, marking the largest capital haul in the firm's history. The fundraising comes as partners concentrate capital with established firms. Lightspeed focused heavily on AI, claiming 165 AI-native portfolio companies, including Anthropic, xAI, and Databricks.
AI Tutorial
How to use Adobe Photoshop in ChatGPT
Adobe just brought Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat into ChatGPT so you can edit photos, design visuals, and polish documents just by describing what you want. Here’s how:
Sign in to ChatGPT.
Go to “Settings” > Apps & Connectors > Adobe Photoshop/Acrobat/Express > Connect
Additional details can be found here: Edit with Photoshop in ChatGPT | Adobe Blog
For Adobe Photoshop: Upload an image and type prompts to remove objects, change backgrounds, or apply effects. Use sliders to adjust settings.
For Acrobat: Upload and edit PDFs, extract text, convert formats, merge/split files, compress documents, and add watermarks.
For Express: Search Adobe Express’ vast template library to find the best one for any moment, replace images and text, and animate elements to generate content on the fly.
Log in to ChatGPT and start creating your next big idea today.
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