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🤖 Information Theory Guide for Machine Learning
🦾Plus: 🍌 Google launches Nano Banana Pro image AI model
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🖥️Top 21 Best JavaScript Frameworks to Use in 2025
🧠Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design
📄How to write a great agents.md: Lessons
🌐Introducing Manus Browser Operator
☄️ Perplexity brings its Comet browser to Android.
👩🏫 OpenAI launches "ChatGPT for Teachers"
💡 AI Tutorial:How to schedule meetings in Gmail with AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Information theory gives you the mathematical tools to measure and work with uncertainty in data. When you select features for a model, optimize a neural network, or build a decision tree, you’re applying principles Shannon developed over 75 years ago. This guide connects Shannon’s original insights to the information theory concepts you use in machine learning today.
Introducing WhatsApp Business Calls in Synthflow
65% of people still prefer voice, but 40% of business calls go unanswered. Now Synthflow Voice AI Agents can answer WhatsApp calls directly — resolving issues, booking, and following up 24/7 with full analytics.
JavaScript has gained massive popularity in the development community. It has transformed the web application development horizon. As per Stackoverflow Developer Survey 2025, JavaScript is the most popular programming, scripting, and markup language with a 63.61% vote share.
Neuroevolution, or optimization of neural networks through evolutionary computation, has been a growing subarea of machine learning since the 1990s. Its primary focus is on evolving neural networks for intelligent agents when the training targets are not known, and good performance requires many decisions over time, such as robotic control, game playing, and decision-making.
GitHub's agents.md feature allows developers to create agents with custom instructions. agents.md is where developers define all of the specifics, provide code style examples, and set clear boundaries of what not to do. Most agent files fail because they're too vague.
Manus rolled out Browser Operator, a new browser extension that allows its AI agent to operate directly within users' local browsers. This is a powerful extension that transforms your browser from a passive viewing tool into an active, intelligent agent. Manus can now securely take action within your pages, executing complex tasks as if you were doing them yourself.
Q4 is the perfect window to turn this year’s numbers into a clear, actionable forecast aligned with your goals. Set your business up for a stronger 2026 with BELAY’s new guide.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Coresignal’s Free Webinar: How to Evaluate External Data Quality with Confidence. Join Coresignal’s free, vendor-neutral webinar on December 2, where Data Analyst Egidijus Griska will share practical tools and metrics you need to be confident when assessing B2B data.
Homebrew 5.0.0 is now available. The most significant changes since 4.6.0 are download concurrency by default, official support for Linux ARM64/AArch64, timescales for deprecating macOS Intel, and the removal of macOS Gatekeeper bypass behaviours.
Stripe AI (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a collection of software development kits for integrating Stripe with large language models and agent frameworks.
AI News:
Google DeepMind has released Nano Banana Pro, an image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. It creates high-fidelity visuals with accurate multilingual text, advanced editing controls, and embedded SynthID watermarking for transparency. The model is rolling out across Gemini, Google Ads, Workspace, and AI Studio.
CTV ads made easy: Black Friday edition
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Google began its global Gemini rollout to Android Auto users on November 20, embedding conversational AI into vehicles worldwide. The deployment spans 45 languages and will continue over the next two months.
Perplexity is launching its AI-powered browser on Android. The new Comet app is available to download now, and it comes with many of the same features as the desktop version of the browser, including the ability to summon Perplexity’s built-in AI assistant while you surf the web.
OpenAI is rolling out "ChatGPT for Teachers," a free version of its AI chatbot for verified K-12 teachers in the United States. The offer runs through June 2027 and includes a secure workspace that, according to the company, does not use data for model training by default. OpenAI says teachers are already seeing time savings in lesson planning and other daily tasks.
Android's Quick Share now works with Apple's AirDrop system. Apple devices will now appear in the Quick Share interface on Android, and Android devices will appear on macOS devices. The two-way sharing works for photos, videos, and other files.
AI Tutorial
How to schedule meetings in Gmail with AI
Open Gmail and reply to the email requesting a meeting.
Click “Help me schedule” on the bottom right.
Gmail + Gemini scans your Google Calendar and the email context.
It auto-suggests ideal meeting times based on your real availability.
Pick the slots you like and insert them into your email with one click.
Edit or customize any slot if needed (add locations, change durations, or remove conflicts).
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🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
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aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
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aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
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