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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🔮Top 15 Artificial Intelligence Trends to watch In 2025
💻Gemini CLI now integrates into VS Code
🔄Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines
🐍Google released a Python library for data extraction!
😎 HTC’s new AI glasses take aim at Meta
💊 AI’s new antibiotics to fight superbugs
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create studio-quality tracks instantly
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Google released MCP Toolbox for Databases, an open source MCP server that helps AI agents interact with SQL databases safely and efficiently. It simplifies tool development by handling infrastructure-level concerns like connection pooling, authentication, and observability, so you can focus on defining what the agent should do.
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Artificial Intelligence is becoming an integral part of many organizations’ business plans. Already the journey of digital transformation has catapulted thanks to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and because of the pandemic situation.
The CLI now reads your open files and text selections while rendering AI suggestions through VS Code's native diff interface, letting you modify code directly within the preview. Installation takes seconds: run /ide install from your integrated terminal, then toggle with /ide enable to activate workspace-aware AI assistance.
This course is my take on setting up code that results in some data product. This code has to be reproducible, documented and production ready. Not my original idea, but introduced by the UK’s Analysis Function. The basic idea of a reproducible analytical pipeline (RAP) is to have code that always produces the same result when run, whatever this result might be.
LangExtract is a python library that extracts structured information from unstructured text documents with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.Precise source grounding – maps each extraction to its exact location in the source text for easy traceability and verification
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
This repository contains the React components for the Cloudscape Design System. Cloudscape is a design system for building web applications that offers interactive guidelines, frontend components, design resources, and development tools
DwarFS is a read-only file system with very high compression ratios for very redundant data.
kvass is a personal key-value store.
AI News:
Google released Gemma 3 270M, an even smaller version of its open-source model family, which can run directly on smartphones, browsers, and other consumer devices while remaining efficient and capable at the same time. Gemma 3 270M outperforms similarly small AI systems at following instructions, despite being a fraction of the size of most current models.
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Taiwanese giant HTC introduced Vive Eagle, a new line of AI glasses that let users choose between AI assistants and feature strong battery life, advanced translation capabilities, and other features to challenge Meta’s Ray-Ban dominance. Users can switch between AI models from OpenAI and Google for the wearable’s assistant, activated via a “Hey Vive” voice command.
MIT researchers just used AI to design two new antibiotics capable of killing drug-resistant gonorrhea and MRSA bacteria, potentially opening a new front against infections that cause millions of deaths annually. Scientists trained AI models to generate 36M theoretical compounds, then screened them for bacteria-killing potential and human safety.
Google has beta-launched a new AI-powered search tool—Flight Deals—which allows users to describe how, when, and where they want to travel (in natural language), and the AI will surface relevant options. Google has suggested that the tool is suitable for “flexible travellers” who are looking for a cheaper deal, and gave an example query of: “ A week-long trip this winter to a city with great food.”
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Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $500 million, boosting its valuation to $6.8 billion. The round was led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, alongside investors like AMD Ventures, Nvidia, and Salesforce Ventures. Cohere builds enterprise-focused AI, including its recently launched Command Vision model and ChatGPT-style tool, North.
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AI Tutorial
How to create studio-quality tracks instantly
Go to ElevenLabs and sign in.
Select the Music option on the left and describe your song. You can choose any genre or style, vocals or instrumental. (You can also use ChatGPT or another chatbot to help with this part.)
Set the duration and number of variants, then click Generate.
After a few seconds, you’ll get your studio-quality song, which you can share or download.
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