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🐍 Microsoft released a free Python tutorial for MCP servers
🦾Plus: 🌞 NASA, IBM launch AI model to decode the sun
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🔗The Future of Blockchain Consulting
📂One Simple File Format for README for Coding Agents
⚡Research Paper → Full-Stack Code in One Click
☁️AWS in 2025
🔓 Grok exposes chats on Google
🤖Anthropic includes Claude Code in enterprise plans
💡 AI Tutorial:How to use the Copilot AI function in Excel
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Microsoft has released a free and interactive Python tutorial for MCP servers, to create AI agent applications that can access external tools and data sources. The hands-on guide walks through building two projects: a Python learning companion that generates personalized coding challenges, and an AI research discovery service that finds trending papers and creates study plans. The tutorial takes 15-75 minutes total and includes everything from basic MCP concepts to advanced implementations.
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Blockchain technology will undoubtedly play a significant role in the future given its ability to bring about significant changes and present fresh opportunities in nearly every industry, from banking to healthcare.
Claude Code expects a CLAUDE.md file, Cursor looks for .cursorrules, Google Jules reads AGENTS.md, and the list keeps growing as new agents launch. You either stick to one tool, or have to maintain multiple instruction files that essentially contain the same information about your codebase.
DeepCode is an opensource multi-agent system that automates the entire journey from research papers to production-ready implementations. You just need to give it the research paper, that’s it! The system handles everything from extracting algorithmic logic from academic documents to generating complete codebases with tests and documentation.
AWS is almost twenty years old, and many things have changed over the years. Even experienced veterans may find it hard to track all of the changes, and it's very easy to stumble upon outdated blog posts that talk about how things used to be. This post collects some of these changes to help keep developers current. It covers changes to EC2, S3, networking, Lambda, EFS, EBS, DynamoDB, cost saving vehicles, authentication, and more.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Turmoil is a testing framework for distributed systems. It can run multiple concurrent hosts within a single thread to provide deterministic execution.
ugrep-indexer
A monotonic indexer to speed up grepping by >10x.
pixi
pixi is a cross-platform, multi-language package manager and workflow tool build on the shoulders of the conda ecosystem. pixi supports Python, R, C/C++, Rust, Ruby, and many other languages.
SQLedge
Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the edge
AI News:
Google just unveiled the Pixel 10 lineup at its star-studded ‘Made by Google‘ event, powered by a new Tensor G5 chip and packed with 20+ AI features, including advanced photo editing, ‘Magic Cue’ suggestions, live translations, and more. A new ‘Visual Guidance’ upgrade allows Gemini Live to give real-time visual cues on a user’s phone screen.
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NASA and IBM just released Surya, a new AI foundation model trained on nine years of solar observations that predicts solar flares and space weather events with extreme accuracy. Surya analyzed millions of images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, learning to forecast solar eruptions and beating existing predictions by 16%.
Google just announced that the company is replacing its AI Assistant with Gemini across its Nest home speaker and display lines this fall, bringing advanced conversational AI, Gemini Live, and multi-device awareness to smart home control. Gemini for Home understands complex commands and can also handle multiple requests in a single sentence without requiring rigid voice commands.
Following in Meta’s footsteps, Grok has been exposing users’ conversations: When a user “shares” a chat, a unique link is created, which is indexed by search engines, like Google, which means anyone can see it. Currently, there’s no warning about this, and so far, over 370,000 conversations have been indexed by Google, with some of the conversations including sensitive information, like personal details.
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AI Tutorial
How to use the Copilot AI function in Excel
Open Microsoft Excel
Enter a natural language prompt in your spreadsheet with the =COPILOT function and reference cell values as needed
Sample Prompt: =COPILOT(prompt_part1, [context1], [prompt_part2], [context2], ...)
Prompt_part: Text that describes the task or question for the AI model
Context (optional): A reference from the grid that provides context or data for the AI model. This can be a single cell or a range
Within seconds Copilot will generate AI-powered results based on your prompt
You can use it to classify data, generate summaries, create lists or tables, etc.
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