🚀 Mistral’s Devstral 2 and new coding assistant

In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

• 🤖AI Agents: The Future of Intelligent Automation

• 🛠️Fine-tune LLM agents without fine-tuning LLMs

• 📚Data Filtering: Knowledge Localization for Capability Removal in LLMs

• 💻Alibaba updates Qwen Code with cleaner streaming

• 🤖 Meta AI internal confusion

• 🎄 McDonald’s pulls AI holiday ad

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to restore old photos with NanoBanana

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

The era of fragile data pipelines is over.

🚀 Mistral’s Devstral 2 and new coding assistant

French AI startup Mistral just launched Devstral 2, the next-gen version of its coding-focused model family — alongside Vibe CLI, the company’s first move into autonomous coding agents. Mistral’s 123B Devstral 2 scores a 72.2% on the SWE-bench Verified, nearly matching the top open-weight model (Deepseek V3.2) while being 5x smaller.

AI Agents: The Future of Intelligent Automation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century. Within the broad field of AI, one particularly impactful concept is that of the AI agent. As businesses, governments, and individuals increasingly adopt AI-powered systems, understanding what AI agents are, how they function, and what their implications are has become essential.

Fine-tune LLM agents without fine-tuning LLMs

Memento is a memory based continual learning framework for LLM agents that lets them learn from experience over time without touching model weights.

Data Filtering: Knowledge Localization for Capability Removal in LLMs

Anthropic introduces SGTM with a story many developers know: you try to keep certain knowledge out of a model, but filtering the dataset never works. Risky details hide in normal documents, labels miss things, and the model still absorbs what you hoped to avoid.

Alibaba updates Qwen Code with cleaner streaming and modular adapter design

Qwen releases a new Qwen Code update that addresses common friction in LLM-driven development workflows. Many teams rely on structured pipelines, yet traditional text streams and tightly coupled interfaces make integration difficult. This release introduces clearer data paths, modular components, and predictable behavior designed for engineering environments.

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Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text using GPT-3.

AI News:

🤖From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion

Meta is currently pursuing a Llama successor codenamed Avocado. The model is expected to be released before the end of this year. Meta seems to have shifted from its open source stance - Avocado could be a proprietary model. Some people at Meta were reportedly upset that DeepSeek used pieces of Llama's architecture in its R1 model, so the company decided to overhaul its strategy.

Shoppers are adding to cart for the holidays

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🎄 McDonald’s pulls AI holiday ad

McDonald’s Netherlands quietly pulled a 45-second AI-generated Christmas ad after it sparked widespread mockery online. The spot leaned into fast cuts and surreal visuals common in AI video. Viewers called it unpleasant and cheap, leading McDonald’s to disable comments and remove the video.

🕵️ EU probes Google AI content use

The European Commission has opened a competition investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI training. Regulators are assessing whether web publishers and YouTube creators are forced to allow their content to train models like Gemini, without fair payment or opt-out options.

📹 Amazon Ring rolls out AI facial recognition

Amazon’s Ring is rolling out “Familiar Faces,” an AI-powered facial recognition feature for its video doorbells across the United States. The tool allows users to build a catalog of up to 50 faces for personalized alerts, and it drew immediate criticism from privacy advocates, given Ring’s history of security failures and law enforcement partnerships.

🤝 OpenAI, Anthropic, Block team up on agent standards

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block just co-founded the Agentic AI Foundation, a neutral entity governed under the Linux Foundation — with each company pooling open-source tools to build standards across the AI agent ecosystem. Each founding company is donating a core project — Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, OAI's AGENTS.md, and Block's Goose agent framework.

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AI Tutorial

How to restore old photos with NanoBanana

• Go to NanoBanana and sign up.

• Click on ‘Tools’ > ‘Create Image 🍌‘

• Upload your old, damaged photo and enter your prompt.

Sample Prompt: Faithfully restore this image with high fidelity to modern photograph quality, in full color, upscale to 4K

• Click Create, and within seconds, Gemini will produce a beautifully restored, high-fidelity 4K version of your photo.

🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

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7. Auto Streamer, your digital alchemist turning ideas into engaging learning experiences

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