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ML Practitioner’s Guide to Model Deployment with FastAPI ⚡
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📈How Can Analytics Predict Consumer Behavior for Targeted Marketing?
🤖Lessons from Building AI Agents for Financial Services
🏗️Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
👨💻Claude Code's hidden feature
🤔 Is China quietly winning the AI race?
💡 AI Tutorial:Learn any subject with NotebookLM podcasts
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
In this article, you will learn how to package a trained machine learning model behind a clean, well-validated HTTP API using FastAPI, from training to local testing and basic production hardening.
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Data has the power to predict the future, or in this case, what your consumers might do next. Monitoring your marketing analytics is a key part of any digital marketing campaign, as it provides you with insights into your customers’ behavior.
Advice on building agents from someone with two years of experience building AI agents for financial services. Why financial services is extremely hard. This domain doesn’t forgive mistakes. Numbers matter. A wrong revenue figure, a misinterpreted guidance statement, an incorrect DCF assumption.
Gas Town is a provocative piece of speculative design, but its design is too poorly thought through to persist. The problems with Gas Town will undoubtedly show up in the next generation of development tools. Thoughtful design, critical thinking, user research, and planning and coordination within teams will become more important as the pace of software development speeds up.
TeammateTool is an existing-but-hidden functionality found in the Claude Code v2.1.19 binary. While it is fully implemented, it is gated behind feature flags. The tool could potentially be used to review PRs through multiple perspectives, build complete features with specialized agents for each layer, investigate a production bug from multiple angles, and more.
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OTF
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GraphGPT
Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text using GPT-3.
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Chinese AI models are gaining significant traction among US tech giants, with companies like Pinterest and Airbnb relying on open-source technology from developers including Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek to power key features, raising questions about whether China is pulling ahead in the global AI competition.
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Anguilla crossed one million ai domain registrations in January 2026, after raking in $70 million from the AI boom in 2025. That’s nearly half the island’s entire budget, all from a domain code assigned back in the ’90s.
A German study reviewing more than 50,000 health queries found Google’s AI Overviews cite YouTube more often than any health publisher, even though the feature surfaces on over eight out of ten health searches.
Anthropic just expanded access to its Claude for Excel integration, making the AI spreadsheet assistant available to Pro-tier customers after a three-month beta period that was limited to Max and Enterprise plans. Claude for Excel initially launched in October in research preview, bringing the assistant directly into a text sidebar of Microsoft’s spreadsheet platform.
Gallup published its ‘AI in the Workplace’ report for Q4 2025, showing that workplace AI adoption is starting to plateau, with nearly half of American workers saying they never touch AI tools, even as frequent users are deepening their habits. Tech workers lead adoption with 60% using AI frequently, though growth has begun to stall after surging between 2024 and 2025.
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AI Tutorial
🎧 Learn any subject with NotebookLM podcasts
In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate a podcast on any topic using Google’s NotebookLM, a system you can use to make a considerable dent in the firehose of information you receive each day.
Step-by-step:
Go to notebooklm.google.com and create a new notebook. Add sources such as YouTube links, PDFs, or website links
You can manage what sources go into the AI’s brain by checking and unchecking them in the left sidebar
Under “Studio” on the right, click “Audio Overview” to start generating a podcast. It will take 5-10 minutes to generate and will show up on the right
Once generated, click the three dots to download the mp3 to your phone or listen directly via the browser or NotebookLM mobile app
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