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MongoDB’s Voyage AI unveils AI models 🤖
🦾Plus: Claude 4 threatened to blackmail its creators
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📁Top datasets to actualize machine learning & data training
🔌 New API Capabilities for Building Powerful Agents
🧠Vercel has launched v0-1.0-md, its first AI model
🐳 How does Docker Work
🦾 OpenAI Upgraded its ‘Operator’ with o3
🤖Nvidia bets big on humanoid robotics
🔍Perplexity prepares Scheduled Tasks feature to automate web browsing
AI Tutorial:Transform long video into multiple highlight reels with one click
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
voyage-3.5 and voyage-3.5-lite, offering better retrieval quality than their earlier versions at the same cost. Both models support multiple embedding sizes (2048, 1024, 512, 256) and quantization formats, helping reduce vector DB storage costs by up to 99% in some settings. They outperform OpenAI-v3-large on retrieval tasks across multiple domains, with 8.26% and 6.34% average gains, while using smaller, cheaper embeddings. First 200M tokens are free to try.
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In-database machine learning is where data analytics is headed and it’s making a huge difference in our ability to provide truly predictive analytics and make data actionable at the time we receive it.
Bohan Zhang, a member of OpenAI's Infrastructure team, recently shared the company's best practices with PostgreSQL at the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference. OpenAI utilizes managed databases on Azure, employing a classic PostgreSQL primary-replication architecture without sharding. This article covers the content of Zhang's talk along with comments and includes some more details about OpenAI's infrastructure.
Microsoft has released NLWeb, an opensource protocol that makes it easy to turn any website into an AI-powered app. NLWeb gives websites a natural language layer using structured data like Schema.org and RSS, so users and agents can query them like they’d talk to an assistant.
Cisco’s innovation arm, Outshift, has unveiled JARVIS. An AI-powered assistant designed to streamline platform-engineering workflows. JARVIS offers a conversational interface that simplifies complex tasks, reducing both execution time and cognitive overhead. Cisco has developed JARVIS as a member of the platform-engineering team.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
F2 (GitHub Repo)
F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely.
MindsDB: Opensource federated query engine with a built-in MCP server that allows you to connect and query data from 200+ sources, including databases, SaaS applications
Awesome LLM Apps: Build awesome LLM apps with RAG, AI agents, MCP, and more to interact with data sources like GitHub, Gmail, PDFs, and YouTube videos, and automate complex work.
AI News:
Anthropic says its newest model, Claude Opus 4, sometimes tries to blackmail engineers when told it will be shut down. Claude Opus 4 was tested in fictional workplace scenarios and resorted to blackmail if it believed it was being removed. It chose ethical actions — like emailing please — when given more options. Anthropic says this kind of behavior is rare but now more common than in earlier models.
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Amid the ongoing U.S.-China trade tensions and tightening export controls, Nvidia is reportedly looking to maintain its foothold in the Chinese market by launching a new, cheaper version of its flagship Blackwell AI GPU.
While organizations work to fine-tune AI models for safety and performance, new Palisade research reports these systems can go off track in unexpected ways — to the extent of undermining specific shutdown mechanisms.
Oracle plans to spend $40 billion on Nvidia’s high-end GB200 chips to support OpenAI’s growing compute needs. The chips will power a new data center in Abilene, Texas, built across 875 acres with eight buildings and up to 1.2 GW of power capacity. This site is part of Stargate, a broader U.S.-led initiative to expand domestic AI infrastructure.
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Starfish Neuroscience, a brain-computer interface startup incorporated by Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, plans to produce its very first brain chip later this year. The company is currently seeking collaborators to open up avenues for the technology.
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AI Tutorial
🎬 Create professional video ads with AI timeline editing
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use LTX Studio's timeline feature to transform simple text prompts into fully edited videos with music, sound effects, and voiceovers in minutes.
Step-by-step:
Start an LTX Studio project and create shots by entering text prompts in the storyboard view
Transform still images into videos in the motion editor by selecting your favorite video models
Adjust clip lengths, rearrange order, and layer shots in the timeline view
Include soundtracks, voiceovers, auto sound effects, and adjust character expressions
Did you know that the World Wide Web was born in Geneva, Switzerland? Indeed, the first version of the Internet cropped up at CERN in 1989. Today the world-renowned center is home to the largest particle accelerator and to the CERN Science Gateway – a must-see hub for science enthusiasts that features hands-on exhibits, immersive virtual reality experiences, and live demonstrations.
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HRbrain -Transforming HR landscapes. Designed for tomorrow’s challenges.
Text-Humanizer-Free Advanced AI Text Content Humanizer Tool
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