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💾 Netflix’s Approach to Database Resilience with WAL
🦾Plus: OpenAI plans fully automated AI researchers by 2028
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📈 Top 12 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025
🤖Train SmolLM3: The Complete Hugging Face Training Guide
🧠Alibaba introduces AgentFold memory system for web agents
⚡Moonshot AI releases new open-source faster attention architecture
🤔Big tech is spending more than ever on AI and it’s still not enough
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💡 AI Tutorial:How to make pro infographics with Figma Make
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Netflix has implemented a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) system to increase the resilience of its data platform. WAL was designed to address various challenges at Netflix, including data loss, replication system entropy, multi-partition failures, and data corruption. The system captures database mutations in a durable log before applying them to downstream services, ensuring consistency and recoverability even during outages.
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Her are the 12 strategic technology trends to act as enhancers of digital business and innovation over the next 3 to 5 years, According Gartner. By 2026, generative AI will significantly alter 70% of the design and development effort for new web applications and mobile apps, According to Gartner.
This guide walks through the full process of training SmolLM3, using Hugging Face’s new Smol Training Playbook. It explains how to design, run, and analyze pretraining and post-training experiments for language models. The playbook closes the trilogy that started with FineWeb for dataset creation and Ultrascale for infrastructure scaling.
AgentFold replaces passive history logs with active context management. It selectively compresses past steps to retain key details, surpassing DeepSeek-V3.1-671B and OpenAI o4-mini using only supervised fine-tuning.
Kimi Linear is a hybrid linear attention architecture that outperforms traditional full attention methods across various contexts, including short, long, and reinforcement learning (RL) scaling regimes. At its core is Kimi Delta Attention (KDA)—a refined version of Gated DeltaNet that introduces a more efficient gating mechanism to optimize the use of finite-state RNN memory.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company aims to build an AI “research intern” by 2026 and a fully autonomous “AI researcher” by 2028. Joined by Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Altman described a system that can plan, run experiments, and make discoveries on its own. To get there, OpenAI is improving algorithms, scaling compute, and extending model reasoning time.
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It has been quite the week (nay, month!) for AWS. Closing out October with strong cloud results sent Amazon shares up nearly 12% after the company reported ~20% year-over-year AWS growth in Q3. AI workloads and long-term enterprise deals helped lift revenue to about $33 billion, easing concerns about slowing demand. Retail and ad sales also grew, giving Amazon one of its best quarters since 2022.
Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled to investors the company is still open to acquisitions and partnerships to move things forward on the AI front. The comments were made this week during the company’s Q4 2025 earnings call. The exec also offered a brief update about Apple’s next-generation, AI-powered Siri, saying the service was still on track to launch in 2026.
Big Tech plans to spend over $400 billion on AI this year and says it’s still not enough. Microsoft will double its data center capacity within two years as demand surges, while Amazon races to add cloud infrastructure. Meta says it’s hitting limits training new models and will sharply increase spending again in 2026. Google is raising annual capital spending to around $93 billion, citing strong AI returns.
The Sora 2 app—a TikTok-style video generator—is now the No. 1 free app on Apple’s App Store, just behind ChatGPT. Recently, OpenAI also launched “character cameos” that let users add pets or objects to videos. OpenAI announced that users can now buy additional Sora video generations beyond the current 30 free videos per day.
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Upload a reference infographic, write your prompt, and press enter
Sample Prompt: Turn the article below into a single-page, info-dense infographic for LinkedIn (1080×1350). Use my brand palette [#HEX1, #HEX2, #HEX3]. Create a clear hierarchy (H1 title, 3–5 section headers, concise bullets), simple icons, and a clean grid. Highlight key stats as callouts, include a minimal footer CTA [enter CTA], and keep body text ≤ 14 words per bullet. Here’s the article: [paste text]
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Click ‘Publish’, copy the public URL
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