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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🛠️10 AI Tools for Data Scientists in 2025
đź“ŠState of LLMs in Late 2025
⚛️React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
📦OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework
📱 Jony Ive details OpenAI’s hardware vision
🧠Samsung researcher’s tiny model out-reasons giants
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:Create AI Videos for Free with Grok Imagine
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This article walks through 7 vectorization techniques that eliminate loops from numerical code. Each one addresses a specific pattern where developers typically reach for iteration, showing you how to reformulate the problem in array operations instead. The result is code that runs much (much) faster and often reads more clearly than the loop-based version.
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The AI landscape has evolved into a hyper-specialized ecosystem where each model has distinct strengths. The challenges emerging include diminishing returns on scaling, massive energy consumption, and the rise of smaller specialized models. This guide explains the technical foundations that make each model different so developers can choose the right tool for their task.
React has grown into one of the world's most popular open source projects since Meta open-sourced the project over a decade ago. The incredible growth is thanks to its community. The React Foundation was created to help the React community and its members. It will maintain React's infrastructure, organize React Conf, and create initiatives to support the React ecosystem. The React Foundation will be part of the Linux Foundation.
OpenZL is a new open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data. OpenZL is designed to offer the performance of a format-specific compressor with the easy maintenance of a single executable binary. You can get started with OpenZL today by visiting our Quick Start guide and the OpenZL GitHub repository.
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Llama 2
The next generation of Meta's open source large language model. Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use.
LazyVim
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axe-api
The next-generation Rest API Framework.
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
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Ex-Apple design chief Jony Ive provided a broader glimpse into his hardware partnership with OpenAI during an exclusive session with Sam Altman at Dev Day, outlining plans for AI devices that heal humans’ fractured relationship with tech. Ive noted a current “uncomfortable relationship” with tech, hoping AI devices can make us “happy, fulfilled, peaceful, less anxious, and less disconnected.”
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Samsung’s Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau introduced the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M parameter AI that beats DeepSeek R1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on complex reasoning using a self-improvement loop of drafting, rethinking, and refining solutions. TRM scored 45% on the notoriously difficult ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, surpassing models thousands of times larger.
Google wants to retain the right to bundle Maps and YouTube with its Gemini AI service. It claims that there is no evidence that it has gained a monopoly or market power in the AI market. Maps and YouTube have not been found to be monopoly products. Google says its bundle of Gemini with YouTube and Maps is similar to Microsoft's inclusion of its Copilot AI within its Office productivity software.
SoftBank has invested $5.4B to acquire ABB’s robotics division, deepening its commitment to advanced robotics and expanding its portfolio beyond previous ventures like Pepper. Founder Masayoshi Son has called robotics “SoftBank’s next frontier in Physical AI,” aiming to drive a “ground-breaking evolution that will propel humanity forward.”
Prominent physicist-turned-AI researcher Yao Shunyu departed Anthropic for Google after less than a year, publishing a blog that cites the startup's characterization of China as an "adversarial nation" among his reasons for leaving. Yao contributed to Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 4 during his year at Anthropic before resigning in mid-September.
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