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👨💻 OpenAI launches Codex app for multi-agent coding
🦾Plus: 🚀 SpaceX Acquires xAI in ~$1T Deal

Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🤖How Is AIOps Transforming the Future of IT Operations?
🛑Stop building systems for agents
🐞Factory AI’s Droid files its own bug reports
👨💻Microsoft is pushing Claude Code to 1000s of employees
📍 Barnsley named UK's first 'tech town'
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Create Flowcharts, Mind Maps with ChatGPT
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OAI just launched the Codex app for macOS, a new desktop interface that lets developers manage multiple AI coding agents in parallel, utilize skills, automate recurring tasks, and delegate entire features to AI. The app acts as a "command center" to run separate agents across projects simultaneously, with built-in isolation so agents don't conflict with each other.
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In today’s digital landscape, effectively managing IT operations has become increasingly challenging for organizations. IT teams face significant challenges in effectively monitoring, analyzing, and responding to incidents because of the complexity of IT environments and the exponential growth of generated data.

Today's systems are sub-optimal for AI agents as they waste context, confuse models with unstructured output, and prioritize vision-based human interaction over text-based LLMs. While some think this means we need to build systems that treat LLMs as first-class citizens, that approach is not totally required - if humans can live with it, LLMs will eventually catch up.

Factory AI launched Signals, a system that uses LLMs to analyze user sessions and identify friction points without humans ever reading conversations, then automatically files Linear tickets that its Droid agent picks up, implements fixes for, and submits PRs. The interesting bit: 73% of issues now get auto-resolved in under 4 hours, with friction categories like "context churn" and "rephrasing cascades" emerging from the system's own clustering analysis.

Here's an interesting one: Microsoft is quietly handing Claude Code to thousands of employees across its biggest engineering teams - including non-developers. Despite OpenAI being its "primary partner," Microsoft is encouraging designers and project managers to experiment with Anthropic's coding agent. Quite an interesting hedge!
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Elon Musk just announced the merger of his AI startup xAI with SpaceX, forming what's now the highest-valued private company on the planet at a reported $1.25T — combining his rockets, Grok, and the X platform all under one entity. xAI will operate as a division within SpaceX, with Musk pitching a vision of launching AI data centers into orbit to overcome Earth's energy constraints.
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Leaks suggest Anthropic is preparing a new model called Claude Sonnet 5, with internal files pointing to a February 3, 2026 date. It’s not clear if this marks a public release or an internal milestone, but the timing would line up with the Super Bowl, a period when AI labs increasingly push for mainstream attention.

UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has announced Barnsley, a South Yorkshire community of 250,000 people, as Britain's first "tech town" in an effort to show how AI can improve everyday life. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and Adobe have agreed to support the initiative, which will test AI in local schools, hospitals, GPs, and businesses.

Carbon Robotics has launched the Large Plant Model (LPM), an AI model trained on 150 million photos that can recognize any plant species on the fly, allowing its autonomous weed-killing robots to target new weeds without retraining.

ElevenLabs finally moved v3 out of alpha. The big fix brings 68% fewer screw-ups on numbers, symbols, and technical notation. If you’ve ever had TTS mess up a phone number or price, you know why that matters.
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How to Create Flowcharts, Mind Maps, and Diagrams with ChatGPT

Go to the Whimsical Diagrams GPT.
Describe what you want to visualize using plain language
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Once done, click on "View or edit this diagram in Whimsical." It will open a new window where you can review and make changes as needed.
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