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🚀OpenAI launches GPT-5.2-Codex for professional coding
🦾Plus: 🏛️ US DOE signs on 24 tech giants for Genesis Mission
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Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🔮Big Data Industry Predictions for 2026
👨💻2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
🤖The State of AI Coding 2025
🚀Mistral launched OCR 3
📱 TikTok signs agreement to create new US joint venture
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Quickly Create a Presentation Using AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
OpenAI has released GPT-5.2-Codex, its most advanced coding model designed for complex software engineering and cybersecurity tasks. The model includes significant improvements for long-term projects, large code refactors, Windows environments, and notably stronger cybersecurity capabilities that recently assisted in discovering three React vulnerabilities.
What investment is rudimentary for billionaires but ‘revolutionary’ for 70,571+ investors entering 2026?
Imagine this. You open your phone to an alert. It says, “you spent $236,000,000 more this month than you did last month.”
If you were the top bidder at Sotheby’s fall auctions, it could be reality.
Sounds crazy, right? But when the ultra-wealthy spend staggering amounts on blue-chip art, it’s not just for decoration.
The scarcity of these treasured artworks has helped drive their prices, in exceptional cases, to thin-air heights, without moving in lockstep with other asset classes.
The contemporary and post war segments have even outpaced the S&P 500 overall since 1995.*
Now, over 70,000 people have invested $1.2 billion+ across 500 iconic artworks featuring Banksy, Basquiat, Picasso, and more.
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Thousands of members have gotten annualized net returns like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8% from 26 sales to date.
*Based on Masterworks data. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd
According to Research Nester, the big data and business analytics market size is evaluated at more than $309.68 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $940.44 billion by 2035. In 2026, the industry size of big data and business analytics is evaluated at $343.4 billion.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey looks at the tools and technologies developers are currently using and the ones they want to use. This year's survey included questions about embedded technology tools and industry-sourced, community-vetted technology options. Python's adoption has accelerated significantly due to its ability to be the go-to language for AI, data science, and back-end development.
Greptile's State of AI Coding report is a cross-industry study on recent trends in AI software development. It covers productivity gain across development workflows, AI tool adoption, model growth trends, performance across latency, cost, and tokenization, and recent papers on foundational models and applications. Code output has increased across teams.
Mistral OCR 3 is designed to extract text and embedded images from a wide range of documents with exceptional fidelity. It supports markdown output enriched with HTML-based table reconstruction, enabling downstream systems to understand not just document content, but also structure.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
pg_embedding
Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.
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AI News:
The U.S. Dept. of Energy just announced partnerships with 24 organizations to power the Trump administration’s Genesis Mission effort to accelerate scientific research with AI — including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Nvidia. The initiative unites 17 national labs with 40K researchers, targeting breakthroughs in nuclear energy, quantum computing, and manufacturing.
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Robotics startup Figure AI CEO and founder Brett Adcock is reportedly starting a new AI lab called Hark, backed entirely by $100M in personal funding, according to The Information. The venture will pursue “human-centric AI” capable of proactive reasoning, continuous self-improvement, and designed to “care deeply about humans.”
TikTok's US operations will soon be housed in a new joint venture named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. The company has signed agreements with Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The deal's closing date is on January 22. Oracle will serve as the 'trusted security partner' in charge of auditing and validating that TikTok complies with agreed-upon national security terms.
Luma just dropped Ray3 Modify, an AI video model that lets you easily reshape existing footage while keeping the original performance intact. Users can upload a video and swap out the environment, costumes, or objects while keeping the actor's movements, timing, and emotions intact.
Google added video verification to its Gemini app, allowing users to see if content was created with Google AI tools. Users can upload videos up to 100 MB and 90 seconds long and ask if they were AI-generated. It scans for SynthID watermarks across audio and visual tracks, providing specific feedback like "SynthID detected within the audio between 10-20 secs
AI Tutorial
How to Quickly Create a Presentation Using AI
Go to Gemini and sign in.
Upload the document you want to use (PDF, Word or text file).
After uploading, open Tools and select “Canvas.”
Type your prompt:
“Create a slide presentation from this document.”When the presentation is ready, click Export to Slides.
Your deck will open in Google Slides, where you can edit and polish it.
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Undress AI Tool is a website that offers a deepnude application, allowing users to create modified images
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