- Big Data News Weekly
- Posts
- 🚀 OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking models
🚀 OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking models
🦾Plus: 📊 Anthropic’s early-warning system for AI job loss
In partnership with
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧪Top 5 Virtual Hands-on Labs Solutions in 2026
🧠Can AI hide its chain of thought (by OpenAI)?
⚙️New Claude code"Auto Mode" Permissions Coming
🤖Cursor Introduces Automations
🚀Microsoft launches Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B model
📊 Anthropic’s early-warning system for AI job loss
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:How to use Claude Cowork to perform non-technical tasks
AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
OpenAI released GPT-5.4, its newest frontier model aimed at professional tasks. The model comes in three variants: the base version, GPT-5.4 Thinking for deeper reasoning tasks, and GPT-5.4 Pro for high performance workloads. The API now supports context windows up to 1 million tokens. Benchmarks show stronger results across computer use tests like OSWorld and WebArena and higher scores on knowledge work evaluations.
Want to get the most out of ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a superpower if you know how to use it correctly.
Discover how HubSpot's guide to AI can elevate both your productivity and creativity to get more things done.
Learn to automate tasks, enhance decision-making, and foster innovation with the power of AI.
Virtual hands-on lab solutions are expected to deliver more than isolated practice environments. Organizations now seek platforms that combine realism, scalability, automation, and governance, enabling hands-on training to scale across teams, regions, and use cases without introducing unnecessary risk or overhead.
Researchers worry advanced AI might hide its internal reasoning to evade safety monitors. Fortunately, current tests show that models still struggle to manipulate their own thought processes, making them easier to monitor and keep secure.
Claude Code plans to launch Auto Mode in research preview no earlier than March 11. Auto Mode lets Claude handle permission decisions during coding sessions so developers can run longer tasks without being interrupted for manual approvals. It is designed to be a safer alternative to bypassing permissions entirely. Users should only use Auto Mode in isolated environments, as it isn't perfect and won't catch every action that could be considered risky.
Cursor now lets you build always-on coding agents that run on schedules or fire from Slack messages, Linear issues, merged PRs, or PagerDuty incidents. Agents spin up cloud sandboxes, follow your instructions, and verify their own output.
This whitepModernizing customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of compliance
Learn how financial institutions are deploying conversational AI agents with enterprise-grade governance — reducing costs, improving satisfaction, and ensuring regulatory trust.
Read The State of Conversational Agents in Financial Services from ElevenLabs to see how enterprise leaders are scaling responsibly.
👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries
GQL - Git Query Language (GitHub Repo)
GQL is a query language with a syntax similar to SQL. It executes queries on .git files without the need to create database files or convert the files into any other format. Keywords in GQL are case-insensitive, similar to SQL.
SQLSync (GitHub Repo)
SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge.
unsloth provides 80% faster and 50% less memory local QLoRA finetuning without any change in hardware.
AI News:
Amazon Connect Health is AWS’s first purpose-built healthcare solution. It handles patient scheduling, verification, medical history review, clinical documentation, and coding by plugging directly into existing EHR systems.
Free email without sacrificing your privacy
Gmail tracks you. Proton doesn’t. Get private email that puts your data — and your privacy — first.
Netflix announced it is acquiring InterPositive, a filmmaking technology company founded by Ben Affleck in 2022. The startup builds AI models that help production teams edit footage from their own productions, correcting issues such as continuity errors, lighting mismatches, or missing shots.
New 15B parameter multimodal reasoning model excels at math, science, and computer-use tasks, trained with just 200B tokens vs. 1T+ used by competitors like Qwen and Gemma3, offering competitive performance at 10x lower compute cost.
Released command-line interface on GitHub streamlines AI agent integration with Workspace services, simplifying connections for tools like OpenClaw and MCP-compatible apps with specific instructions replacing complex multi-API processes.
Anthropic published a study on AI’s job impact, cross-referencing what AI could automate against what people are using Claude for — finding that while mass layoffs haven't hit, the youngest workers in are already getting squeezed out. The study uses "observed exposure," a metric that gauges AI job displacement by comparing tasks AI can do to what they are already automating.
Stop Drowning In AI Information Overload
Your inbox is flooded with newsletters. Your feed is chaos. Somewhere in that noise are the insights that could transform your work—but who has time to find them?
The Deep View solves this. We read everything, analyze what matters, and deliver only the intelligence you need. No duplicate stories, no filler content, no wasted time. Just the essential AI developments that impact your industry, explained clearly and concisely.
Replace hours of scattered reading with five focused minutes. While others scramble to keep up, you'll stay ahead of developments that matter. 600,000+ professionals at top companies have already made this switch.
AI Tutorial
How to use Claude Cowork to perform non-technical tasks
Open Claude Cowork on your laptop
Select a folder (Downloads, Notes, Project files, Screenshots, etc.)
Claude can now read what’s inside
Tell Claude what you want done
Claude edits, creates, and organizes directly in your files
You can use it to auto-organize your folders, create spreadsheets from screenshots, draft reports from scattered notes, and more
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Alice - A native app that offers fast and reliable experience with models (OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude and more)
Linktopia - Community link-building for bloggers, entrepreneurs and startup brands to grow
VerifactAI is an AI fact-checking tool that allows you to fact-check your articles within a minute.
Undress AI Tool is a website that offers a deepnude application, allowing users to create modified images
Screenloop is the ultimate Talent Operations Platform, seamlessly integrating a next-gen ATS
Postlyy - All in one platform to create, schedule, and analyze content on X and LinkedIn
View our database of all the best AI tools for your needs: aitoolsup.com
Have cool resources to share? Submit AI tool
A.I. Generated Image of the Day
đź‘€ Happy community
Recommended reading:
SPONSOR US
Get your product in front of Big Data & AI enthusiasts
Our newsletter is read by thousands of tech professionals, investors, engineers, managers, and business owners around the world.
Interested in Sponsoring the Big Data News Weekly Newsletter?Get in touch today
What did you think of today's email?Your feedback helps me create better emails for you! |