👩🏻‍💻 OpenAI Releases “Codex” AI coding agent

🦾Plus: 🎨 Manus AI unveils new image gen capabilities

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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

  • 🆕ScoutDB debuts as the world’s first Agentic Mongo GUI

  • 🔗A collection of 300+ MCP servers

  • ⚙️Deploying agents as real-time APIs 101

  • ☁️Uber’s Journey to Ray on Kubernetes

  • 🌐 ChatGPT is the new internet gateway

  • 🚀You.com’s ARI Enterprise crushes OpenAI

  • 💡 AI Tutorial: How to decide what to watch using AI

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

OpenAI has launched Codex, an agentic coding tool in research preview designed for experienced developers to delegate routine programming tasks to an AI that generates production-ready code while transparently showing its process. Accessible via the ChatGPT sidebar, users prompt Codex to either write code or provide advice within a container reflecting their development environment.

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What’s inside:

✔️ An actionable 8-step framework to create a seamless payment process

✔️ Expert strategies to reduce late payments and enhance your professional image

A well-structured payment system leads to smoother operations, happier clients, and long-term financial success.

ScoutDB is the world’s first agentic Mongo GUI. Run queries using natural language, automatically map your relationships, and explore data on a beautiful, infinite canvas. In practical terms, ScoutDB functions as your intelligent database assistant—it understands what you’re asking for, reasons about your data relationships, and autonomously constructs and executes the appropriate Mongo queries.

A curated list of awesome Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. MCP is an open protocol that enables AI models to securely interact with local and remote resources through standardized server implementations. This list focuses on production-ready and experimental MCP servers that extend AI capabilities through file access, database connections, API integrations, and other contextual services.

Whether you're building a game interface or integrating into a larger application, deploying your agent with APIs is a key step toward making it usable in real-world scenarios. We’ll explore how to use REST APIs and WebSockets to enable real-time communication.

Uber has detailed a recent transition to running Ray-based machine learning workloads on Kubernetes. This marks an evolution in its infrastructure, with the aim of enhancing scalability, efficiency, and developer experience. The company recently published a two-part series from Uber Engineering delving into the motivations, challenges, and solutions encountered during this migration.​

Through Squarespace’s cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brand’s goals, name, and personality. It’s AI speed, with Squarespace’s 20+ years of design expertise in website building. 

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Rubrik Webinar: 30% of your organization's data is likely redundant, obsolete, or trivial (ROT).Don't miss this opportunity to transform your approach to unstructured data management and enhance your organization’s security posture

Limbo (GitHub Repo)

Limbo is an in-process OLTP database engine library. It started as a research project to build an SQLite-compatible in-process database in Rust with native async support

🥤 RAGLite

RAGLite is a Python toolkit for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with PostgreSQL or SQLite.

AI News:

Viral startup Manus AI just unveiled powerful new image generation features. Unlike basic AI that simply follows text prompts, Manus understands your intent, plans workflows, searches the web, and combines multiple specialized tools to create ready-to-use visuals for marketing, product design, and more.

ChatGPT has surged from the 15th to the 5th most visited website globally, while giants like Wikipedia are losing traffic. More users now turn directly to ChatGPT for instant answers, signaling a shift away from traditional browsing. It offers a streamlined experience free from ads and clickbait, though some worry it may eventually face similar challenges as it grows.

Microsoft’s recent layoffs in Washington hit coders hardest, with over 40% of the 2,000 affected employees coming from software engineering, according to Bloomberg’s analysis of state filings. While coders make up a large part of Microsoft’s workforce, the company hasn’t shared exact figures. These cuts are part of a broader layoff affecting about 6,000 employees.

You.com has launched ARI Enterprise today, claiming its advanced research platform defeats OpenAI’s comparable offerings in 76% of head-to-head tests and achieves industry-leading accuracy on independent benchmarks.

You’re already enjoying free shipping and exclusive shows, but Amazon Prime has a lot more to offer. From early access to exclusive deals to unlimited photo storage, these 10 hidden perks can transform your shopping experience and help you get the most out of your membership. Don’t miss out on valuable benefits that can save you time, money, and effort. Start unlocking these powerful features today. You’re paying for them – now it’s time to make them work for you.

AI Tutorial

How to decide what to watch using AI

With so many streaming services and podcasts out there, this AI tool makes it easier to decide what to watch next.

  1. Go to the Pix tool on the Likewise website or text “Pix” to 550550. (You can also access it via email at [email protected] or through the app.)

  2. Ask about any type of entertainment — books, podcasts, TV shows, or movies — and Pix will suggest options for you depending on your preferences and interests.

  3. Example prompt: “Send me some scary movies on Prime or Hulu. No slashers please.”

The tool is specifically trained to offer entertainment recommendations and is free to use.

Did you know that the World Wide Web was born in Geneva, Switzerland? Indeed, the first version of the Internet cropped up at CERN in 1989. Today the world-renowned center is home to the largest particle accelerator and to the CERN Science Gateway – a must-see hub for science enthusiasts that features hands-on exhibits, immersive virtual reality experiences, and live demonstrations.

🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

  1. Rubrik Webinar: Optimizing unstructured data: Uncover the Secrets of ROT Data.

  2. Bard Pdf revolutionizes the way you interact with PDFs.

  3. SEOBy.ai helps you kickstart your marketing efforts and rank higher on search engines without spending a dime.

  4. ChatPaper is a specialized reading assistant crafted for researchers and professionals,

  5. Pact Monster uses AI for better meeting productivity

  6. Trolly AI: Revolutionizing SEO Content Creation with Advanced AI Technology.

  7. pre.dev accelerates idea to development.

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