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🤖 OpenAI's Agent Builder
🦾Plus: 🤖John Ternus top pick to succeed Tim Cook as CEO

Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📖 5 Top Cheat Sheets to Master Data Science
🛡️ Building AI for cyber defenders
📈 A Decision Matrix for Time Series Forecasting Models
⚡Vercel vs Cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers
💰 ChatGPT to offer investment insights?
🤖John Ternus top pick to succeed Tim Cook as CEO
💡 AI Tutorial:How to make scroll-stopping video ads in minutes
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OpenAI is going after Zapier & n8n. They're releasing an "Agent Builder". For the past 3 years people have been making ChatGPT wrappers. The marquee reveal is Agent Builder, a visual orchestration tool that lets developers drag together entire AI workflows with blocks for logic, loops, approvals, data transforms, file search, MCP connectors, and ChatKit modules. It’s built to handle both quick prototyping and production deployment.
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Data science encompasses statistics, machine learning, and data analysis. Navigating this expansive field is easier with handy cheat sheets. Unlock essential knowledge with these five must-have cheat sheets for data science professionals and enthusiasts

Anthropic published research detailing Claude 4.5 Sonnet’s cybersecurity capabilities, with the new model achieving top marks on industry benchmarks. AI models are now useful for cybersecurity tasks in practice, not just theory. As research and experience demonstrated the utility of frontier AI as a tool for cyber attackers

This article is designed to help, through the use of a decision matrix accompanied by explanations on when and why to employee different models depending on data characteristics and problem type. Time series data have the added complexity of temporal dependencies, seasonality, and possible non-stationarity.

Vercel and Cloudflare are in a race to become the default platform for building modern apps. The two companies are competing with opposing ideas on what 'developer experience' means. The winner will be the one who wins developer trust. Whoever balances the developer experience, scale, and trust will shape how the web will be built in the next decade.
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OpenAI and Jony Ive are reportedly dealing with design and technical challenges on their screen-free AI device, according to a new report from the Financial Times, facing delays that could push its launch beyond the planned 2026 release. The team is reportedly struggling to balance the AI assistant's conversational style, aiming for helpful engagement without being overly talkative.
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OpenAI has acquired Roi, an AI-powered personal-investing app that offers personalized financial insights, to accelerate its push into consumer-focused AI products. The undisclosed deal, which is being described as an “acqui-hire,” will bring Roi’s technology to OpenAI along with its CEO and co-founder, Sujith Vishwajith, and his engineering team.

Several of Apple's executives are expected to relinquish their responsibilities in the near future - some of them were once seen as Tim Cook's heir, making the future of the company uncertain. The company needs to urgently beef up its AI business, which could mean a shake-up or even an acquisition.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just published a blog detailing a series of changes coming to the company’s viral Sora video platform, including revenue-sharing plans for copyrighted and likeness-driven content and more granular control systems. OAI will implement opt-in controls allowing rights-holders to specify exactly how characters can be utilized, abandoning the initial “opt-out” approach.

One of the world’s top mathematicians just said ChatGPT helped him solve a problem that would’ve taken hours. Terence Tao used ChatGPT to help verify inequalities in a math problem. The AI generated working Python code and even caught errors in his requests. Tao says AI won’t replace deep research, but it can speed up collaborative work.
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AI Tutorial
How to make scroll-stopping video ads in minutes

Open a new project in your Mirage Studio account to start generating videos.
Upload a reference image or type in a text prompt to generate a new AI actor. Once you find an actor you like, you can customize their outfit, scenery, and even lighting.
Sample Prompt: Generate a spokesperson video to promote our modern hotel chain. Show a young professional speaking directly to the camera, with a friendly and expressive tone.
Now, choose your audio. You can generate audio from a prompt or upload existing files. Reuse the same audio across actors to scale assets faster.
Generate as many takes as you want. It’s easy to “reshoot” if you want to change delivery or emphasis, too.
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