🤖 OpenAI’s free cookbook on self-improving AI agents

🦾Plus: 🚨 Hackers Used Claude to Automate 30 Attacks

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

  • ☕25 Java Machine Learning Tools & Libraries

  • 📊When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see

  • 🎯AWS - Beyond vibes: How to properly select the right LLM

  • 🧮Think Linear Algebra

  •  📝 NotebookLM Gets Deep Research Mode

  • 🚀 AI coding startup Cursor hits $29B valuation

  • 💡AI Tutorial:How to transform your ideas into slides in seconds

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

OpenAI published a cookbook on building agents that improve themselves through automated feedback loops. The system runs agent outputs through evaluators, uses a metaprompt to refine instructions when scores fall short, and automatically adopts better versions.

An AI scheduling assistant that lives up to the hype.

Skej is an AI scheduling assistant that works just like a human. You can CC Skej on any email, and watch it book all your meetings. Skej handles scheduling, rescheduling, and event reminders. Imagine life with a 24/7 assistant who responds so naturally, you’ll forget it’s AI.

Explore groundbreaking AI advancements reshaping data science. Uncover the top 10 essential AI tools every data scientist should be acquainted with in this insightful article.

AI21 has released Structured RAG (S-RAG) in Maestro, their agentic RAG system. S-RAG is a hybrid system that converts unstructured documents into relational databases at ingestion time, then uses SQL to retrieve exact values.

If you’ve been trying to make sense of how agent protocols fit together, this guide lays it out without fluff: MCP links agents to tools and data, AG-UI connects agent backends with frontends, and Agent2Agent lets agents from different frameworks talk to each other. Worth a read if you want to ship smoother, more connected agents.

Ask Oracle turns complex database queries into simple conversations where you ask questions in everyday language. The chatbot handles the technical work while generating charts plus explanations for business users.

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

This site looks at how the nano-gpt model, which has 85,000 parameters, sorts a sequence of six letters into alphabetical order.

Loco is a Rust API and web framework for full stack product builders that is strongly inspired by Rails.

MLX (GitHub Repo)

MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon with familiar APIs, composable function transformations, lazy computation, dynamic graph construction, and more.

AI News:

How could frontier AI models like Claude reach beyond computers and affect the physical world? One path is through robots. Claude is proving its chops in the physical world. In Project Fetch, non-robotics experts guided quadruped robots using Claude and completed tasks twice as fast as AI-free teams, edging toward full autonomy. Claude sped up connecting to sensors, orchestrated parallel problem-solving, and even handled tricky localization and detection tasks that usually trip humans up.

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ChatGPT group chats launched across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan letting users collaborate directly within the app. The pilot turns ChatGPT into a social platform using GPT-5.1 Auto across mobile and web.

Andy Konwinski is concerned that the U.S. is losing its dominance in AI research to China, calling the shift an “existential” threat to democracy. Konwinski is a Databricks co-founder and the co-founder of the AI research and venture capital firm Laude. Major AI labs, including OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic, continue to innovate significantly, yet their innovations remain largely proprietary rather than open source.

LinkedIn launched AI-powered search for premium users in the U.S. that accepts natural language queries to find people more easily. The feature aims to enhance professional networking while it plans further expansion.

Huch, as the Germans would say. A German court found that Google has abused its dominant market position in the price comparison sector and ruled that the company must pay a total of €572 million ($665.6 million) in damages to two German price comparison companies.

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AI Tutorial

How to create viral Sora videos (without an invite code)

  1. Go to Higgsfield and create your account.

  2. From the dashboard, navigate to Video → Sora 2.

  3. Write your prompt or upload a reference image. Select the duration and aspect ratio for the video.

Sample Prompt: “A robot walking through a neon-lit Tokyo street, cinematic lighting, 4K realism.”

  1. Head to ‘Sora2 Trends’ and pick a trending viral template to speed things up.

  2. Click 'Edit at the bottom to add visuals, text, and sound.

  3. Type your topic or idea, then click ‘Generate’ and your viral short will be ready in seconds!

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🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

  1. Marblism generates a fully-functional web application from a single prompt:

  2. Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips

  3. aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.

  4. podcast.ai, a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence

  5. Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips

  6. aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.

  7. Verk- Hire AI employees to add more firepower to your team, who work 24/7 to do sales, be your personal assistant, do graphic designing and more

  8. Codetoflow enables you to understand the code in simple terms using a flowchart which enables you to understand the details

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