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OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, outperforming Gemini 3 👨💻
🦾Plus: 🤝 Saudi Arabia inks AI deals with xAI, Nvidia
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📈10 Benefits of Starting Your Career As A Data Analyst
📚Gemini 3 Developer Guide
🌳Why Decision Trees Fail (and How to Fix Them)
🛠️Microsoft Agent 365: The control plane for AI agents
😵 Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
💡 AI Tutorial:Build a Mini AI Customer Support Bot with AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
OpenAI just rolled out GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, an upgrade to its agentic coding model that uses a new “compaction” technique to work across context windows for longer-running, complex tasks and handle development sessions of over 24 hours. Codex-Max shows strong improvements over Codex-High across development benchmarks, also surpassing the new Gemini 3 Pro in coding tasks.
Introducing WhatsApp Business Calls in Synthflow
65% of people still prefer voice, but 40% of business calls go unanswered. Now Synthflow Voice AI Agents can answer WhatsApp calls directly — resolving issues, booking, and following up 24/7 with full analytics.
By 2027, spending on AI software will grow to $297.9 billion, with a CAGR of 19.1%. Over the next five years, the market growth will accelerate from 17.8% to reach 20.4% in 2027. Generative AI software spend will rise from 8% of AI software in 2023 to 35% by 2027, according to Gartner.
Google Antigravity. Google's other major release today to accompany Gemini 3 Pro.This video shows how Antigravity coordinates agents across an editor, terminal, and browser. It demonstrates research, planning, implementation, browser testing, and artifact reviews while building a full Next.js flight-tracking app.
This guide shows how to build a meeting-transcription tool in Python using the OpenAI API. It covers uploading meeting recordings, converting them to audio, transcribing, generating summaries and next-steps, and saving results for download.
Mozilla.ai released mcpd a while back to fix this. It's basically requirements.txt for agent tooling, letting you declare all your MCP servers in one config file. But here's the catch: even with mcpd running centrally, every developer still had to manually configure each MCP server in their IDE.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Coresignal’s Free Webinar: How to Evaluate External Data Quality with Confidence. Join Coresignal’s free, vendor-neutral webinar on December 2, where Data Analyst Egidijus Griska will share practical tools and metrics you need to be confident when assessing B2B data.
Pyrefly (GitHub Repo)
Pyrefly is a type checker and language server for Python that provides lightning-fast type checking and IDE features.
Mojo-V (GitHub Repo)
Mojo-V is a new RISC-V extension that implements secret computation, enabling secure, efficient, and data-oblivious execution.
AI News:
Meta released SAM 3 and SAM 3D, two computer vision models that identify, segment, and rebuild objects or people in a photo into 3D models through text descriptions, alongside a new Segment Anything Playground to try these systems. SAM 3 segments objects using detailed text descriptions like "yellow school bus," an upgrade from the fixed label limitations of previous vision models.
This year’s newest iPhones included one momentous change that marked a new phase in the evolution of Apple Silicon: the Apple N1, Apple’s first in-house chip made to handle local wireless connections. The N1 supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and the Thread smart home communication protocol, and it replaces the third-party wireless chips (mostly made by Broadcom) that Apple used in older iPhones.
Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN announced new AI partnerships with xAI, Nvidia, and other major companies at the U.S.-Saudi investment forum — including a plan to deploy 600K GPUs, build a 500+ MW data center, and deploy Grok nationwide. xAI will build its first international data center in Saudi Arabia, deploying Grok nationwide through HUMAIN's agent platform for government & enterprise use.
Target hasn’t been doing well in recent quarters, but maybe its next store has promise. The retailer is launching a beta test next week to turn OpenAI’s assistant into a personal shopper that can assemble multi-item carts, handle fresh groceries, and funnel orders to the nearest store.
Big shakeup for your marketing team. Design software giant Adobe is acquiring SEO software company Semrush for $1.9 billion as the Photoshop maker looks to strengthen its marketing tools and build on its AI-enabled products. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of next year.
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AI Tutorial
🤩 Create n8n workflows directly from Claude
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to generate complete n8n workflow automations by describing what you want in plain English — using Claude Sonnet 4.5 via MCP to build workflows without manually connecting nodes.
Step-by-step:
Install Claude Desktop and Node.js, then open your terminal and run
npx n8n-mcpto start the MCP serverIn Claude Desktop, go to Settings > Developer > Edit Config and paste the configuration code, adding your n8n URL (from your workflow dashboard) and API key (Settings > n8n API > Create API Key)
Restart Claude Desktop, click the n8n MCP icon in the bottom right, and click "Enable all tools"
Simply describe your automation to Claude: (Eg. "Build an n8n workflow that monitors my Gmail for emails with 'invoice' in the subject, extracts the invoice amount using AI, and logs it to a Google Sheet")
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Marblism generates a fully-functional web application from a single prompt:
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
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Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
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Codetoflow enables you to understand the code in simple terms using a flowchart which enables you to understand the details
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