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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Apple Ai Model, Z.ai’s GLM 5.3, Tinder System Design Case Study 👇
📊30 Popular Data Science Tools to use in 2026
💻Z.ai drops a new model that rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in coding
🤖How to optimize your AGENTS.md file for AI coding agents
💘System Design Case Study: Tinder
💡 AI Tutorial:How to write and edit docs faster with Claude
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
It walks you through how startups cut costs by letting smaller models think longer, with benchmark numbers behind every call. In this guide, we show how startups are using smarter model selection and new API controls that help with reasoning continuity, multi-agent orchestration, and programmatic tool calling to build faster, more capable agents at a fraction of the cost.
Holiday Creator Calendars Are Filling Up. Q4 Panic Is Optional.
Creators lock in their holiday content calendars 90 days out, before most ecommerce brands finalize their commission strategy and way before Black Friday and October deal events.
Get ahead of the seasonal rush with The 90-Day Holiday Sprint, a practical guide for brands that want creators driving holiday demand while competitors are still recruiting:
Structure commissions by lifetime value, not just first-order margin
Lead with the right products so creators promote with confidence
Recruit and onboard creators with a day-by-day plan for the first 30 days
Read performance early and pull program levers by Day 60
Brief creators with a holiday checklist before calendars fill up
Your 90-day countdown starts now.
Data science is a rapidly evolving field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. As the volume, variety, and velocity of data continue to grow, data scientists need sophisticated tools to handle and analyze this data
The Chinese AI lab just unveiled GLM 5.3, which is built on the same 743B base as GLM 5.2. This time, the improvements come entirely from scaled up post training. The model surprisingly beats Fable 5 and DeepSeek V4 on Terminal Bench 2.1.
🚀 Dive into the World of Machine Learning System Design! 🌐How do companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash apply machine learning to improve their products and processes? We put together a database of 800 case studies from 100 companies that share practical ML use cases and learnings from designing ML systems.️
Agents usually start out great but quickly get bogged down by context bloat and vague instructions that lead to hallucinations or broken loops. This guide teaches you how to dial in your AGENTS.md file to keep things on track.
Design the core of a location-based dating app: a user sees a feed of nearby candidate profiles, swipes like or pass on each one, and when two people like each other they match and can start talking…Tinder looks like a nearby-search problem: find profiles near me, filter by preference, done. That is only half the problem, and the smaller half. Every swipe is a write, and a user issues one swipe for every card in their feed — the feed is read far less often than its contents are acted on.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Continuous Claude (GitHub Repo)
Continuous Claude is a framework that saves state to a ledger, wipes context, and resumes fresh.
Stirrup (GitHub Repo)
Stirrup is a framework for building agents that lets models choose their own approach to completing tasks.
ExecuTorch (GitHub Repo)
ExecuTorch is a solution for deploying AI models on-device. Built by PyTorch for privacy, performance, and portability, ExecuTorch powers KPWA meta's on-device AI across Instagram, WhatsApp, Quest 3, Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and more.
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Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested feature, and it’s basically a prerequisite for any modern DAW.
22 ChatGPT Agents Built for Every Marketing Job
Most marketers use ChatGPT to do general research and then call it an AI strategy. The ones outperforming them are deploying specialized agents built for specific jobs.
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Competitive intelligence agent that visits competitor websites and builds detailed comparison matrices automatically
Customer feedback analyzer that ranks improvement opportunities by business impact
Social listening specialist that monitors brand mentions and flags reputation risks before they escalate
Campaign optimization agents that handle attribution analysis and surface what is actually driving results
Your competitors are already running agents like these.
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SpaceX officially owns Cursor. The $60 billion acquisition of the San Francisco-based coding startup was first announced in April, and now gives SpaceX a boost to compete against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. It’s an unusual combination, but one that gives SpaceX one of the hottest coding-agent teams in the industry as it pushes Grok beyond a chatbot.
Every AI feature on an iPhone in China was set to run on someone else’s model. Now there’s one Apple trained in-house with Alibaba’s help, and Beijing signed off.
Bay Area psychologists are seeing a new wave of “complicity grief,” driven by uncomfortable feelings tech workers are experiencing as AI and the automations they developed start to threaten their own careers. In a recent survey of over 8k tech workers, an estimated 55.7% of respondents reported burnout
Europe might be getting a robotaxi invasion. Chinese autonomous vehicle maker Pony.ai and Uber are planning to bring 2,000 robotaxis to four cities in Europe as part of an expanded partnership. The partners didn’t share a timeline of when the taxis would be deployed or where exactly they’d launch, but details will be released in phases.
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AI Tutorial
How to write and edit docs faster with Claude
Install Claude for Word, open Microsoft Word and sign in with a Team or Enterprise account that has Claude enabled
Open any document you want to work on
Click the Claude sidebar (usually on the right side of Word) to launch it
Highlight the text you want help with (or keep the document unselected for full-document edits)
Type a prompt like “rewrite this professionally” or “summarize this section”
Review Claude’s suggestions directly in the document
Ask follow-ups in the sidebar to refine tone, length, or clarity
Repeat until your document is polished
🔥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
AirRankPilot helps local businesses get discovered by Google and AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity
InboxKit is your all-in-one platform for building, managing, and scaling cold-email infrastructure.
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