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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🤖Top 20 Artificial Intelligence Platforms for 2026
⚔️Claude Code vs. Codex: A Dev's Honest Comparison
🎨Replit unveils Agent 4 built for Creativity
⏳Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
🤖 Musk revives Macrohard as a joint xAI-Tesla project
🔐 Google's $32B security bet reshapes cloud
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create notes in your own handwriting using Gemini
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Perplexity just debuted Personal Computer, a new local version of its Computer AI agent system that runs on a dedicated Mac mini — positioning itself as a more secure, controlled rival to the viral OpenClaw. The agent gives Perplexity's Comet assistant persistent local access to files, apps, and sessions on a Mac mini, able to be managed from anywhere.
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In 2025 as new updates and improvements take over the field of AI, the ranking of these AI platforms will have to shift. We look at the 20 best artificial intelligence platforms for 2026, and why we think they deserve to be on the list.
A developer who spent months on Claude Code, switched to Codex, and then switched back wrote a detailed comparison of the two, covering everything from Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3-Codex task-completion benchmarks to token efficiency (Codex uses 3-4x fewer tokens) to a head-to-head RAG pipeline build. The verdict? Claude Code won on feel, ecosystem pull, and that $100/month mid-tier pricing.
Replit has introduced Agent 4, a new AI coding agent built to help developers create software faster. The system can design interfaces, write code, manage databases, and run several tasks at once. Teams can submit multiple requests simultaneously while the agent organizes them and completes them in sequence. Replit says the approach lets developers focus more on ideas and less on coordination. Agent 4 can generate web apps, mobile apps, presentations, and other project assets inside the same workspace.
The JavaScript Temporal object, a full replacement for the Date object, enables date and time management in various scenarios, such as time zone and calendar representation, wall-clock time conversions, arithmetics, and formatting. It has an intricate and powerful API that exposes over 200 utility methods via several classes.
Building it through the AI shift is even rarer.
Klarna Co-Founder & CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski joins ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski to unpack what it takes to grow from startup to IPO, how Klarna is building with AI today, and what the next generation of customer experiences will look like.
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VisionScript
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stable-diffusion.cpp
Stable Diffusion in pure C/C++
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Anthropic unveiled the Anthropic Institute, a new group combining three teams under co-founder Jack Clark to study AI’s societal impacts, launching amid the company's legal battle with the Pentagon over its blacklisting as a supply-chain risk. The ~30-person team will merge Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, Societal Impacts, and economics research groups, with plans to double staff yearly.
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Elon Musk pushed back on reports that its AI software initiative Macrohard had stalled, revealing xAI's project is merging with Tesla's ‘Digital Optimus’ AI agent into a system he claims can "emulate the function of entire companies."The system will pair Grok with a ‘Digital Optimus’ agent, processing live screen video and inputs and borrowing techniques from Tesla's FSD tech.
37 rival AI researchers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind, 22 former military officials, and civil rights groups file briefs supporting Anthropic's motion against DoD classification.
Google has completed its acquisition of Wiz, a leading cloud and AI security platform, in Google's largest acquisition to date. The Wiz team will join Google Cloud while retaining its brand, giving Google a comprehensive platform to secure cloud, hybrid, and AI environments across enterprise systems.
Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone will have an iPad-like layout when opened. It will be able to run apps side-by-side for the first time. The interior foldable display will be roughly the size of an iPad mini. The external screen will be about the size of the display on a small iPhone.
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AI Tutorial
How to create notes in your own handwriting using Gemini
Image source: Preda2005
Go to NanoBanana and sign up.
Upload a small sample of your handwriting (just a few lines on paper).
Enter a prompt like this:
Sample Prompt: “Analyze the uploaded handwriting sample and match its style exactly (letter shapes, spacing, slant, and stroke flow). Write the following text in the same handwriting style: [sample text]”
Click generate.
Within seconds, Claude recreates your handwriting and writes the content directly in that style.
It looks like you personally wrote it.
AI can help you move faster, but real leadership still requires human judgment.
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🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Alice - A native app that offers fast and reliable experience with models (OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude and more)
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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
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