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🤖 Perplexity built its own Search Database
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of ElevenLabs MCP, Pi coding agent, 👇
⚡️ElevenLabs put 50+ creative models behind one MCP
🤖Putting Claude and Gemini on the same agent team (by Google)
💻How to code with Pi coding agent
🏗️ Chinese researchers detail 'the last AI built by humans'
💡 AI Tutorial:How to build a personal research assistant with Claude
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Perplexity published CobbleDB, the key-value database it built to serve prepared web content for AI search. Replacing DynamoDB reportedly cut median batch-read latency from 31.4ms to 5.60ms and p99 from 123ms to 24.2ms. Perplexity also estimates at least 20% lower cost and plans to open-source CobbleDB after more production hardening.
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Adding mailboxes to cold emails.
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Running more ads.
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Data engineering is fascinating, if not fulfilling career. You are at the helm of every business operation that requires data, and as long as users generate data, businesses will always need data engineers. In other words, job security is guaranteed.
Speech, transcripts, dubs, music, sound effects, images, and video all sit behind the same MCP surface. If your workflow currently bounces between five creative tabs and a chat window, this removes a very real amount of copy-paste friction. The agent can call the media tool instead of asking you to become the glue.
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Google Cloud shows why you shouldn’t force one model to do everything. The guide uses Gemini 3.8 Flash as the fast, cheap worker for routine tasks, then escalates harder or irreversible work to Claude Fable 5.1 for deeper planning. It also walks through benchmarking both models on your own tasks and wiring them into the same agent workflow.
This tutorial shows how to turn Pi from a minimal agent harness into something much more capable. You’ll learn how to add subagents for parallel work and MCP for connecting external tools, so you can build more complex agentic workflows without moving to a heavier framework.
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Xcode has all the tools needed to develop, test, and distribute apps for Apple platforms. Xcode 27 features coding agents powered by any model.
AI News:
Ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida’s TypeSafe just emerged from stealth with Jev, a new kind of AI that answers preset questions inside software with confidence scores attached, claiming zero hallucinations and extreme speed and price. Jev runs at $42 for a billion input tokens, and output is free (!), a rate TypeSafe estimates at 238x below Claude Fable 5.1's pricing.
Some teams never seem to stop moving. They're on Attio, the agentic CRM.
It’s your always-on revenue engine: agents and workflows build pipeline, chase every buying signal, and move deals forward alongside your team.
Teams like Parallel, Turbopuffer, and Wordsmith build on Attio. Are you one of them?
Turns out Anthropic would rather ring a bell than raise another round. The AI lab is pressing ahead with an initial public offering on Nasdaq at a reported $2 trillion valuation, per Bloomberg, which would rank among the largest listings ever attempted. Nvidia is reportedly weighing roughly $10 billion into the offering... one way to keep your biggest customer close.
30+ Chinese AI researchers, including those from ByteDance, Tsinghua, and Shanghai AI Lab, published “The Last AI Built by Humans,” a roadmap detailing five levels of recursive self-improvement, ending with AI that builds its successors. Level 1 has the AI carrying out upgrades humans designed, while Level 2 lets it diagnose its own weak spots and decide how to fix them.
Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back on calls for an industry-wide AI slowdown, saying each lab should move at the pace needed to train safely. He points to Meta delaying Muse for months to strengthen safety and security, using independent evaluators, and committing most compute to serving people rather than recursive self-improvement. His bet is that trust and alignment will become competitive advantages.
Turns out Meta does want a monthly cut of your scrolling. The company launched Meta One on Tuesday, a subscription spanning Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that bundles AI image editing, video generation and Instagram's Restyle tool into a $7.99 Core tier and a $19.99 Premium tier. It follows the $3.99 app-level plans added in March, which reportedly pushed Instagram's daily revenue to $1.2 million.
LinkedIn's reach became erratic. Join Christopher Penn (Trust Insights) and Mike Allton (Agorapulse) live on October 1st for the data on what actually changed and the metrics that matter
AI Tutorial
How to build a personal research assistant with Claude
Open Claude and select Cowork in the chat.
In the left sidebar, find Projects and click ‘+’ to create a new project.
Give the project a focused name, such as AI Industry Research, Competitor Intelligence, or PhD Research Assistant.
Add the files Claude should repeatedly reference, such as reports, research papers, notes, spreadsheets, or previous analyses.
Add project instructions explaining how your assistant should research and respond.
Sample instructions:
“Act as my research assistant for [topic]. Prioritize credible primary sources, distinguish facts from interpretation, cite sources, flag conflicting evidence, and summarize findings into Key Findings, Evidence, Implications, and Open Questions. Remember useful context from previous work in this project.”
Open the project and start a Cowork task whenever you need research done, such as: “Research the latest developments in [topic] and update my existing analysis with anything materially new.”
Keep related research inside the same Project. Claude’s project memory can use context from previous tasks in that Project, keeping it separate from your unrelated projects.
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