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Python Projects to Automate the Boring Stuff 🤖
🦾Plus: OpenAI launches o3-pro 🤖
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📊How to Get Started Monitoring Your Machine Learning Models
🍏 Apple’s On-Device AI and Containers for Developers
🔌One SDK to Connect AI Agents to 10,000+ tools via MCP
🧠 Mistral drops its first reasoning models
💫 OpenAI CEO says AI takeoff has started
💰Meta "acquires" Scale AI
💡 AI Tutorial:How to build your own AI voice from scratch
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
We've all been there, clicking through the same folders, renaming files, manually copying data between applications, and more. But you can automate most of this boring stuff with Python. I've put together a handful of practical Python projects that can help automate those mind-numbing tasks we all face. Each one is designed to solve a real problem you likely face everyday.
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Machine learning model monitoring refers to tracking and understanding your production models’ performance from a science and operation point of view. In other words, it’s the tracking of a Machine learning model during production so that you can fix any potential issues that may negatively impact your business.
Apple released the Foundation Models framework that gives you direct access to Apple Intelligence's on-device LLM with just 3 lines of Swift code, enabling offline AI features with guided generation and tool calling capabilities. The company also released an open-source Docker container alternative optimized for Apple Silicon.
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The French startup unveiled Magistral Medium, as well as a 24B-parameter, open-weight variant. Both can “think” through problems step-by-step to deliver more accurate results. While they can’t quite compete with Anthropic’s Claude 4 or Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, they mostly hold their own against DeepSeek’s R1.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Paws-on-MCP (GitHub Repo)
Paws-on-MCP is a comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that implements the latest specification. It demonstrates production-ready adherence to the MCP 2025-03-26 specification.
Onlook: Cursor for designers. Build websites, prototypes, and designs with AI in Next.js and Tailwind. Make edits directly in the browser DOM with a visual editor.
AI News:
OpenAI released o3-pro, an upgraded version of its reasoning model that outperforms competitors on key benchmarks — while simultaneously reducing its o3 prices by 80% in a direct challenge to Google and Anthropic’s top models. o3-Pro is designed to "think longer," boosting reliability and performance in technical fields like math, science, and programming.
56% of workers say scheduling a meeting is the only way to get information. With Jira, use AI to automatically add work from Slack, create subtasks, or attach relevant resources. So instead of scheduling a meeting, check the status in Jira. Easy.
Meta is reportedly shaking up its AI division with a new “superintelligence lab” hand picked by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with a multi-billion dollar deal to bring Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and other top talent onboard. The $15B deal sends cash to Scale's existing shareholders while allowing Meta to sidestep regulatory acquisition concerns with a 49% stake in the company.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a new blog post titled “The Gentle Singularity,” claiming humanity has passed the AI event horizon — predicting superintelligence will reshape society, but its changes will remain manageable.
OpenAI has quietly signed a cloud deal with Google, though they’re direct AI competitors. This is an "arms dealer" play. Microsoft’s tight grip on OpenAI may be loosening.
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AI Tutorial
How to build your own AI voice from scratch
Go to Hume.ai and create an account.
Select Design a voice and grant access to your device’s microphone (the creation process is entirely verbal).
Hume’s AI will start a conversation with you. Just describe the qualities you want the voice to have.
Answer all the questions until Hume AI stops asking, or select Proceed to Customized Voice if you feel you’ve given enough detail. The AI will then create the voice.
Engage in a conversation with your newly created voice to check if it’s what you wanted.
You can provide feedback. If you like the voice, click the thumbs-up symbol.
If you click the thumbs-down symbol, you’ll have the option to try creating the same voice again. Click Retry and it will re-generate, hopefully giving you something closer to what you want.
Once you’re done, you can click the + icon to add the voice to your account – select Continue, or just exit the chat by clicking the red button to return to the home screen.
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