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In today's edition: Here’s the roundup of self-optimizing agent skills, document processing agents 👇
📊The 2026 Data Observability Vendor Database
🧠How your agents can write and optimize their own skills
📄 Turn Claude Code Into a Document Processing Agent
🔐 Use Agent Hooks to enforce guardrails
🚨 Mythos Broke Into US Classified Systems in Hours
💡 AI Tutorial:How to schedule anything in ChatGPT
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
The startup just dropped Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration platform that routes tasks across multiple specialist LLMs, claiming the results rival top frontier models without relying on any single one. Available via a single API endpoint, early benchmark results for Fugu are strong, but independent validation is still pending
LLM traffic converts 3× better than Google search
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The ones that are get cited by the AI tools their buyers, investors, and future hires already use. And they convert at 3×.
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The data observability market has evolved rapidly over the past five years. What began as a niche category focused primarily on monitoring modern data pipelines has expanded into a broad ecosystem encompassing anomaly detection, data quality, lineage, schema monitoring, business observability, and increasingly, AI-driven analytics
The real bottleneck for deploying reliable agentic systems is no longer the core capabilities of the underlying language model. Today’s LLMs have a lot of power. Optimizing these text files remains a slow and manual process. Developers must manually edit instructions, test them on a task suite, analyze failures, and rewrite the text. This manual loop is not scalable.
How do companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash apply machine learning to improve their products and processes? We put together a database of 200 case studies from 64 companies that share practical ML use cases and learnings from designing ML systems.️
ADE Document Processing Skills teaches agentic coding assistants how to write Python scripts that parse, extract, classify, and build processing pipelines for documents using LandingAI's Agentic Document Extraction. The core difference from traditional OCR: ADE is vision-first. It understands layout, not just text, so it handles complex tables, dense forms, multi-column pages, and scanned documents the way a human would read them.
Agent Hooks allow developers to interject themselves into an agent's workflow while they are doing work rather than after the work is done. They can stop agents from ignoring rules. This means agents can be used for deterministic checks that work 100% of the time. This article discusses how to create two agent hooks
Your creative brief is due Friday. Viktor wrote it Tuesday.
Tell him the campaign. Viktor pulls last quarter's performance from Meta and TikTok, scrapes competitor ads, drafts the brief, posts it for review. You edit, he ships the creative requests to your designer. Inside Slack.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Tame Your AI Monsters — The Claude Edition Claude is running in your enterprise. We're deploying Claude in our own enterprise. We're the first organization to put Rubrik Agent Cloud to work governing a live Claude implementation — and on June 30, we're opening that experience up in a hands-on lab.
Bentley – Join industry leaders for a webinar on June 24 at 11:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM BST to See how digital-first strategies and 4D modeling are accelerating the delivery of AI-scale data centers.
Thor.ai captures the blockers, decisions, and commitments that never make it into your tools — straight from Slack threads and meetings
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Banco Santander has announced plans to cut costs by more than 500 million euros (£433 million) by accelerating AI deployment across its global operations, including Santander UK. The Spanish banking giant is targeting over one billion euros in combined revenue gains and cost savings from AI between 2026 and 2028, with over half expected to come from cost reduction through automation, productivity gains, and process simplification.
Growth Requires Letting Go of the Wrong Work
The work that got you here won’t take you further.
Without support, it’s easy to stay stuck doing everything long after you’ve outgrown it.
Download Operator to Owner: How to Exit the Middle to learn how to refocus your time on the work that actually deserves you.
Senator Warner brought the example up to praise Anthropic, crediting it for testing the model and arguing that frontier labs should face government review before release. Anthropic says the flagged behavior was the model reviewing and fixing a codebase rather than running an attack on its own.
Tesla has filed a trademark application for a product called 'Megapod'. The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads. The product appears to be a turnkey AI data center building block that includes the full rack-and-room of servers, networking, power, and cooling. It would compete with Nvidia's already dominant platform.
Apple's industrial design organization used to be the heart and soul of the company. Today, the organization no longer has a true seat at Apple's executive table. It has become a place where other teams come to get what they need before promptly leaving. This article tells the story of the group's decline, its impact on the company, and Apple's plans to restore the design studio's prowess.
Perplexity is launching Brain, a self-improving memory system that studies how its AI assistant works and upgrades it overnight rather than during your active tasks. The assistant learns from your sessions, your connected tools, the files you create, and your corrections. Brain maps all of it into a living context graph that tells the assistant where to look first.
AI Tutorial
How to schedule anything in ChatGPT
Go to ChatGPT and sign up
Write a prompt to schedule a task and hit enter
Sample Prompt: “The day before every Portugal match send me a scouting report on the opponent including key players and tactics” or “Alert me whenever Nvidia, Tesla, or Apple announce major AI-related news”
Once the task is created, you’ll receive proactive notifications whenever the condition is met
Software scales instantly; physical compute doesn't. Join industry leaders for a webinar on June 24 at 11:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM BST to see how digital-first strategies and 4D modeling are accelerating the delivery of AI-scale data centers.
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