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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📊Applications of Data Science in Business
🤖 ByteDance Open-Sources AI Coding Agent
🧠Build Deep Research Agents With OpenAI API
🔧Huawei’s Opensource Model Fixes MoE Problem
🚀 AGI is So 2024! The Superintelligence Rush Officially Started
⚡Tesla launches Oasis Supercharger with solar farm
💡 AI Tutorial:Build your own AI app with Claude Artifacts
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Executives at AI infrastructure companies have made bold claims about the technology, but developers often find these claims to fall spectacularly flat. This article looks at how AI is used within the tech industry to see why founders/CEOs are more bullish than devs about AI tools, how widespread usage is among developers, how much time AI tools really save, and more.
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As the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models continues to progress and evolve, it is becoming essential to manage them through dedicated technical platforms and model hubs such as Verta, a platform that notably offers the ModelOps option.
ByteDance just decided to give away the secret sauce. They have opensourced Trae Agent, the AI coding agent in their agentic terminal Trae. While everyone's debating subscription prices for Cursor and Claude, ByteDance dropped Trae Agent as MIT-licensed code that any developer can clone and modify.
OpenAI just dropped their Deep Research into the API, and they're packing some serious firepower.These are the same post-trained o3 and o4-mini models that power Deep Research in ChatGPT, now available with full programmatic access and native support for web search, code execution, and MCP servers that let you plug into your own data sources.
Mixture of Experts architecture powers some of the frontier models today. But they might be wasting your compute resources because some experts work overtime while others sit idle. China’s Huawei released Pangu Pro MoE 72B model that tackles this chaos with a Mixture of Grouped Experts (MoGE) that enforces balanced expert activation across predefined groups.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
VectorChord (GitHub Repo)
VectorChord is a PostgreSQL extension designed for scalable, high-performance, and disk-efficient vector similarity search.
Sequin (GitHub Repo)
Sequin is a tool for change data capture in Postgres that supports native sinks, making it easy to stream Postgres rows and changes to streaming platforms and queues.
Skia Canvas (GitHub Repo)
Skia Canvas is a browser-less implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for Node.js. It produces very similar results to Chrome's canvas element.
AI News:
The Trump administration says it's close to an agreement for a TikTok sale that satisfies the law's requirements, but it involves a new, separate version of the app. The deal still needs approval from the Chinese government. TikTok staff are reportedly working on a new version of the app for release in app stores on September 5
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AGI? As in, artificial “general” intelligence? That's so 2024. Now, everyone's racing to build artificial “superintelligence” by 2027. Just look at the marketing language:
Meta renaming its entire lab to Meta Superintelligence Labs
Sam Altman calling our current moment a “gentle singularity”
Anthropic predicting a “country of geniuses in a data center” by 2026–2027
Tesla's Oasis Supercharger, an EV charging station with a solar farm and off-grid batteries, is now open in Lost Hills, California. The project consists of 168 chargers, half of which are currently operational. It is equipped with 11 MW of ground-mounted solar panels and canopies. Spanning 30 acres of land, it has 10 Tesla Megapacks with a total energy storage capacity of 39 MWh.
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Google DeepMind’s spinout Isomorphic Labs is about to start human trials for its AI-designed drugs, aiming to transform drug discovery forever. The company raised $600 million in 2025 and signed major deals with Novartis and Eli Lilly. It hopes to design drugs faster and cheaper, with higher success rates, using AI.
On Friday, Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had improved his AI chatbot, Grok, “significantly” by retraining it on “less garbage” data (after previously asking users to share “diverse facts” that could be seen as “politically incorrect, but factually true”). However, users have since reported that the “newly improved” Grok criticizes Democrats, Jewish Hollywood executives, and even Musk himself.
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AI Tutorial
✍️ Build your own AI app with Claude Artifacts
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Claude Artifacts' new API integration to create custom AI-powered tools directly inside Claude.
Step-by-step:
Click the artifacts button on Claude's left sidebar and then “New artifact”
Use a prompt that requests AI tool capabilities, e.g., "Create a grammar AI checker with two text areas (Original vs Fixed text) and a 'Fix Grammar' button."
Customize with additional features: "Add word count and change highlighting"
Test with sample text and save to your artifacts library for future use.
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