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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📈 ML Model Monitoring 101
🗄New Oracle Database Stays Online Even During Outages
📝POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language
📂AGENT.md: The Universal Agent Configuration File
🧠Alexa Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. How Smart Is It Now?
📌 Pinterest swerves agentic AI shopping
💡 AI Tutorial:How to dub a video with AI
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This survey reviews LLM and MLLM methods for table understanding, outlining a taxonomy of tabular representations and tasks. It identifies key gaps, including limited reasoning beyond retrieval, difficulties with complex or large-scale tables, and poor generalization across diverse formats.
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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.
Oracle has introduced its Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, a new OCI cloud service for global apps that demand high availability, speed, and data residency compliance. It automatically distributes and syncs data across multiple regions, keeping applications online even during regional outages.
POML is a novel markup language that provides a systematic way to organize prompt components, integrate diverse data types, and manage presentation variations, addressing common challenges in prompt development and empowering developers to create more sophisticated and reliable AI applications.
This document presents a standardized format that lets codebases speak directly to any agentic coding tool. Developers currently have to maintain separate config files for each tool they want to use. AGENT.md allows them to use one file for all agents. Its format is designed to be human-readable while providing structured information that can be parsed by agentic coding tools.
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TypeGPU (GitHub Repo)
TypeGPU is a modular and open-ended toolkit for WebGPU that enables resource management in a type-safe, declarative way.
Anubis (GitHub Repo)
Anubis is a tool that tests connections using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge to protect upstream resources from scraper bots
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Immediately after GPT-5’s launch, OpenAI faced backlash for removing its older models. The company has since restored GPT-4o for Plus subscribers. The move follows widespread frustration over losing direct model choice when GPT-5 became the default. Users on Reddit described GPT-4o as warmer, more consistent, and better suited for creative or complex work, while others relied on it for emotional support
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Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner just reportedly raised over $1.5B in funding for his ‘Situational Awareness’ AI-focused hedge fund, despite having zero professional investing experience. Aschenbrenner was part of OpenAI’s superalignment team and was one of two employees fired in April 2024 after being accused of leaking sensitive info.
Three authors sued Anthropic over using their works for AI training, leading to a class certification that could expand to 7 million claimants, each eligible for up to $150,000 in damages. Anthropic says the ruling was rushed and lacked a detailed analysis of ownership, scope, and licensing.
Alexa+ is a remodel of Alexa that aims to marry the conversational skills of generative AI chatbots with the daily tasks the old Alexa did well. It is now being rolled out widely after being in a testing program for a few months. While the new Alexa is more fun to talk to and has some new capabilities, it is still too buggy and unreliable.
From Italy to a Nasdaq Reservation
How do you follow record-setting success? Get stronger. Take Pacaso. Their real estate co-ownership tech set records in Paris and London in 2024. No surprise. Coldwell Banker says 40% of wealthy Americans plan to buy abroad within a year. So adding 10+ new international destinations, including three in Italy, is big. They even reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.
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Pinterest CEO, Bill Ready, has declared that although agentic AI shopping agents are here, full agentic shopping—where AI agents complete purchases for users, autonomously— is still years away. He feels that “most users are not ready to relinquish shopping control, except for utilitarian purchases” and wants Pinterest to focus on using AI to meet consumer preferences, rather than complete purchases.
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AI Tutorial
How to dub a video with AI
With AI, you can automatically dub your videos into multiple languages in a few clicks.
Here's how:
Go to the ElevenLabs website and log in or create an account.
Select "Dubbing"
Click on "Create a Dub" and provide the required details, such as the video name, source language, target language, number of speakers, etc. Then upload the video or provide the link to it. (You can also just upload audio.)
Select "Create" and wait a few minutes. Once your video is generated, you can download it.
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