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🤖 Tech companies move to open AI models
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Shared Agents, Gemini on windows, voice agents 👇
🗄️The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query
🎙️Building low-latency voice agents (by Google)
🤖Meta to announce Shared Agents for Muse at Meta Connect
🤖 The Frontier Labs Lost the Moat
💡 AI Tutorial:Turn any Google Sheets into an app
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Companies are experimenting with cheaper open models on inference providers. There is a trend toward more investment in model routing to route simpler requests to cheaper models. The industry is seeing more knowledge-sharing sessions on how to use AI models cost-effectively. More and more companies are setting per-developer limits on AI usage.
AI made PMs faster. Multiplayer mode is still broken.
A PM can summarize research, draft a PRD, and mock up a prototype before lunch. The hard part starts when the team has to decide what actually gets built.
Jira Product Discovery gives product teams one place to capture insights, prioritize ideas with consistent frameworks, and build living roadmaps stakeholders can rally around.
And because it’s connected to Jira, the context behind every decision stays with the work—so developers and their agents know not just what to build, but why.
AI helps PMs move faster. Jira Product Discovery helps the whole team build with confidence.
Agentic coding tools are redefining how developers write, test, refactor, and deploy software. Unlike traditional code assistants, agentic CLIs can plan tasks, modify multiple files, run commands, debug issues, and iteratively improve solutions with minimal human input — all directly from the terminal.
This post follows the journey of a PostgreSQL query through all of the layers of a complex sharded system. It aims to help readers understand what goes into making a large-scale sharded PostgreSQL deployment appear to be a single server even when spanning thousands of servers. A real database has hundreds of tables - the example in the post keeps the schema simple with two tables spread across four shards.
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Learn how to make voice agents feel a lot less sluggish. Instead of waiting for someone to finish speaking, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live streams the conversation in real time, so the agent can start figuring out what to do in the background. The guide walks through a debate agent, but the same setup works for things like call centers, meeting assistants, and other live voice apps.
Meta's Muse app will introduce a "Shared Agents" feature, allowing users to create customizable agents that can be shared with others, similar to Grokbot's system. This could benefit small businesses already using Meta platforms by enabling specialized agents for workflows like customer support and sales.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Moyai - Stop guessing if your agents are failing and start monitoring them for failures. We surface agent failures by looking for behavioural anomalies your your agent traces and classify failures with RCA and remediation steps.
Minio - See Databricks query on-prem Iceberg and Delta tables live. It's the kind of integration that made Databricks name MinIO its ISV Storage Partner of the Year. See it in action in the demo.
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
AI News:
Astra is drawing more demand than OpenAI’s systems can handle. New Pro subscriptions have been paused to provide better access for existing users, while they work to meet the rush. OpenAI paused new $200-a-month Pro signups, with a product lead calling Astra demand "unprecedented"
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Google’s AI assistant now opens over your work with a keyboard shortcut. The Windows app brings chat, tasks, image creation, and video gen together, keeping help close.
The NSA, CISA, and FBI named six Chinese AI firms (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) for industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok since late 2024, likely with Chinese government knowledge. China calls the claims groundless. The reveal sits in the mitigations: the agencies admit detection cannot separate thieves from customers, and advise labs to secretly degrade responses, or quietly route suspects to weaker models, without saying so.
Amazon advertisers will be able to extend their campaigns into conversational experiences on ChatGPT as part of a new partnership between the e-commerce giant and the chatbot’s developer OpenAI, according to news shared with Marketing Dive.
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems. Each signatory has been awarded the Fields Medal, considered the most prestigious prize in mathematics.
AI Tutorial
Turn any Google Sheets into an app
Open the Google Sheet you want to use.
Click the Gemini icon in the top right.
In the settings, select "Create canvas."
Describe the app you want to create. For example: "Create a dashboard based on this data."
Gemini will generate the app, with the sheet essentially serving as its database.
You'll not only be able to visualize the data but also input new data.
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