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🗺️ The Roadmap for Mastering Agentic AI in 2026
🦾Plus: 🧠 Mistral drops Large 3 open model lineup
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🎓6 Career Possibilities With a Degree in AI and ML
📘Harvard Released a Free Book on ML Systems Engineering
🧠Acontext - Context Data Platform for Self-Learning Agents
🔧Better Agents - Open Project Structure for building AI Agents
🚀 Amazon drops AI agents, models, chips at re:Invent
💰Anthropic preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever
💡 AI Tutorial:Create on-brand marketing campaigns with Pomelli
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Agentic AI is changing how we interact with machines. Unlike traditional AI, which only reacts to commands, agentic AI can plan, act, and make decisions on its own to achieve complex goals. You see it in self-driving robots, digital assistants, and AI agents that handle business workflows or research tasks. This type of AI boosts productivity. This guide gives a clear, step-by-step roadmap to master agentic AI in 2026.
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If you’re uncertain about whether to study AI and ML, it’s worth pointing out that the career prospects for specialists in these fields are second to none. Here are just a few examples of how your academic knowledge can turn into a compelling career.
Harvard published a comprehensive, free book on ML systems engineering a practical guide for designing, building, and operating real-world machine learning systems. The book focuses on end-to-end production workflows and offers technically grounded guidance on system architecture, data pipelines, deployment, and long-term operations.
Acontext is an open source context data platform that simplifies context engineering by letting agents remember what they did, what worked, and what they learned. Instead of resetting every session, it captures conversations, tasks, artifacts, and outcomes so agents can reuse past knowledge.
Better Agents is a CLI tool and standards kit for building production-ready agent projects. Most agentic projects start without a real structure. Testing, evaluation, and prompt versioning get added only when things break, which slows teams down and makes it hard to build agents you can trust.
think-cell integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office on both Windows and Mac. Secure architecture ensures deployment is fast and reliable, so your teams can start maximizing their productivity immediately. New to think-cell? Try it in a free 30-day trial and accelerate your enterprise-wide efficiency. No charges. No credit card needed.
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think-cell integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office on both Windows and Mac. Secure architecture ensures deployment is fast and reliable, so your teams can start maximizing their productivity immediately.
Astro is a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. It features server-side rendering, image optimization, Markdown support, and a custom build engine. Version 1.0 was recently released.
DNS Reaper is a subdomain takeover tool that can be used as an attacker, defender, or bug hunting tool.
AI News:
Mistral released a full suite of open models, with Large 3 trained on roughly 3,000 H200 GPUs and listing 41B active parameters. The smaller Ministers focus on local setups and offer solid instruction and reasoning results, with the 14B model reaching strong scores. Everything is available through major cloud platforms and Mistral AI Studio.
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AWS kicked off its annual re:Invent conference with a wave of AI announcements, including new foundation models, a model training service, three development agents with agentic platform upgrades, and a new Trainium 3 AI chip. The Nova 2 family includes Lite, Pro, Sonic for voice, and Omni for multimodal, hailing industry-leading cost-effectiveness and competitive benchmarks.
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new reasoning model that Sam Altman says outperforms Google’s upcoming Gemini 3 in internal tests, with a release planned as early as next week. The push is part of an internal “Code Red” effort as Google’s Gemini user base climbs and its models regain benchmark leadership. To focus on the launch, OpenAI is pausing several projects, including advertising plans, new autonomous agents, and its “Pulse” briefing service.
Anthropic is in early talks to launch an IPO next year. It has engaged a law firm that previously worked on high-profile tech IPOs such as Google, LinkedIn, and Lyft. The company has also discussed a potential IPO with major investment banks, but the discussions are in an informal preliminary stage.
Google launched Android 16 with AI-powered notification summaries that condense long messages and group chats into quick overviews. The update also includes customization options like custom icon shapes and automatic dark mode for apps without native dark themes, while introducing enhanced accessibility features.
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AI Tutorial
🔥 Create on-brand marketing campaigns with Pomelli
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Pomelli (by Google Labs and DeepMind) to automatically create your business identity and generate on-brand marketing campaigns with ready-to-use creatives.
Step-by-step:
Go to Pomelli, click "Let's Get Started", enter your website URL - Pomelli scans and extracts colors, fonts, taglines, tone, and product cues
Edit your "Business DNA" summary by adjusting colors, values, and copy to match your brand vision - all fields are customizable
Prompt the campaign generator: "Create a scary but kind Halloween campaign", review three variations like "Give them something good" or "Treat yourself, no tricks"
In the creative editor, change headlines, text, fonts, colors, resize for different placements, use "Fix layout" to auto-reflow elements, and add a call-to-action
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Read the guide to get your CTV campaign live in time for the holiday rush.
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Marblism generates a fully-functional web application from a single prompt:
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
podcast.ai, a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
Verk- Hire AI employees to add more firepower to your team, who work 24/7 to do sales, be your personal assistant, do graphic designing and more
Codetoflow enables you to understand the code in simple terms using a flowchart which enables you to understand the details
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