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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🌍How Data Engineering Reshaping Business Strategies
🧪 Google presents DialogLab
📊HBR Study: Engineers spend more time reviewing AI-assisted code
⚠️Anthropic details Claude Opus 4.6’s sabotage risk
🧠 Z.ai’s GLM-5 — the new open-source king
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create professional presentations in PowerPoint
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In this article, we explore the top embedding models for both English-only and multilingual performance, ranked using a retrieval-focused evaluation index. These models are highly popular, widely adopted in real-world systems, and consistently deliver accurate and reliable retrieval results across a range of RAG use cases.
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Data engineering services have evolved into a critical pillar of enterprise strategy. They empower businesses to manage massive datasets, optimize decisions, and uncover hidden insights. In 2025, companies that leverage big data engineering services are achieving faster innovation, stronger operational efficiency, and a data-driven edge over their competitors.
Most AI chat systems handle one person at a time. Real conversations do not work that way. Google Research releases DialogLab to model structured, multi-party human-AI discussions with direct control over how agents speak and interact. Multi-party dialogue introduces role shifts, interruptions, and uneven participation. You can usually choose between rigid scripts or fully autonomous agents. DialogLab combines both.
1. Connect your data
2. Add instructions
3. Customize style
Publish and share with anyone or embed on your site.
An eight-month field study covered AI use inside a 200-person U.S. tech company and tracked what actually changed. Researchers observed teams twice a week and ran 40+ interviews across engineering, product, design, research, and operations. The key result: AI did not shrink work. It made people move faster, take on more tasks, and stay mentally engaged longer.
Anthropic published its latest Sabotage Risk Report, revealing that its new Claude Opus 4.6 model displays an “elevated susceptibility” to be misused for “heinous crimes,” including assisting in the development of chemical weapons. Anthropic found Opus 4.6 knowingly supported crimes like chemical weapon development in small ways, but could not execute attacks on its own.
This new ElevenLabs guide walks developers through the frameworks, structure, and evaluation methods that make conversational agents reliable, secure, and context-aware.
Learn how to build and iterate on prompts that deliver real-world results, fast.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
It contains 4,343 production-ready JSON workflows for the n8n automation platform, includes 365 distinct service integrations and spans 15 categories. You search, filter by trigger types, and download clean JSONs for immediate use.
Runme (GitHub Repo)
Runme is a tool that makes runbooks runnable, allowing users to execute instructions, check intermediate results, and ensure the desired outputs are achieved.
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China’s Z.ai just launched GLM-5, a 744B-parameter open-weights model that further closes the gap with the West’s frontier — sitting just behind Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 on Artificial Analysis benchmarks. GLM-5 scored 50 on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index, surpassing closed models like Gemini 3 Pro and Grok 4 as well as open-source ones like Kimi K2.5.
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Well, that’s one way to get around tight U.S. export controls. ByteDance is reportedly developing its own artificial intelligence chip and has entered talks with Samsung Electronics for manufacturing support. The chip, designed for AI interference tasks, should be shipped ins amples by the end of March with plans to produce 100,000 units in 2026.
Windows and Office users, be warned. Hackers are exploiting critical zero-day bugs to plant malware or gain access to a victim’s computer with minimal user interaction. Microsoft has rolled out fixes for security vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, so keep an eye out for the update.
Several highly anticipated Siri functions may be pushed back as testing has run into snags in recent weeks. Apple now plans to spread out new capabilities over several versions, so some features will be postponed until iOS 26.5 or iOS 27. One feature especially likely to slip is the expanded ability for Siri to tap into personal data.
The FCC authorized Amazon to deploy 4,500 additional Leo internet satellites.The new tranche would bring Amazon’s planned constellation to roughly 7,700 satellites. Leo is poised to rival SpaceX’s Starlink, which has more than 9,000 satellites in orbit and roughly 9 million customers.
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AI Tutorial
How to create professional presentations in PowerPoint
Source: Timmysofine
Open PowerPoint
Click Add-ins in the Home tab
Search "Claude by Anthropic"
Install it and open the sidebar
Select Opus 4.6 as your model (the latest model)
Upload your data file (Excel, CSV, anything)
Prompt: "Turn this attached file into a professional presentation."
Wait for a few minutes, and your presentation will be ready
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