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In today's edition: Here is roundup of AI Agent Observability, parallelism, OpenAI image model 👇
🧠How to get more out of GPT-6 Astra (by OpenAI)
⚡Why more parallelism can make databases slower
🧠How Stripe built its company brain
🧮 OpenAI Says its AI Solved a $1M Millennium Prize Problem
💡 AI Tutorial:How to make ChatGPT Work write like you
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
When an experienced teammate leaves, the company usually keeps their documents and loses their judgment. Design docs record final decisions, but they rarely capture which risks the engineer checked first or when they would reject a proposal. Distilly is an open-source project built around this problem. It turns work conversations, review feedback, incident notes, and technical documents into a source-grounded Agent Skill.
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Traditional model observability focuses on prompts, outputs, latency, errors, token use, evaluation scores, and sometimes the sources a model consulted. Those signals remain useful. They become incomplete when an AI system can open files, call APIs, send messages, run code, create records, authorize transactions, or delegate work to another agent.Explore AI Tools
This guide walks through the best practices, new features, and migration advice for Astra. You’ll learn how to update your agent instructions and workflows for the new model, including features like async tool calling that let Astra keep working while other tools are still running.
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This blog explains why letting more requests run at once can make a database slower instead of faster. It walks through a real MySQL outage caused by a stuck transaction and a flood of queued requests, then shows the math behind why coordination costs grow faster than the work itself. You can use its pool-sizing and queuing approach to keep a database stable during traffic bursts.
In this tutorial, Stripe’s engineering leaders break down how they built Kai, the company’s internal agent platform. You’ll get a look at the system design, key technical decisions, and lessons learned from building an agent that can work across company knowledge and tools.
How Jennifer Aniston’s LolaVie brand grew sales 40% with CTV ads
The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
👨💻 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.
GodMode
AI Chat Browser: Fast, Full webapp access to ChatGPT / Claude / Bard / Bing / Llama2!
VisionScript
A high-level programming language for using computer vision.
stable-diffusion.cpp
Stable Diffusion in pure C/C++
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Meta would like the keys to your entire digital life, please. The company launched Muse, a personal AI agent for US users that plugs into email, calendars, payments and apps for health, shopping, dining and music. It can send emails, book travel, lower bills and buy things via Link by Stripe. There's a free tier plus $20 and $100 monthly plans.
100+ coding prompts top engineers use to ship 5X faster
Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor are on every engineer's stack. Most still treat them like a search bar. Top engineers work from a system, these 100+ prompts are that system. Sign up for The Code and get the prompts free, plus a 5-minute daily newsletter to keep sharpening your edge.
Turns out OpenAI will burn $22.5M of compute to win a math argument. Hours after NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs toward the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize problems, the lab published a full proof from an unreleased model that chewed through 300 billion output tokens. Buckmaster says OpenAI built on his work before it was public.
OpenAI just released ChatGPT Images 2.5, a new image model that cuts generation time by up to 50% over Images 2.0, brings upgrades to editing, and introduces features like sketch, templates, and shared images. OAI said 2.5 is “better at editing only what you’ve asked for,” avoiding the often awkward broader changes to the full image that have plagued previous models.
Anthropic hired Jacob Coxon from OpenAI in July, and a few hours ago the 27-year-old walked out of the company and out of the industry. Both labs are building AI that improves itself, and nobody has worked out how to keep such a system controlled. Evan Hubinger, who tests Anthropic's safety methods for holes, backed him up, and the company still has no plan for handling a system smarter than people.
Google's data centers are getting their own zombie power plant. The Energy Department handed NextEra Energy a $1.9Bn loan to refurbish Iowa's Duane Arnold Energy Center, mothballed since a 2020 storm wrecked it and now due to restart in 2029. It's the second loan of its kind after Three Mile Island. Google is reportedly eyeing up to six data centers nearby.
Most "hybrid" analytics setups still mean replicating data into the cloud first. AIStor skips that step. Watch a live walkthrough: import a share into Unity Catalog, query on-prem Iceberg and Delta tables directly, and get results back in seconds—no copy, no downsampling, no pipeline to maintain.
AI Tutorial
How to make ChatGPT Work write like you
Click here to get started with ChatGPT Work. Photo: OpenAI
Open ChatGPT and toggle on Work.
Go to Settings > Personalization > Writing Style
Connect the apps containing the best examples of your writing, such as Gmail, Google Drive, and Slack.
Let ChatGPT analyze the patterns in your writing.
Return to Work and ask ChatGPT to draft an email, message, document, or other piece of writing as normal.
Review the output to make sure the learned style sounds like you, and adjust the sources used for personalization if necessary.
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