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📚 Ultimate Guide to LLM Fine-Tuning
🦾Plus: Google-Anthropic Cloud deal 💰
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
💼How Data Engineering Services Are Reshaping Global Business Strategies
⚠️SQL Anti-Patterns You Should Avoid
🗺️Spatial machine learning with R: caret, tidymodels, and mlr3
🤖Build, Test, and Deploy AI Agent Workflows Visually
💻 OpenAI acquires Mac automation startup
👋 Copilot’s personality upgraded with ‘Mico’
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Build an AI-Native Mobile App in Minutes
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A 115-page guide covers everything you need to fine-tune LLMs, from fundamentals to advanced techniques. If you’re serious about mastering LLM fine-tuning, this is one of the most comprehensive open resources available.
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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.
Today, I will be talking about some of the common and high impact SQL anti-patterns I have seen from experience that can make queries and pipelines difficult to maintain, or have slower than expected performance. These issues can compound, causing erosion in trust in data, and slower query development in general…
In this blog post, we compare three of the most popular machine learning frameworks in R: caret, tidymodels, and mlr3. We use a simple example to demonstrate how to use these frameworks for a spatial machine learning task and how their workflows differ.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
precloud
An open source command line interface that runs checks on infrastructure as code to catch potential deployment issues before deploying.
OTF
An open source alternative to terraform enterprise.
kysely
A type-safe typescript SQL query builder.
GraphGPT
Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text using GPT-3.
AI News:
OpenAI just acquired Software Applications Incorporated, the startup behind unreleased Mac automation tool Sky — bringing on the team that created the iOS app (Workflow) that eventually became Apple Shortcuts after a 2017 acquisition. Sky operates as a floating AI interface on Mac desktops, analyzing screen content and executing tasks across applications.
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Anthropic now has access to up to a million of Google's custom-designed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) thanks to a new deal worth tens of billions of dollars. The deal is expected to bring well over a gigawatt of AI compute capacity online in 2026. Anthropic spreads its workloads across vendors, letting it fine-tune for price, performance, and power constraints.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is launching a 'review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value' due to multiple offers for both the entire company and Warner Bros. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Paramount, and Comcast are reportedly interested in buying WBD as a whole or acquiring pieces of the company.
Netflix executives declared that the streaming giant is going “all in” on AI during the company’s earnings call this week across both business operations and content production, coming despite the broader industry’s continued skepticism. Netflix outlined plans to deploy AI across recommendations, advertising, and production workflows, saying the company is “well positioned” for the AI boom.
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