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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
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🔌MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
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🤖 Zuckerberg's AI Secret list
🦄 Chinese giants drop new reasoning, image models
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:Convert lecture videos into detailed study materials
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This paper introduces Mercury, a family of large-scale diffusion-based language models (dLLMs) optimized for ultra-fast inference. Unlike standard autoregressive LLMs, Mercury models generate multiple tokens in parallel via a coarse-to-fine refinement process.
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Companies have rapidly increased their adoption of big data analytics techniques, so that hey can manage and analyze large data sets in real time. Utilizing these insights, they can understand patterns, associations, and trends related to consumer behavior and interactions.
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AI News:
Meta continued its recruiting raid of OpenAI with four more researchers (now eight in all) moving to Mark Zuckerberg’s new superintelligence unit, with a WSJ report shedding new light on the CEO’s “secret list” of AI prospects. Meta reportedly hired four more researchers from OAI, including key contributors to o1, o3-mini, and GPT 4.1 — joining the four from last week.
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A new band called The Velvet Sundown is gaining attention for being AI-generated, and they already have over 400,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. The band launched less than a month ago and has two albums out.Their members and images show all the signs of being AI-made, raising questions online.
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Two of China’s top AI labs just dropped new models, with Tencent releasing a new Hunyuan-A13B open-source hybrid reasoning model and Alibaba introducing a ChatGPT 4o-type creative model called Qwen-VLo.
Anthropic just published new research detailing “Project Vend,” which let Claude control a small shop (a mini fridge) within the company’s office for a month — revealing both promising capabilities and spectacular, hilarious business failures.
Tesla routed a Model Y SUV from its Austin, Texas, Gigafactory to an apartment building in the area on June 27 - its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer. The vehicle transversed public roads, including highways, without a human in the driver's seat or front passenger seat.
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AI Tutorial
🎓 Convert lecture videos into detailed study materials
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the new video input feature of Google's Gemini to transform lecture videos into detailed notes and interactive quiz sessions to improve your study experience.
Step-by-step:
Go to Google's Gemini app and upload your lecture video.
Use this prompt: “Analyze this lecture video and provide: detailed outline, comprehensive notes, formulas/examples, and timestamps for each topic”
Follow up by requesting it to create a comprehensive quiz, plus answer keys with explanations
Ask it to code an interactive quiz based on this lecture content, and to include a hint button for when help is needed
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