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🧠Understanding & Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch
🦾Plus: Gemini expands ✨, xAI burns $1B/month 💰
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
đź”®The Future of Quantum Computing and Its Implications
🧰 Redis 8.0 Is Here
👨‍💻Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs
đź“šAdopting Docs-as-Code at Pinterest
🤖 China’s AI avatars outsell humans in livestream
🧠ChatGPT may weaken brain activity, MIT study finds
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:Add image generation and editing to projects
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
KV caches are one of the most critical techniques for efficient inference in LLMs in production. KV caches are an important component for compute-efficient LLM inference in production. This article explains how they work conceptually and in code with a from-scratch, human-readable implementation.
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Harnessing the vast potential of quantum computing isn’t a walk in the park. Researchers must coordinate efforts, manage resources, and keep projects on track as researchers push boundaries. This is where the top project management tools step in.
Redis 8.0 introduces powerful new capabilities and over 30 performance improvements. The Redis Community Edition has been renamed to Redis Open Source - this version offers the full power of Redis. This post looks at the new features, improvements, and changes with the update. There are some breaking changes regarding ACL behavior and the Redis Query Engine.
The opportunity cost for using niche languages is now substantially increasing, which means language designers will be held to a higher standard to justify the use of their domain-specific languages.
Docs-as-code is the philosophy that you should be writing documentation using the same tools and processes you use for code. In practice, this means several things: Documentation is often written in a markup language such as Markdown.
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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries
lstr (GitHub Repo)
lstr is a blazingly fast, minimalist directory tree viewer with a powerful interactive mode.
mcp-containers: Pre-built Docker images for 450+ MCP servers. No manual setup required, just pull the image.
Trieve CLI: A Terminal-based RAG agent that lets you upload documents and ask questions about the knowledge base.
AI News:
Google just graduated its Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models to stable production status after months of preview version updates, while also rolling out a new, hyper-efficient Flash-Lite variant.
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Meta seems to be on a hiring spree lately to staff up its new superintelligence team. It has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages worth upwards of $100 million. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that those efforts have largely been unsuccessful.
Chinese entrepreneur Luo Yonghao just utilized an AI digital twin on a six-hour livestream on Baidu’s e-commerce platform, outperforming his human-led streams with over $7M in sales generated during the broadcast.
xAI is trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity, with plans to spend more than half of it in just the next three months. The startup is expected to burn through about $13 billion over the course of 2025. Its prolific fundraising efforts are just barely keeping pace with expenses.
A new MIT study says ChatGPT could harm brain development when used for schoolwork, especially in younger users. Researchers tested 54 students writing essays with ChatGPT, Google, or no tools. ChatGPT users showed the lowest brain activity and effort over time.
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AI Tutorial
🎨 Add image generation and editing to projects
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Flux.1 Kontext API to add professional image generation and editing capabilities to any application with simple API calls.
Step-by-step:
Visit Black Forest Labs playground, create a free account, and copy your API key for authentication
Use the Google Colab notebook provided here, replace “BFL_API_KEY” with your key, and modify the prompt
For editing, upload your image to Colab, update the filename, and add editing prompts
Copy the working code to Cursor/Windsurf and prompt: “Create a web app for image generation with this API structure”
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