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Using Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with DuckDB 🤖
🦾Plus: 🧸 OpenAI, Mattel partner on AI toys
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
💻 Top 30 Agentic IDEs for Programmers in 2025
🔗 Entity-Resolved Knowledge Graphs with Kuzu & Senzin
🏗 Scalable Lakehouse Architecture with Iceberg & Polaris
🔐 Securing AI Agents: The Future of MCP Authentication & Authorization
🌪️ Google Launches 1-Minute, 15-Day Hurricane Forecasting AI
⚡ AMD Reveals Next-Gen AI Chips, Partners with OpenAI
🎬 Kalshi’s AI Ad Premieres During the NBA Finals
💡 AI Tutorial: How to Create PDFs in Grok"
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
To use the Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with DuckDB, you first have to create a S3 Table bucket, a namespace and an actual S3 Table. All those steps are described in my other blog post “Query S3 Tables with DuckDB”, so please make sure you followed the outlined (manual) steps of the Setting up a S3 Table section before continuing with this blog post.
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An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a software suite that provides programmers with the tools needed to develop applications efficiently. IDEs typically include features like debuggers and compilers, simplifying the coding process by bringing all essential development components into one platform.
Investigative graph analyses involve using a variety of graph queries and network analysis techniques to uncover patterns, relationships, and insights within complex data represented as a graph. They are commonly used in domains like social networks, finance, cybersecurity, and biology to discover useful relationships and structures within the data.
As AI agents like Claude, Cursor, and other intelligent assistants become integral to enterprise workflows, a critical security challenge has emerged: How do we safely allow AI agents to access sensitive enterprise resources on behalf of users?
How can modern data teams achieve massive scalability, flexibility, and efficiency while avoiding the pitfalls of fragmented data lakes? This session explores Taktile's journey from a complex mix of S3, Glue, and Snowflake to a fully integrated, pythonic Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg, Polaris Catalog, and dlt.
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VectorChord (GitHub Repo)
VectorChord is a PostgreSQL extension designed for scalable, high-performance, and disk-efficient vector similarity search.
Sequin (GitHub Repo)
Sequin is a tool for change data capture in Postgres that supports native sinks, making it easy to stream Postgres rows and changes to streaming platforms and queues.
AI News:
OpenAI and Mattel just announced a new strategic partnership to create AI-powered toys and experiences, bringing the tech to franchise brands like Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl, and more. The collaboration will integrate OpenAI's tech into Mattel's product development, with the first AI-powered product expected later this year.
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ByteDance just released Seedance 1.0, a new video generation model that ranks first on benchmarks for both text-to-video and image-to-video tasks, outperforming SOTA options from Google, Kuaishou, and OpenAI.
A new AI model from DeepMind just beat every traditional hurricane forecasting system in both accuracy and speed, and it only takes one minute to predict storms up to 15 days in advance. Weather Lab, its interactive platform, shows 5-day forecasts with 140 km closer to real storm paths.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled new details about its next-generation AI chips. The Instinct MI400 series will ship next year. They can be assembled into full server racks with thousands of chips. AMD's rack-scale setup will make the chips look to users like one system, which is important for most customers who develop large language models.
The world’s gone mad
— Kalshi (@Kalshi)
8:04 PM • Jun 11, 2025
Prediction market Kalshi aired one of the first instances of an AI-generated commercial during Game 3 of the NBA Finals, running an “unhinged” 30-second spot created with clips created using Google's Veo 3 video model on ABC.
56% of workers say scheduling a meeting is the only way to get information. With Jira, use AI to automatically add work from Slack, create subtasks, or attach relevant resources. So instead of scheduling a meeting, check the status in Jira. Easy.
AI Tutorial
How to create PDFs in Grok
How To Create a PDF in Grok (It’s This Simple)
Go to Grok.com on a desktop browser and log in.
Type the prompt for the content you want in your PDF.
Example: “Write a guide for job seekers on how to use ChatGPT to improve their resumes.”
Once you have a reply, just type “Turn this into a PDF.”
You’ll get a preview of your pdf.
You can ask Grok to make changes, like adding a new section.
You can also click the CODE button at the top to edit the HTML yourself. When you go back to the preview, you’ll see the changes you just made.
Once you’re done, download the PDF.
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