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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
š Top 10 Free And Open Source Business Intelligence Software!
ā”Manus AI is now 4x faster and 15% better across tasks
šLearn to scan research papers fast without losing depth
š§ Simon Willisonās take on how Claude Skills change agent design
š¤How Sam Altman Played Hollywood
š¤ Unitree unviels H2 humanoid robot
š” AI Tutorial:How to give your marketing team superpowers with AI agents
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Vector databases have become essential in most modern AI applications. If youāve built anything with embeddings ā semantic search, recommendation engines, RAG systems ā youāve likely hit the wall where traditional databases donāt quite suffice.
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This data and the subsequent information is becoming essential for the businesses to plan their future development and marketing strategies. That is why the use of Open-Source Business Intelligence software is becoming the need of time.

Manus AI just dropped their v1.5, built on a re-architected engine that makes everything faster and more reliable. Manus 1.5 is now overall 4x faster and 15% better across tasks. Another major enhancement in this release is full-stack web application development. Manus can create full-stack applications with persistent backends, databases, user authentication, and embedded AI capabilities with just simple prompts.

The guide shows how to quickly scan research papers: start with intuition, check evidence, and dive into details selectively. Speed builds research taste, avoids wasted time, and reveals broad patterns.

The blog frames Skills as a shift in agent design. Instead of relying on constant tool calls, Claude can selectively extend itself with well-scoped, reusable capabilities for complex tasks.
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docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
pg_embedding
Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.
dt
duct tape for your unix pipes.
AI News:

Former OpenAI and Tesla researcher Andrej Karpathy threw cold water on the AI agent hype during an interview with Dwarkesh Patel, projecting a decade-long timeline before autonomous AI systems can deliver on current promises. Karpathy believes industry messaging is overselling current agentic coding capabilities that output āslop,ā saying the models āarenāt there yet.ā
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OpenAI made a series of calculated moves when it released Sora. The app initially had an opt-out clause for people's likenesses to be used in clips. This caused a flood of clips using copyrighted material to be created. The company then quickly pivoted to an opt-in model. This could cause legal trouble for OpenAI in the near future.

Unitree has unveiled H2, its new flagship humanoid robot, standing 180 cm tall, weighing 70 kg, and equipped with a human-like face. Early demo footage shows the robot performing dance and martial arts routines with impressively smooth motion, precise joint control, and improved stability.
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Google just plugged Gemini into Maps, giving its AI direct access to real-world location data and letting developers tap the company's massive geographic intelligence trove. The capability pulls from Googleās 250M venues worldwide, feeding Gemini current business hours, customer ratings, and venue specifics via API calls.

The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed an 8% decline in human visits after refining its bot detection systems. The drop highlights a shift in how people access knowledge: many now get information directly from AI search summaries or platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
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AskGPT extension enhances web browsers by providing AI-powered summaries and insights directly on web pages.
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