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🔁 Apache Kafka Architecture
🦾Plus: 🖼️ ChatGPT Adds "Smell Effect" to Images
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🤖AI Companies Turning Visual Data into Big Insights
🧪Real Bench: A New Standard for Web AI Agent Evaluation
🐍Python's new t-strings
⚡FastAPI-MCP: Simplifying the Integration of FastAPI with AI Agents
🧭 Anthropic charts Claude's values
🖼️ ChatGPT Adds "Smell Effect" to Images
💡 AI Tutorial: How to run AI privately on your own computer
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Apache Kafka is a powerful distributed stream processing platform originally developed by LinkedIn, written in Scala and Java. In this article, I walk through the foundational concepts, design and architecture, concluding with hands-on coding examples using Node.js and the KafkaJS library.
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Many visual content, including photos, movies, scans, streams, and more, is generated and exchanged every second. From surveillance cameras to cell phones to satellite photographs, the world generates more visual data than ever. But there’s a problem, and it’s not gathering the data; it is making sense of everything. In this article, we’ll look at how visual data is transformed into useful information, and which organizations are leading the way.
AGI SDK is a comprehensive toolkit for building and evaluating AI agents that interact with the web. Released by AGI Inc., it includes the REAL benchmark (Realistic Evaluations for Agents Leaderboard) - a fully-functional "mini-Internet" with high-fidelity clones of popular websites.
Python 3.14, which will ship in late 2025, will contain a feature called template strings (t-strings) that opens the door to safer and more flexible string processing in Python. f-strings have become a very popular way to format strings and are being used for everything - even when they shouldn't. t-strings are a generalization of f-strings that must be processed before they can be used.
A new open-source library, FastAPI-MCP, is making it easier for developers to connect traditional FastAPI applications with modern AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Designed for zero-configuration setup, FastAPI-MCP allows developers to automatically expose their API endpoints as MCP-compatible tools, effectively making web services accessible to AI systems with minimal modification.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Piko (GitHub Repo)
Piko is a reverse proxy to connect to external networks. It can be used to expose services in a customer network, as a bring-your-own-cloud service, or to connect to IoT devices.
Image Deraining (GitHub Repo)
ESDNet is a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) designed for image deraining tasks. It capitalizes on the unique properties of rain pixel values to enhance spike signal intensity.
AI News:
Now that the US is halting the sale of Nvidia’s H20 chips (the ones specially designed to be less powerful, just to meet US export regulations), China’s Huawei is rushing to fill the gap. It just unveiled a new Ascend 920 chip, which could help companies like DeepSeek and Alibaba forge ahead despite the US crackdown
Did you know that the World Wide Web was born in Geneva, Switzerland? Indeed, the first version of the Internet cropped up at CERN in 1989. Today the world-renowned center is home to the largest particle accelerator and to the CERN Science Gateway – a must-see hub for science enthusiasts that features hands-on exhibits, immersive virtual reality experiences, and live demonstrations.
Anthropic just published a study analyzing hundreds of thousands of real AI conversations to understand how models like Claude make moral judgements — building the first large‑scale map of the model's values in day‑to‑day interactions. Researchers analyzed over 300,000 real (but anonymous) conversations to find and categorize 3,307 unique values expressed by the AI.
The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans to become the first nation to integrate AI directly into its lawmaking process, establishing a new government unit to oversee the transformation of how laws are written, reviewed, and updated.
Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis was interviewed on 60 Minutes, where he provided insights into AGI timeline, progress, and AI’s potential in medicine, while demoing DeepMind’s “Project Astra” assistant. Hassabis said AI-driven drug discovery could compress medical timelines from years to weeks, potentially eliminating all disease within a decade.
ChatGPT is sparking a web storm now by creating images with a "smell effect", activating a real sensation of smell even though it’s just an image. Here's how it works.
Most hearing aids have one processor. These bad boys have two. They process speech and noise separately. What does this mean? It means speech gets clearer and crisper – more than ever before. Conversations and listening become effortless. Oh, and they’re so tiny, they’re practically invisible. No wonder over 425,000 customers love them.
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🤖 How to run AI privately on your own computer
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Step-by-step:
Choose your platform by downloading Ollama or LM Studio based on your command-line or GUI interface preference.
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Download an AI model that's suitable for your computer
Start chatting with your AI using terminal commands in Ollama or the chat interface in LM Studio.
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