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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
āļøGreen Cloud Computing ā The Sustainable Way to Use the Cloud
šAn Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
šA Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products
šMigrating a large codebase to Polars
š» Wikipedia gives away data to AI developers
šŗ Watch Sam Altman at TED 2025
šChatGPT memory now personalizes web searches
š One AI Premium plan offered free to US students
š” AI Tutorial:Turn your Google Sheets into a website with no-code
š¤ AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Most contemporary generative models of images, sound and video do not operate directly on pixels or waveforms. They consist of two stages: first, a compact, higher-level latent representation is extracted, and then an iterative generative process operates on this representation instead. How does this work, and why is this approach so popular?
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 ā a must-see hub for science enthusiasts that features hands-on exhibits, immersive virtual reality experiences, and live demonstrations.
Energy-efficient solutions are necessary to minimize the impact of cloud computing on the environment. Green cloud computing, also known as green information technology, is a potential solution to aide in the reduction of energy consumption.
This post is about stochastic calculus, an extension of regular calculus to stochastic processes. It's not immediately obvious but the rigour needed to properly understand some of the key ideas requires going back to the measure theoretic definition of probability theory, so that's where I start in the background.
In this post, Iāll show you exactly how these successful teams operate. While every situation is unique, youāll see patterns that apply regardless of your domain or team size. Letās start by examining the most common mistake I see teams make: one that derails AI projects before they even beginā¦
In this community talk, Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp share their experiences and best practices for migrating a large pandas codebase to Polars at one of the largest utility companies in the Netherlands. By implementing Polars, they achieved a 98% cost reduction. Watch the video to learn how you can start migrating your own codebase.
HubSpotās AI-powered ecosystem presents a global opportunity projected to reach $10.2 billion by 2028. To capitalize on that growth potential, we are opening our platform more, starting with expanded APIs, customizable app UI, and tools that better support a unified data strategy.
šØāš» Data Tools, Libraries
migrate-ai
A CLI tool designed to assist in migrating code from various frameworks and languages, such as Vue 2 to Vue 3 or JavaScript to TypeScript. It uses OpenAI to help perform these migrations and includes features for formatting code and managing configurations.
lsp-ai
An open-source language server that serves as a backend for AI-powered functionality, designed to assist and empower software engineers, not replace them.
Omakub
Opinionated Ubuntu Setup.
AI News:
As part of Ai2ās commitment to openness, and to empower open exploration of these questions, today we release DataDecideāa suite of models we pretrain on 25 corpora with differing sources, deduplication, and filtering up to 100B tokens, over 14 different model sizes ranging from 4M parameters up to 1B parameters (more than 30k model checkpoints in total).
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 ā more than ever before. Conversations and listening become effortless. Oh, and theyāre so tiny, theyāre practically invisible. No wonder over 425,000 customers love them.
Wikipedia is trying to reduce the strain caused by AI bots scraping its content by releasing a machine-learning-friendly dataset in partnership with Kaggle. This new beta dataset, available in English and French, offers structured, machine-readable Wikipedia contentāsuch as summaries, infoboxes, and article sections (excluding references and media files)āand is openly licensed.
OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPTās āmemoryā again. In a changelog and support pages on OpenAIās website Thursday, the company quietly announced āMemory with Search,ā a feature that lets ChatGPT draw on memories ā details from past conversations, such as your favorite foods ā to inform queries when the bot searches the web.
Google is offering US college students free access to its $20/month One AI Premium plan until June 30, 2026. The plan includes 2TB cloud storage and tools like Gemini Advanced (powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro), NotebookLM Plus, the Veo 2 text-to-video model, and Whisk for mixed media prompts. Students must register with a .edu email by June 30, 2025.
At TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the companyās explosive growth to 800 million weekly users, the infrastructure challenges caused by high demand, and the growing scrutiny surrounding AIās societal impact. He acknowledged OpenAIās evolution from a nonprofit to a $300 billion tech giant and addressed criticisms about power consolidation and safety risks, especially with autonomous AI agents.
Through Squarespaceās cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brandās goals, name, and personality. Itās AI speed, with Squarespaceās 20+ years of design expertise in website building.
AI Tutorial
Turn your Google Sheets into a website with no-code
Create a Google Sheet and fill it with your content: names, descriptions, prices, etc.
Go to the SpreadSimple website and sign in.
In the dashboard, click the + button.
Copy your Google Sheet link and paste it into the designated field.
*Note: Make sure your Google Sheet is set to public view so that SpreadSimple can access it to read and display the data.
Click Continue, and within a few moments, a website will be created for you.
You can now customize the design, the content representation, change the domain and other settings.
This guide is your go-to resource for streamlining payments, improving cash flow, and keeping your business running smoothly.
Whatās inside:
āļø An actionable 8-step framework to create a seamless payment process
āļø Expert strategies to reduce late payments and enhance your professional image
A well-structured payment system leads to smoother operations, happier clients, and long-term financial success.
š„Top AI tools to increase productivity:
DOO: The leap in your teamās evolution. With DOO, your team doesnāt just grow in numbers but in capabilities too
Interview Solver is an AI Copilot that helps you pass your live coding and system design interviews.
Language Atlas is a freemium platform where people can learn languages with AI
BlogFox is an AI-powered blogging tool that simplifies the creation of high-quality, SEO-optimized content.
ProJourney allows you to use Midjourney without having to go through Discord.
Moemate is an AI Studio which lets anyone create and chat with AI characters
View our database of all the best AI tools for your needs: aitoolsup.com
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