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🤖 RAG Pipelines in Production
🦾Plus: Apple glasses roadmap 👓, ChatGPT hits 1B users 📈
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📊40 Best Data Visualization Tools and Software list for 2025
🔗n8n Just Released Native MCP Nodes
⚙️Kafka 4.0: KRaft Simplifies Architecture
📚Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained
🙅 Ex-OpenAI staff push back on for-profit shift
💰 Ilya’s SSI raises $2B at $32B valuation
🔍Netflix is testing a new OpenAI-powered search
💡 AI Tutorial:Turn YouTube videos into high-ranking blogs
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Pipelines play a central role in deploying software, as they facilitate the automation and orchestration of several tasks in production environments, guaranteeing smooth data and process flows. In the context of advanced systems, like retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications, pipelines in production attain even more significance. They are crucial in maintaining reasonable levels of efficiency, scalability, consistency among components, and reliability while managing complex workflows.
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.
Data visualizations are everywhere today. From creating a visual representation of data points to impress potential investors, report on progress, or even visualize concepts for customer segments, data visualizations are a valuable tool in a variety of settings.
Automation platform n8n has just integrated native Model Context Protocol capabilities directly into its core. You can now use two new nodes: an MCP Server Trigger and an MCP Client Tool. These nodes turn n8n into an MCP server for MCP clients like the Claude desktop app or Cursor to access your workflows as tools, or connect your n8n agents to external MCP servers.
Apache Kafka has reached a significant milestone with the release of version 4.0, a major update that introduces a host of new features and improvements, most notably the default operation in KRaft mode, which, according to Confluent's documentation, eliminates the dependency on Apache ZooKeeper.
This blog post is about something that I find incredibly powerful and transformative: the Model Context Protocol (MCP). After exploring various AI integration approaches, I've written this post to make MCP easy to understand for everyone.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Datastar (GitHub Repo)
Datastar uses the simplicity of server-side rendering and the power of a full-stack SPA framework to build reactive web applications. It is only 14.5 KB but it can provide the functionality of both Alpine.j and htmx.
HelixDB (GitHub Repo)
HelixDB is a powerful, graph-vector database built in Rust for millisecond query latency and ease of use.
AI News:
Altman made the revelation on stage during a discussion with TED curator Chris Anderson on Friday, but exactly how many users ChatGPT now has isn’t entirely clear. The number could be 800 million or 1 billion, depending on how you take Altman’s comments.
Around $6.8 trillion dollars in value has been wiped from U.S. stocks, as Wall Street is reportedly already reacting to a new era of trade wars. But as stocks slip and inflation worries reignite, one asset class may remain uncorrelated: fine art.
Unlike equities, contemporary art has near-zero correlation to stocks. In fact, Masterworks data shows it has outpaced the S&P 500 by 32% since 1995, making it a go-to hedge for a slice of savvy investor portfolios.
Masterworks’ platform allows everyday investors to invest in shares of multimillion-dollar artwork offerings featuring artists like Picasso and Basquiat. With 23 exits across their 450+ offerings—all profitable—it’s clear why investors are flocking to art.
Twelve former OpenAI employees, who served in technical and leadership roles between 2018 and 2024, just filed a proposed amicus brief supporting Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging the AI lab's shift away from its nonprofit origins.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, just reportedly raised $2 billion at a post-money valuation of $32 billion, becoming one of the highest-valued startups just months after launch. The $2B round has been led by Greenoaks (with $500M), with Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz in participation, FT reported.
Apple is developing two new Vision Pro headsets despite glasses being a bigger goal in the long run. The company is also preparing to overhaul iPadOS to make its tablets more like Macs. iPhones made in China have been exempted from tariffs.
Netflix is starting to test search that’s powered by OpenAI, according to Bloomberg.The new search engine will let users “look for shows using far more specific terms, including the subscriber’s mood, for example, the company said,” per the report. This OpenAI-powered search will also allow users to make queries that “go well beyond genres or actors’ names.”
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.
AI Tutorial
📝 Turn YouTube videos into high-ranking blogs
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use NotebookLM to turn YouTube video content into SEO-optimized blog posts by analyzing transcripts and generating structured, search engine-targeted content.
Step-by-step:
Create a notebook in NotebookLM and add your YouTube video transcript as a source via YouTube link or pasted text.
Prepare your SEO strategy by identifying primary and secondary keywords (e.g., for AI automation: "AI workflow tools," "business process automation").
Craft a detailed prompt including your keywords and desired structure, then generate your content.
Enhance your post with images, links, formatting, and a compelling call-to-action before publishing.
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🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Trolly AI: Revolutionizing SEO Content Creation with Advanced AI Technology.
pre.dev accelerates idea to development.
AskGPT extension enhances web browsers by providing AI-powered summaries and insights directly on web pages.
Editby - Create content for your blog, newspaper, newsletter, press notes, social networks etc. with AI.
Data Analyst AI connects Google Analytics with ChatGPT, delivering AI-powered eCommerce insights and automated weekly reports.
Videotok - Create viral TikToks and Reels from text to Video with AI
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