OpenAI Just Made Analytics 10x Cheaper

Since OpenAI slashed the price of GPT 5.6 Luna by 80% this week, low latency AI-powered answers are finally feasible for less than half a penny per answer, AI and DB costs included. For data questio...

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A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age

This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away.

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Mapping the rising cost of goods and services for U.S. consumers

A landscape of year-over-year price changes, without the cherrypicking.

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Moonshot’s Kimi Built on 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba

Chinese AI champion Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for the use of around 20,000 Nvidia Corp. chips, underscoring China’s continued reliance on Western semicon...

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The C-Suite Is Uncertain About AI Again & That's Your Opening

Three earnings calls with three CEOs who compete with each other on almost everything, but they are all saying the same things about the path to profitability for AI and agents.

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Research: How AI Agents Broaden the Scope of Knowledge Work

AI agents don’t just speed up knowledge work; they change its nature. In a field study of Perplexity’s conversational assistant and autonomous agent, researchers found that not only did the agent perf...

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Anthropic is telling you that Agentic Analytics is not just text-to-SQL

Anthropic’s Agentic Analytics suite using Claude achieves 95% accuracy and they share how in their latest post. Trustworthy analytics is…

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Why the Smartest Executives I Know Don't Take the Highest Offer

What the people who play this game over decades pick instead—and what they pay attention to that the rest miss.

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The Token Paradox: Why Cheaper Compute Produces Bigger Bills

Optimising the second variable with foundational architectural shifts

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The Three Laws of AI Governance: When AI Agents Must Be Held Accountable Like Humans

Longest-running, most battle-tested distributed governance systems humanity has for coordinating agents

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Pinner Progression: Better Use-Case Representation Driving Weekly Active User Growth at Pinterest

Part 1 of 2

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So, you want to be a content creator?

This has been my journey, with all the good and the bad that came with it.

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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng in His Own Words: 64 Quotes from DeepSeek's Investor Call

Key takeaways:

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Inside PM at Stripe: What Comes After "Become a Builder"?

Kevin Yien on the judgment, opinions, and systems the PM job demands now.

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Qwen Studio

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

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Why a sabbatical can change everything

How to take Big Time Off

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How to Run Claude Code Agents for 24+ Hours | Towards Data Science

Apply long-running coding agents to become a more productive engineer

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Do Not Waste the Next 12 Months Building an Audience

7 Distribution Channels That Don’t Need a Single Follower

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The real reason you think of the perfect thing to say an hour too late

You know the feeling. You're in a meeting, someone says something, and the perfect reply, the clever line, the joke that would had everyone laughing and crying, arrives in your head at exactly the wro...

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Your Data Warehouse Isn’t Integrated Just Because the Tables Are in One Place

Centralization is not integration!

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How to Tell a Data Story When Your Audience Is Hostile | Rogue Penguin

Most advice about data storytelling assumes a receptive audience. But that's not always the room you're in. Here's what helps when it isn't.

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The Rosetta Stone For Business’s AI Failure Is Rewriting Every Job in Tech

I am going to give you a superpower that I have held back for almost a decade.

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Control the ideas, not the code - <antirez>

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How Expedia Group Builds AI That Lasts at Scale

A framework for how we build, deploy, and evolve AI systems for impact and scale

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What is “loop engineering?”

There’s talk about loop engineering, but what is it exactly? I looked into it, and found triggers, cron jobs, AI slop & more. Is it a “here today, gone tomorrow” trend?

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Turn new data into Quarto reports automatically

The {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating parameterized Quarto reports.

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How I’m Making Sure My Analytics Career Doesn’t Get Eaten by AI | Towards Data Science

The analytics career I signed up for five years ago doesn't exist anymore, and honestly, I am fine with that.

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The Great AI Comparison Crisis Is Here

You're not behind (the numbers say so) + what you've missed in AI this month

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The Context Moat Is Real, But Most Enterprises Don't Have One Yet

Nadella, Benioff, and Karp just told you to protect your knowledge. None of them mentioned that you have to manufacture it first.

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The Forgotten Measure of Data Quality: Decision Quality

The Decision-First Metric: Defining the True Value of Data

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