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#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #MLOps
 
 
📝 The Opening Call
 
 
Balancing byte-size breakthroughs and deep dives, this issue uncorks efficiency tips and defense tools like never before. From Google's innovative SecOps runbooks to edge computing's frontier feats, we're mining the mindset shifts poised to reshape your dev arsenal.


🔗 Agentic Coding Recommendations

🛡️ AI Runbooks for Google SecOps

⚙️ Automate Models Training with Tekton and Buildpacks

📊 BenchmarkQED for RAG systems

💬 Chat with your AWS Bill

🌐 GenAI Meets SLMs: A New Era for Edge Computing

🍴 God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro

🤝 Meta reportedly in talks to invest billions in Scale AI

🤖 Modern Test Automation with AI(LLM) and Playwright

👥 What execs want to know about multi-agentic systems


Read. Think. Deploy. Dance with disruption while the world catches up.
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ℹ️ News, Updates & Announcements
 
openai.com openai.com
 
Disrupting malicious uses of AI: June 2025
 
 
OpenAI's June 2025 report, "Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI," is out. It highlights various cases where AI tools were exploited for deceptive activities, including social engineering, cyber espionage, and influence operations.
 
 
latent.space latent.space
 
God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro
 
 
OpenAI just took an axe to o3 pricing—down 80%. Enter o3-pro with its $20/$80 show. They boast a star-studded 64% win rate against o3. Forget Opus; o3-pro nails picking the right tools and reading the room, flipping task-specific LLM apps on their heads.
 
 
marktechpost.com marktechpost.com
 
Meta Introduces LlamaRL: A Scalable PyTorch-Based Reinforcement Learning RL Framework for Efficient LLM Training at Scale
 
 
Reinforcement Learning fine-tunes large language models for better performance by adapting outputs based on structured feedback. Scaling RL for LLMs faces resource challenges due to massive computation, model sizes, and engineering problems like GPU idle time. Meta's LlamaRL is a PyTorch-based asynchronous framework that offloads generation, optimizes memory use, and achieves significant speedups in training massive LLMs. Speedups up to 10.7x on 405B parameter models demonstrate LlamaRL's ability to address memory constraints, communication delays, and GPU inefficiencies in the training process.
 
 
openai.com openai.com
 
How we’re responding to The New York Times’ data demands in order to protect user privacy
 
 
OpenAI is challenging a court order stemming from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit, which mandates the indefinite retention of user data from ChatGPT and API services. OpenAI contends this requirement violates user privacy commitments and sets a concerning precedent. While the company complies with the order under legal obligation, it has appealed the decision to uphold its privacy standards. Notably, the order excludes ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu customers, and API users with Zero Data Retention agreements
 
 
techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
 
Meta reportedly in talks to invest billions of dollars in Scale AI
 
 
Meta wants a piece of the $10 billion pie at Scale AI, diving headfirst into the largest private AI funding circus yet. Scale AI's revenue? Projected to rocket from last year’s $870M to $2 billion this year, thanks to some beefy partnerships and serious AI model boot camps.
 
 
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medium.com medium.com
 
The End of Static AI: How Self-Evolving Meta-Agents Will Reshape Work Forever
 
 
Meta-agent architecture unleashes AI agents to craft, sharpen, and supercharge other agents—leaving static models in the dust. Amazingly, within a mere 60 seconds, one agent slashes response times by 40% and boosts accuracy by 23%. The kicker? It keeps learning from real data—no human nudges needed.
 
 
microsoft.com microsoft.com
 
BenchmarkQED: Automated benchmarking of RAG systems
 
 
BenchmarkQED takes RAG benchmarking to another level. Imagine LazyGraphRAG smashing through competition—even when wielding a hefty 1M-token context. The only hitch? It occasionally stumbles on direct relevance for local queries. But fear not, AutoQ is in its corner, crafting a smorgasbord of synthetic queries that hammer out consistent, fair RAG assessments, shrugging off dataset quirks like a seasoned pro.
 
 
medium.com medium.com
 
AI Runbooks for Google SecOps: Security Operations with Model Context Protocol
 
 
Google's MCP servers arm SecOps teams with direct control of security tools using LLMs. Now, analysts can skip the fluff and get straight to work—no middleman needed. The system ties runbooks to live data, offering automated, role-specific security measures. The result? A fusion of top-tier protocols with AI precision, making the security scene a little less chaotic and a lot more effective.
 
 
lucumr.pocoo.org lucumr.pocoo.org
 
Agentic Coding Recommendations
 
 
Claude Code at $100/month smirks at the spendy Opus. It excels at spinning tasks with the nimble Sonnet model. When it comes to backend projects, lean into Go. It sidesteps Python's pitfalls—clearer to LLMs, rooted context, and less chaos in its ecosystem. Steer clear of pointless upgrades. Those tempting agent upgrade paths? They often end in a technological mess.
 
 
docker.com docker.com
 
Publishing AI models to Hub
 
 
Docker Model Runner struts out with new tricks: tag, push, and package commands. Want to pass around AI models like they're hot potatoes? Now you can. They're OCI artifacts now, slotting smoothly into your workflow like it was always meant to be.
 
 
kailash-pathak.medium.com kailash-pathak.medium.com
 
Modern Test Automation with AI(LLM) and Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol)
 
 
GenAI and Playwright MCP are shaking up test automation. Think natural language scripts and real-time adaptability, kicking flaky tests to the curb. But watch your step: security risks lurk, server juggling causes headaches, and dynamic UIs refuse to play nice.
 
 
thenewstack.io thenewstack.io
 
GenAI Meets SLMs: A New Era for Edge Computing
 
 
SLMs power up edge computing with speed and privacy finesse. They master real-time decisions and steal the spotlight in cramped settings like telemedicine and smart cities. On personal devices, they outdo LLMs—trimming the fat with model distillation and quantization. Equipped with ONNX and MediaPipe, they're cross-platform prodigies. Federated learning? Keeps data secure and regulators grinning. Across industries like healthcare and fintech, SLMs crank up security, amp analytics, and groove through multiple languages without gobbling resources.
 
 
jarbon.medium.com jarbon.medium.com
 
The AI 4-Shot Testing Flow
 
 
4-Shot Testing Flow fuses AI's lightning-fast knack for spotting issues with the human knack for sniffing out those sneaky, context-heavy bugs. Trim QA time and expenses. While AI tears through broad test execution, human testers sharpen the lens, snagging false positives/negatives before they slip through—ideal even for scrappy startups.
 
 
towardsdatascience.com towardsdatascience.com
 
Automate Models Training: An MLOps Pipeline with Tekton and Buildpacks
 
 
Tekton plus Buildpacks: your secret weapon for training GPT-2 without Dockerfile headaches. They wrap your code in containers, ensuring both security and performance. Tekton Pipelines lean on Kubernetes tasks to deliver isolation and reproducibility. Together, they transform CI/CD for ML into something almost magical—no sleight of hand required.
 
 
docs.hatchet.run docs.hatchet.run
 
Why Go is a good fit for agents
 
 
Go rules the realm of long-lived, concurrent agent tasks. Its lightning-fast goroutines and petite memory use make Node.js and Python look like clunky dinosaurs trudging through thick mud. And don't get started on its cancellation mechanism—seamless cancelation, zero drama.
 
 
community.aws community.aws
 
Chat with your AWS Bill
 
 
Chat up your AWS bill using Amazon Q CLI. Get savvy cost optimization tips and let MCP untangle tricky questions—like how much your EBS storage is bleeding you dry.
 
 
cyberark.com cyberark.com
 
Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe
 
 
Anthropic's MCP makes LLMs groove with real-world tools but leaves the backdoor wide open for mischief. Full-Schema Poisoning (FSP) waltzes across schema fields like it owns the place. ATPA sneaks in by twisting tool outputs, throwing off detection like a pro magicians’ misdirection. Keep your eye on the ball with vigilant monitoring and lean on zero-trust models.
 
 
cloud.google.com cloud.google.com
 
What execs want to know about multi-agentic systems with AI
 
 
Lack of resources kills agent teamwork in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS); clear roles and protocols rule the roost—plus a dash of rigorous testing and good AI behavior. Ignore bias, and your MAS could accidentally nudge e-commerce into the murky waters of socio-economic unfairness. Cue reputation hits and half a year repairing the mess.
 
 
heemeng.medium.com heemeng.medium.com
 
Vibe coding web frontend tests — from mocked to actual tests
 
 
Cursor wrestled with flaky tests, tangled in its over-reliance on XPath. A shift to data-testid finally tamed the chaos. Though it tackled some UI tests, expired API tokens and timestamped transactions revealed its Achilles' heel.
 
 

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github.com github.com
 
going-doer/Paper2Code
 
 
Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers in Machine Learning
 
 
github.com github.com
 
AsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open: Open Source DeepWiki
 
 
AI-Powered Wiki Generator for /Gitlab/Bitbucket Repositories.
 
 
github.com github.com
 
PhialsBasement/Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts
 
 
CoRT makes AI models recursively think about their responses, generate alternatives, and pick the best one. It's like giving the AI the ability to doubt itself and try again... and again... and again.
 
 
github.com github.com
 
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Did you know that Pinterest migrated their ETL backbone from Amazon EMR to a custom Spark-on-Kubernetes platform called Moka, running on AWS EKS? This shift enabled them to gain better control over job scheduling and resource allocation, using Apache YuniKorn for fine-grained, hierarchical scheduling. While they haven’t published exact performance figures, Pinterest reported improvements in system availability, hardware cost efficiency, and operational capabilities—empowering them to support the data needs of over 400 million users with greater flexibility.
 
 
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