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Report: Fivetran in talks with dbt Labs over multibillion-dollar big-data merger   https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/28/report-fivetran-talks-dbt-labs-multibillion-dollar-big-data-merger/ Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades   https://www.theverge.com/news/787046/apples-veritas-siri-ai-chatbot OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping sy...

Bigger and Better Worlds — World Labs   https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/bigger-better-worlds AI as teleportation — Geoffrey Litt   https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/09/10/ai-as-teleportation.html Introducing Shuttle Cobra — Shuttle   https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/18/introducing-shuttle-cobra Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper — Nature   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mistralai_mistral-ai-raises-17b-to-accelerate-technological-activity-7371045632284971008-KOtm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUumq8B49UW7m9VV5...

Nano Banana — https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/ China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. — https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for-ai-it-might-be-smarter-581f1e44 Bear is now source-available — https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/ A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry — https://blog.cloudflar...

Thanks for listening! ❤️ Chapters (01:55) - MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing (08:14) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (14:22) - DeepSeek-V3.1 Release (18:55) - Build vs Buy in the Age of AI (27:02) - Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year (34:38) - Mirage: AI UGC game engine (39:58) -...

Thanks again for listening! Follow us on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Discussed news articles GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation — The Verge (Aug 11, 2025) Thomas Dohmke steps down; GitHub leadership folds more tightly into Microsoft’s CoreAI org. https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition FF...

Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe! The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble | Where’s Your Ed At Technology writer Ed Zitron tears apart what he calls the overhyped generative-AI gold rush, warning it’s propped up by wishful thinking and unsustainable spending. As he bluntly puts it, “We’re in a god damn bubble,” prompting a no-holds-barred discussion on whether the boom...

Thanks for listening—subscribe and leave a review! Announcing molab (marimo) Marimo debuts molab , a free, cloud‑hosted workspace for running and sharing reactive Python + SQL notebooks straight from the browser. https://marimo.io/blog/announcing-molab OpenAI LLM Claims IMO Gold Researcher Alexander Wei says an experimental OpenAI model solved 5 of 6 problems from the 2025 International Math Olymp...

Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe! MCP-B – Browser Model Context Protocol | mcp-b.ai MCP-B proposes a “USB-C for AI,” letting agents call site functions instead of clumsy click-automation. “MCP-B gives AI direct access to your website's functions instead,” promising smoother bot-to-web handshakes for everyone.   https://mcp-b.ai/ OpenAI’s next big launch could be an...

Thanks for listening! Subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcasts. Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec — Hacker News Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant AI patches, aiming to replace sluggish full-file rewrites with surgical edits. They boast, “We’ve built a blazing-fast model for applying AI-generated code edits directly into your files at 4,500+ to...

Thanks for listening, leave a review! ❤️ The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering | Phil Schmid Blog (Jun 30 2025) Phil Schmid argues that the real differentiator in modern AI work is “context engineering,” the discipline of assembling the right information, tools and format around an LLM rather than obsessing over single-string prompts. He quotes Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, who ca...

Thanks for listening! Make sure to leave a review ❤️ Serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit | GitHub Serena presents itself as a full-featured coding agent that melds semantic code search, automated editing and shell execution to streamline developer workflows. “Serena combines tools for semantic code retrieval with editing capabilities and shell execution.” 🔗 https://github.com/oraios/serena Nx...

Welcome to The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech — where we keep it real, techy, and far from buzzword bingo. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts, or visit us at monkeypatching.io 🧠 Episode Topics & Links Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task New arXiv research shows relying on ChatGPT dulls...

Welcome to Episode 2! We'd love to hear your feedback ❤️  DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format | DuckDB Blog (May 27 2025) DuckDB’s new DuckLake format proposes shifting all lakehouse metadata into a regular SQL database so open-format data lakes can gain true transactional speed and simplicity. “DuckLake re-imagines what a ‘Lakehouse’ format should look like,” the authors write, arguing it elimina...

Hey there! Welcome to the very first Monkey Patching Podcast. We're just kicking things off today, chatting about what we've got planned for this show – nothing too mind-blowing yet, but we're excited to get rolling. If you're into data and AI talk without all the buzzword fluff, hit subscribe and join us for the ride. Trust us, it gets better from here. Ow yeah... while we said that we would star...