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Implementing MCP Servers in Python: An AI Shopping Assistant with Gradio

Gradio just leveled up. It now auto-converts plain Python functions intoMCP-compliant LLM tools, grabbing input schemas and metadata straight from docstrings. New tricks:real-time progress streaming,auto file uploads, plus tight integration withVS Code’s AI Chatfor wiring up agent workflows...

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MCP Registry with Azure API Center

Azure just droppedMCP Center, showing off howAzure API Centercan double as a private registry forModel-Centric Protocol (MCP) servers. It’s built for internal use—think secure discovery, tight OAuth 2 auth, centralized control, and AI Gateway rules baked in. Handy when teams need to corral AI tools..

MCP Registry with Azure API Center
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Fueling the Agentic Web Revolution with NLWeb and PostgreSQL

Microsoft just leveled upNLWeb. The open-source project now plays nice withPostgreSQLandpgvector, bringing scalable vector similarity search straight into your database. No need for a separate vector DB—run natural language interfaces right on your existing Postgres stack. System shift:This is more..

Fueling the Agentic Web Revolution with NLWeb and PostgreSQL
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Powering Real-Time AI Applications

Generative AI databases like SingleStore now cramOLTP,OLAP,vector search, andfull-text searchinto one SQL-first platform. Structured, unstructured—it eats both. No ETL. No silos. Just real-time data, ripe for AI models and semantic queries. System shift:Blending transactional and analytic guts in o..

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Google releases AI agent Jules for programming

Google’s AI agentJulesjust leveled up—out of beta and into full-on dev mode. It now handlesasynchronous tasks, pushesreal-time code updates, and can spin up pull requests with deeperGitHub integration. Under the hood: it runs on the beefierGemini 2.5 Promodel. AddsEnvironment Snapshotsfor state cap..

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Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s API Access to Claude, Alleging Violation Ahead of GPT-5 Launch

Anthropic just yanked OpenAI’s API access to Claude. Reason? Alleged violations of terms that forbid using Claude to train rival models—like GPT-5. Windsurf, an OpenAI acquisition target, got the boot earlier too. Spot the pattern: tighten access, box out competitors. System shift:APIs aren’t just ..

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s API Access to Claude, Alleging Violation Ahead of GPT-5 Launch
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Who does your assistant serve?

OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 backfired: instead of excitement, users felt betrayed by a forced upgrade that stripped away the warmth and reliability they had come to rely on in GPT-4o. Many treated the model as more than a tool — a companion, therapist, or emotional support — so when its personality sh..

Who does your assistant serve?
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This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT

Sapient Intelligence’s HRM AI model challenges “bigger is better” in AI with a small 27M parameter design outperforming much larger models on reasoning tasks. The architecture mimics the brain, with a slow “planner” and rapid “worker,” achieving jaw-dropping results on benchmarks...

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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS permanently nuked a 10-year customer account—data, backups, everything—after a payment verification failed. That alone broke their own 90-day retention policy. It gets messier. Looks like an internal script meant to run as a “dry run” went full send in production. Blame a Java CLI parsing edge ..

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
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A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server

GitHub offers a managed MCP endpoint to simplify infrastructure management and streamline AI workflows, enhancing collaboration and code review processes...

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is dedicated to the study of human development, education, and human-machine interaction. Researchers of various disciplines; including psychology, education, sociology, medicine, history, economics, computer science, and mathematics; work together on interdisciplinary projects at the Berlin Institute.

The research questions they examine include how people make effective decisions even under time pressure and information overload, how the school as an institution affects students; development and learning processes, how the interaction between behaviour and brain function changes over a persons lifespan, how human emotions change in a historical context and how they have affected the course of history itself, as well as what social innovations and challenges digitalization brings with it.