Agents are Key in 2025, Call Centers are Dead, Free Course on Applied AI

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

It’s Wednesday and we’re in the thick of it! BTW, I really appreciate every single reader (make sure to share this newsletter to your friends and colleagues!) and every time I get a few dollars in my piggy bank I am reminded how grateful I am for all of you!

I am also reminded how slowly things can often start and discouraging it can be to grind for days, weeks, months, and years on-end before you get close to the goal. It would be an absolute dream to do this full-time but I’d need > 1,000+ more (paid) subscribers to make that happen. Dreams are dreams until they aren’t.

Let’s keep going and encouraging each other to not quit! Onward!

• Legal tool for discovery and legal cases.

• Are call centers dead?

• Is Amazon’s new Aurora DSQL going to be your new database?

• An open source toolkit for building AI agents.

• MegaParse to parse any document.

• Free and open source Engineering Academy for applied AI.

• AirBnB CEO says AI hasn’t done much.

• Understanding AI agents is one of the most important skills in 2025. Some examples from Greg Isenberg and why vertical agents will be big via YC. But what is an AI agent? Here’s a take.

• 3 charts of what the venture capital world is looking like for deal and exit size as well as overall value (below).

• An infinite canvas to run agents.

• Build your own agents with Foundry.

• Automated marketing audits.

• All-in-one sales automation platform.

• AI built for teachers, by teachers.

• You AI co-host on your podcast.

• AI interviewing copilot.

• AI can cut scams losses, speeds up home loans.

• MIT’s take on moving generative AI into production.

• Gen AI’s bridge to the future.

• Building moats in AI.

• HunyuanVideo is making people lose their minds. And Hailuo too.

• Google launches AI campus in London.

• Zapier Co-Founder on AI agents (video below):

• OCR app via Llama 3.2.

• Conversational medical AI is coming sooner than most can even imagine.

• Deepseek: The leader in China’s AI race (interview with CEO).

• Stock prediction via AI.

• Salesforce CEO has thoughts about the future of AI.

• Great overview of CPU and GPU. Nice.

And that’s it friends! Have a great one!

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— Summer