🚨 Daily Tech & AI Pulse | 2025-10-23

🌍 Global Tech News

Nvidia-backed Cohere to offer secondary sale of employee shares (link)
🤖 Cohere, backed by Nvidia, plans a secondary sale of employee shares.

Amazon’s new AI shopping tool tells you why you should buy a recommended product (link)
🤖 Amazon unveils an AI shopping tool that explains why users should buy recommended products.

Research finds that 77% of data engineers have heavier workloads despite AI tools: Here's why and what to do about it (link)
🤖 Study reveals 77% of data engineers face heavier workloads despite AI tools, highlighting challenges and solutions.

Redefining data engineering in the age of AI (link)
🤖 MIT Technology Review Insights discusses redefining data engineering in the AI era.

🍁 Canada Tech News

FINTRAC issues record-setting $177 million fine against crypto exchange Cryptomus (link)
🤖 FINTRAC imposes a record $177 million fine on the crypto exchange Cryptomus.

Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business (link)
🤖 Redwood Materials secures $350M in funding to expand its energy storage operations.

Calgary’s Future Summit 2025 looks to drive deals in legacy industries, AI, and infrastructure (link)
🤖 The Future Summit in Calgary aims to foster deals in legacy industries, AI, and infrastructure.

Felix Health raises $53 million in growth financing to get more “aggressive” in telehealth (link)
🤖 Felix Health secures $53 million to expand its telehealth services.

🚀 Startups

Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model (link)
🤖 Sakana AI’s CTO expresses frustration with transformers, the dominant AI model technology.

💡 Top 5 GitHub Repositories

#1: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR (link)
🤖 Description: Contexts Optical Compression
Rich Gist: ⭐ 14,260 stars | 🍴 833 forks | 👀 14,260 watchers | 💻 Python | 📅 Created 6 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 MIT License | 🟢 ActiveDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#2: yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers (link)
🤖 Description: Single powerful tool to convert ANY documentation website into a Claude skill
Rich Gist: ⭐ 1,585 stars | 🍴 146 forks | 👀 1,585 watchers | 💻 Python | 📅 Created 5 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 MIT License | 🟢 Active | 🏷️ ai-tools, automation, claude-aiDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#3: BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills (link)
🤖 Description: A curated list of Claude Skills.
Rich Gist: ⭐ 1,413 stars | 🍴 98 forks | 👀 1,413 watchers | 📄 No language detected | 📅 Created 5 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 No license | 🟢 ActiveDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#4: anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime (link)
🤖 Description: A lightweight sandboxing tool for enforcing filesystem and network restrictions on arbitrary processes at the OS level, without requiring a container.
Rich Gist: ⭐ 898 stars | 🍴 43 forks | 👀 898 watchers | 💻 TypeScript | 📅 Created 3 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 Apache License 2.0 | 🟢 ActiveDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#5: deta/surf (link)
🤖 Description: Personal AI Notebooks. Organize files & webpages and generate notes from them. Open source, local & open data, open model choice (incl. local).
Rich Gist: ⭐ 686 stars | 🍴 41 forks | 👀 686 watchers | 💻 TypeScript | 📅 Created 2 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 Apache License 2.0 | 🟢 Active | 🏷️ claude, deepseek, gemmaDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

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