TIL Anthropic has the highest employee retention rate of the big labs

There’s a kind of electricity in the group of speakers and attendees swyx and team curated at this AI Engineer Summit, like 2012-2014 DevOps or AWS Summits - a small but passionate, highly technical crowd living at the edge of commercial technological advancement. 💜 I’ve

absolutely packed rooms for the @aidotengineer workshops from morning til evening, on a saturday nyc ai engineers are very much here

"MCP will be the foundational protocol for agents" — Mahesh Murag single hottest topic in agents rn is MCP, so I gave Anthropic our biggest room and longest time block to talk about it and they still filled up what i love about having workshop day is that presenters can pause

biggest surprise exploring MCP vs competitors is the finding that MCP is on track to overtake OpenAPI by *July* (gaining 150 stars per day vs 30k stars)

Introducing YouTube video 🎥 link support in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. You can now directly pass in a YouTube video and the model can usage its native video understanding capabilities to use that, with just a link! 🚢

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

Everyone is talking about MCP.  I summarized all the MCP announcements/launches from Composio, Firecrawl, Cursor, Jira, Langchain, Firebase, and more  Send to your engineering team (save for later)

Stop over-engineering agents Rahul Sengottuvelu started an AI Agent company in 2021, acquired by Ramp where he's now head of Applied AI. In this talk, he presents alternative ideas for scaffolding agents, arguing systems that scale with compute beat systems that don't. YT

Not sure what to do after #javaone in the #sanfrancisco bay area? Come to the jUnconference hosted by SFJUG for discussion, social / networking time, and the pub afterward! 1:00-6:00pm in downtown SF: meetup.com/sfjava/events/… #java #jug #meetup #unconference

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A collection of awesome MCP servers for AI Agents:

What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings? I spent $250 in Kling credits and 9 hours re-editing the Fellowship trailer to bring that vision to life—and I’ll show you exactly how I did it 👇🏼

We just had one of the biggest days in AI. -Deepseek-V3 -Google Gemini 2.5 -GPT-4o image generation -Zapier MCP protocol -H&M AI clones -China’s AI training breakthrough -AI cancer detections breakthrough Here's EVERYTHING you need to know:

7. Zapier introduced its MCP protocol. It allows AI assistants to interact with 8,000+ apps (no complex API integrations needed).

11. Anthropic added web search to Claude, allowing it to browse the internet for up-to-date information.

Hybrid Zoom / IRL event tonight at SF JUG: Java meets AI: Build LLM-Powered Apps with LangChain4 with the amazing Eric Deandrea (@ericdeandrea.dev) , Quarkus and more. Register now: meetup.com/sfjava/events/… #meetup #java

🚀 Big news at Fivetran: We’re acquiring Census! This brings powerful Reverse ETL and activation capabilities to our platform, so data can flow wherever it’s needed — into your data platform and back into the tools where teams work every day: : fivetran.com/press/fivetran…

SF Java #meetup: Building #AI Agents with Spring & MCP with James Ward and Josh Long at Elastic office in #SanFrancisco meetup.com/sfjava/events/… Hybrid but in person preferred. Zoom URL only for registrants. 6/25/25 5:30pm PT #springboot

2025, and a large file copy still brings Microsoft Windows performance to it's knees. *sigh*