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🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• Mistral launches Le Chat, challenging ChatGPT's dominance

• Musk's $97.4B OpenAI offer rejected

• Apple developing camera-equipped AirPods for AR experiences

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Django's select_related() and prefetch_related() solve the N+1 query problem

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🚀 Meet le Chat: Your All-New AI Assistant for Work and Life (5 min)

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📸 Apple Developing AirPods with Cameras: What’s Next? (2 min)

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🧠 Neuralink Celebrates a Year of Telepathy: Pioneering Brain-Computer Interfaces (3 min)

Brief: Neuralink reveals progress in its PRIME Study, showcasing the impact of its brain-computer interface on users Noland, Alex, and Brad in restoring independence and enhancing daily life despite severe paralysis.

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

In Python's Django framework, you can optimize database queries using select_related() and prefetch_related() to solve the N+1 query problem. These methods help reduce the number of database queries when dealing with related models through foreign keys or many-to-many relationships.

Wen?

• Related Model Access: When you know you'll need to access related models' data in a loop or multiple times throughout your code.

• API Endpoints: In REST APIs where you're serializing models with related data, preventing multiple database hits during serialization.

• Admin Interface: When customizing Django admin views that display related model information in list views or detail pages.

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