by Mike Taylor in Also True for Humans Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. As a consultant, I spend a lot of time in PowerPoint. Data doesn’t drive decisions, ...

Are your desktops or download folders overflowing with files? Since mine was overflowing, I decided to solve it with Python. What can this script do? When you run this script, it will automatically ...

A new benchmark puts top models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 to work on the kinds of tasks junior investment bankers handle every day. Not a single output was deemed ready to send to a client.

This tool converts PDF files and images into editable PowerPoint presentations (.pptx) by leveraging structured data from the MinerU PDF Extractor. It accurately reconstructs text, images, and layout, ...

The NotebookLM tool lets you summarize content, get answers using AI, and, most importantly, create presentation slides from notes. However, there’s one caveat. The NotebookLM exports slides as PDFs ...

The rapid evolution of generative AI has created a pressing need for tools that can efficiently prepare diverse data sources for large language models (LLMs). Transforming information that is encoded ...

Advanced usage: you can also add a target filename and an LLM name. At the moment, only OpenAI's LLMs are supported. translate-pptx my_slides.pptx german my_translated_slides.pptx gpt-4o Under the ...

A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) ...

MarkItDown is an open-source Python library from Microsoft that converts various file formats to Markdown for indexing and analysis. Markdown is a popular lightweight markup language with plain text ...

This Step-by-Step guide demonstrates how to use Python and the python-pptx library to create PowerPoint presentations from command line. The steps and code provided in this guide are not specific to ...