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Hey folks,

Happy tradition trumps taste day for our American readers. I’ll be waiting for the biggest day of the year (Xmas) to pretend to like turkey.

The second biggest day of the year is in 2 days… any guesses?

ChatGPT’s birthday of course! A day for it to roll it’s AI eyes at the millions of humans asking it to write heartfelt poems about their cats, generate startup ideas that 'must exist,' and settle debates like 'Is cereal a soup?' Spoiler alert: it’s not, but your turkey sandwich could be!

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• Claude's new Styles feature, Sora leaked and 2B agent model.

• ICYMI: New guides on content repurposing and AI in personalized ads

• snack n skill - learn to create data visualizations using ChatGPT's new features

• 5 new AI tools and an experimental voice-control setup

• 5 interesting posts from around the web including Microsoft's AI training clarification

• to-do's

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• Styles in Claude is a new way to customize its responses. You can now choose from preset options (Concise, Explanatory, Formal) or create custom styles by uploading your own writing samples. No more repeated prompting to match your preferred communication style.

• OpenAI's Sora (the unreleased video generator) was temporarily leaked on Hugging Face by a group protesting early access program issues. The leak allowed users to generate 10-second, 1080p videos before being shut down. The group claims OpenAI is pressuring testers to spin positive narratives while not fairly compensating them for testing and feedback.

• H Company launched Runner H, a small agent that beats Claude's Computer Use benchmark, plus Studio - their platform to run web automations at scale.

• Gemini’s new experimental model Gemini-Exp-1121 is at the top of LM Arena (+ overall feedback is also good for this new model)

• News for humans, by humans.

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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

• 5 simple ways to repurpose written content using AI.

• How AI is transforming the personalised ads industry.

🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to create custom data visualizations with ChatGPT

Creating charts and graphs for presentations often means jumping between multiple tools. But ChatGPT's analytics features let you visualize, customize, and export data right in the chat interface.

Step 1. Connect your data source

Start by connecting ChatGPT to your cloud storage (Google Drive or OneDrive). Click the attachment button and authenticate your account to access your documents directly. Upload your data file or select it from your connected storage.

Step 2. Create and customize your visualizations

• Generate different types of charts by asking ChatGPT (line graphs, bar charts, pie charts)

• Use the expanded view to interact with and modify your charts

• Switch between Interactive and Static modes to preview final outputs

• Customize colors using the built-in color picker or hex codes

• Group data differently by requesting specific variables (e.g., by month, region)

• Download your charts in PNG format for use in presentations

Tip: When making changes to axes or data grouping, always check how it looks in Static Mode - this is what your downloaded image will look like.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this beginner’s tutorial. ChatGPT (or Claude) are good at basic data visualization tasks. For advanced tasks, check out Julius AI. (BB Pro members get an unbelievable deal) 🤩.

⚙️ Top new tools

• TLDR - Want a byte-sized version of Hacker News? Try TLDR’s free daily newsletter.*

• Spiral V2 - Automate your repetitive creative work, in your voice and style.

• Quso.ai - Your AI marketing team making social growth effortless.

• GenFM by ElevenLabs - Generate smart personal podcasts from PDFs, articles, or links. (kinda like NotebookLM)

• Snappy Retro - Create your retro board in seconds, share the encrypted unique URL, and collaborate in real-time

• With Hume, Replit and Claude computer use, you can now control a computer with just your voice.

More tools here →
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 📜 Interesting posts

• Let AI explain your job to your family (because I can’t—wdym you just write emails to 100k+ people)

• No, Microsoft isn’t using your Office docs to train its AI.

• Pharma CEO takes inspiration from ‘Fight Club’ to get his team hooked on AI.

• 7 examples of Gemini’s multimodal capabilities in action.

• Interview with OpenAI’s sales chief on where they are heading.

📌 To-dos

1. Let us know if you have any tutorials or courses you want us to create—we’re always open to ideas.

That wraps things up for today! See you again next week. 👋

Ben