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TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• Buggy Tasks from OpenAI, AI tutors, and better motion in videos

• snack n skill - learn to add a voice chatbot to your articles

• 6 fresh tools for teams and agent templates

• 6 posts on AI's impact on jobs and healthcare

• A word from HubSpot

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• OpenAI released Tasks for ChatGPT - Tasks allow ChatGPT to send you one-time or recurring reminders based on your custom request. Think of Tasks as a prompt with an alarm. So, if something can’t be done with a prompt currently, don’t hope Tasks can do them. Learning new things and custom reminders can be good examples for using Tasks.

  • The premise of Tasks i.e. AI working for you in the background is promising but the current implementation is not it. They are too limited and buggy. I’m currently stuck with a new email from OpenAI every hour because the page to delete Tasks isn’t working properly.

• A new study from Nigeria tested GPT-4 for AI-assisted tutoring. The results show a 2 year equivalent of learning progress in just 6 weeks, which is insane. It helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind. AI use here was guided by teachers, so no, teaching is not dead yet.

• Luma Labs launched a new video generation model Ray 2, especially focused on shots where motion is critical. Think running, fighting, driving. The visual quality is more realistic than their previous attempts. Text-to-video with Ray 2 is available to use now, with image and video inputs coming soon.

• Keeping up with tech news isn't easy (we should know). That's why Dan Ni created TLDR, the newsletter that covers the most interesting news in just 5 minutes. No sports, politics, or weather. And it's actually fun to read. Get it for free.*

• OpenAI also released their economic blueprint for AI—most well-read people I know got bored reading that, so I’m waiting until one of them powers through and explains it to me.
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🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to make your blog articles interactive with AI chat

Want to boost reader engagement? Add an AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions about your articles in real time. This walkthrough shows you how to create and embed a conversational agent that understands your content.

Step 1. Set up your chatbot in ElevenLabs

Create a new agent and configure its personality, first message, and system prompt to act as a knowledgeable representative of your article. Choose Gemini 1.5 Flash as your LLM for quick response times.

Step 2. Build and deploy your chat widget

• Import your article's content by simply pasting its URL into the knowledge base

• Configure the chatbot to only use information from the provided article

• Test your agent's responses through the built-in widget interface

• Customize the widget's appearance to match your site's design

• Grab the embed code and add it to your blog template

• Monitor conversations to improve the agent's responses

Tip: Write a welcoming first message that actively invites readers to ask questions about the article.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial. Check out our collection of tutorials focusing on chatbots.

⚙️ Top new tools

• Create.xyz - Turn your words into sites, tools, apps and products, now with Stripe integration. (I’m an investor)

• Aneta - Employee engagement with AI agents for modern teams.

• Liveblocks - AI copilots ready to drop into your app.

• Ambient Agents by Langchain - Human-in-the-loop agents to scale ourselves. (demo email assistant)

• AI reading club - An experiment to integrate LLMs in reading.

• Agent recipes - Common agent recipes with ready-to-copy code.

More tools here →
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📜 Interesting posts

• Wall Street can lose 200k+ jobs due to AI.

• Impact of genAI takes centre stage in WEF’s Future of Jobs 2025 report.

• Prophecies of the flood - what to make of AGI statements from the AI labs?

• What companies succeeding with AI do differently.

• OpenAI is funding four local newsrooms for Axios.

• Mayo Clinic & Microsoft Research are partnering for X-ray evaluations. Mayo Clinic has also created a foundational genomics model with Cerebras.

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📌 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