Daily Digest: Alexa with AI

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PICKS

1. New case study: How multi-billion dollar company ICF, uses AI

2. New tutorial: Use ChatGPT to craft clear and comprehensive job descriptions for operations positions.

3. OpenAI has signed a deal with News Corp. News Corp owns publications like WSJ, New York Post, MarketWatch and more. The deal could be worth over $250M over 5 years. The estimates for OpenAI’s previous deals with Axel Springer and FT max out at $10M a year.

4. Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul—and a monthly subscription price. The upgrade is supposed to come later this year but it won’t be priced into your Prime subscription. The sadder part is that Amazon is expected to use its own Titan models for this upgrade. What’s Titan? Don’t ask me…even I don’t know.

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NEWS

• Living documents as a UX pattern in AI.

• TikTok turns to generative AI to boost its ads business.

• GPT-5 is coming - Reading between the lines at Microsoft Build.

• Snowflake’s talks to buy Reka AI have broken down.

• DeepL raises $300M at a $2B valuation for AI language solutions.

• FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed.

• Vox reports that OpenAI’s senior leadership knew about aggressive departure terms in employee contracts.

• As per a WSJ report, OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT.

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