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Hello folks, yesterday we had reports of phishing alerts on Gmail - please mark as safe sender/check spam/all that good stuff to stop things like this from happening. We’re looking into why it happened!

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• our first expert workshop - How to build AI agents to automate your work is today! Make sure you’re registered (link on the event page) - if you’re having trouble seeing the link, please let me know.

here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. New tutorials:

   • Conduct long-term trend analysis with historical financial data. Use ChatGPT to analyze vast amounts of financial data to reveal trends and potential future trajectories.

   • How to prepare, interview, and evaluate for technical roles. Use AI to help hire for technical roles like engineering, data science, and design.

   • Create a graphic novel. Learn how to create graphic novel scenes with Claude, Leonardo, and Canva.

   • Create a dismissal process for your company. Use ChatGPT to help you implements PIPs, issue warnings and ensure a smooth exit procedure.

   • Create an ebook from your notes. Go from notes to a collated and designed e-book with Claude and Gamma.

2. Meta is launching an AI Studio. You can create custom AI characters for Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp (US only). No tech skills are needed to build these characters—just prompting. Example: AIs for cooking tips, meme generation, or creator clones that answer fan questions.

3. iOS 18.1 dev beta shows glimpses of Apple Intelligence, with most of it still hidden. Plus we have a technical report on Apple’s on-device and server foundation models.

4. OpenAI is starting an alpha program with an experimental version of GPT-4o with a maximum of 64K output tokens. It’ll cost 20% more than the regular GPT-4o in the API.

5. Introducing Flow by Speechmatics – the ultimate API enabling seamless voice interactions with any product. Harness the power of LLMs and AI to create responsive, inclusive, and enterprise-ready conversational experiences. Elevate your AI products with seamless voice technology. Join the waitlist. (sponsor)

TOP TOOLS

• AssemblyAI* - Multilingual Speech-to-Text API with Near-Human Accuracy.

• Excel Dashboard - Turn Excel data into 10-page reports in seconds.

• Documentor - Improve technical documentation with the power of AI.

• Topview - Turn your links or media assets into viral videos in one click.

• AMA by Adsby - AI marketing assistant to handle every aspect of your marketing effortlessly.

• Datrics - Your custom GenAI solution for analytics and reporting.

• Beloga - Your personal AI knowledge amplifier.

• 2024 Paris Games - Chat with the schedule of the summer Olympics.

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NEWS

• The art of the AI pivot - How one startup turned failure into 3 million users in three months.

• Meta has released version 2 of its Segment Anything model with a demo tool to try it out.

• What are the threats to the $1T AI boom?

• Canva acquires Leonardo AI without disclosing the financial terms.

• New SEAL leaderboard on Adversarial Robustness test LLMs for safety violations.

Education Corner:

• Building an RPG-style game with jailbreaking LLMs.

• A free survey course on LLMs, taught by practitioners.

• Coding an AI voice bot from scratch.

• Learn workflow automation with LLMs and tool use.

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Unclassifieds - short, sponsored links

• Prompt Engineering for Generative AI - O'Reilly book based on principles that worked for GPT-3, still work for GPT-4, and (hopefully) GPT-5

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