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PICKS

1. New Tutorials:

   1. Turn inbound emails into actionable sales leads with AI. Automatically extract customer details from inbound emails and add them to a leads database.

   2. Develop an AI-powered blog content calendar. Use AI to develop a blog content plan for your business and automate writing posts.

   3. Create a presentation slide deck with Canva’s Magic Studio. Whip up custom presentation decks using ChatGPT for copy and Canva’s AI for design.

2. Twitter is secretly feeding your posts to Grok. A new default setting silently opts you into using your posts and interactions to train the AI model, with the option to opt-out hidden on the web version only. Meanwhile, our boy Elon boldly claims Grok will be the "most powerful AI" by December.

3. Anthropic is under fire for aggressive data scraping! Websites like Freelancer.com and iFixit.com accuse it of bombarding their sites with bot armies to harvest training data (think 3.5M requests in 4 hours). They say Anthropic is playing dirty, ignoring internet etiquette, and making it way more expensive to keep their websites running.

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NEWS

• Anthropic API fundamentals - The essentials of working with Claude and the Claude SDK.

• Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton uses an AI voice clone to address Congress.

• Apple will adopt voluntary AI safeguards established by the US government.

• Can Roelof Botha keep Sequoia ahead in the AI future?

• LLMs will not end work.

• A clamor for generative AI, even if something else works better.

• Chat-oriented programming (CHOP) in action.

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