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Daily Digest #358

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Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. I wrote a deep dive on how CB Insights uses AI internally and in its products²⁶. They set up an AI tiger team and do regular Hack days and Lunch and Learns to share knowledge with other team members.

2. Apple cancels Project Titan²⁷⁸, its 10-year-old secretive electric car project. Reports say that this team will now focus on AI. Separately, in the annual shareholder meeting, Tim Cook said that Apple would break new ground in GenAI³³⁰ this year.

3. OpenAI has some more troubles.⁴²⁶ It’s facing two more lawsuits. Raw Story, AlterNet, and, in a separate case, The Intercept are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.

4. Jobs to be gone - Our weekly marketing digest.⁶⁹⁶ Marketing-related freelancing jobs are taking a hit but we’ve got you with some guides and a handbook on navigating the space.

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• Adobe is making AI tools for audio too and they shared a (cool) demo^404†.

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NEWS

• US SEC is looking into Sam Altman²⁸⁰’s internal communications after the board fired him last year.

• EU is now after Microsoft's €15M stake²²⁷ in Mistral AI.

• Jasper acquires Clipdrop²⁸³ from Stability AI.

• Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy is Snowflake’s new CEO.¹⁹³ Snowflake acquired Neeva, the AI search startup, last year.

• Welcome to the era of BadGPTs⁶¹⁵.

• Ideogram raises $80M from a16z¹⁷⁵ and announces its improved model Ideogram 1.0.²³¹

• Essential math for AI⁴⁹⁷ by OReilly.

• Short course on prompt engineering⁴⁶⁸ with Llama 2.

• Brief history of the open source AI hacker²¹²—with Ben Firshman of Replicate. Also, check out my deep dive⁹ on Replicate (free Pro post).

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