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Daily Digest #418

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1. New case study: How multi-billion dollar company ICF, uses AI⁷⁹⁹

2. New tutorial: Use ChatGPT to craft clear and comprehensive job descriptions⁴⁵⁴ for operations positions.

3. OpenAI has signed a deal with News Corp.²⁹⁰ News Corp owns publications like WSJ, New York Post, MarketWatch and more. The deal could be worth over $250M¹⁰⁸ 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 overhaul³⁷²—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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• Granola⁸⁶⁰ - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings.

• Helper²⁵⁹ - Get help replying to your customers.

• OpenCtx by Sourcegraph¹⁵¹ - View other dev tools’ information in the editor or code review as info chips.

• Ask AI by Superhuman³²⁶ - Get answers across all your emails—fast and accurate.

• Praktika⁴⁹⁴ - AI avatars for 1:1 language tutoring. (raised $35.5M)

• Nowadays³²⁶ - AI assistant for corporate event planning.

• Findr 2.0³⁷¹ - AI search assistant for work.

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NEWS

• Living documents⁵⁶² as a UX pattern in AI.

• TikTok turns to generative AI¹⁶⁷ to boost its ads business.

• GPT-5 is coming⁸⁵⁵ - Reading between the lines at Microsoft Build.

• Snowflake’s talks to buy Reka AI¹⁴² have broken down.

• DeepL raises $300M¹⁴⁵ at a $2B valuation for AI language solutions.

• FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads⁵⁷ must be disclosed.

• Vox reports that OpenAI’s senior leadership knew about aggressive departure terms¹²⁶ in employee contracts.

• As per a WSJ report, OpenAI didn’t copy^290† Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT.

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