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Daily Digest #461

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Hello folks, next week we have our first expert workshop with Sully Omar - ‘How to build AI agents to automate your work⁵⁶⁰’. He’ll share how he uses Claude and ChatGPT, using various tools to build AI agents and how you can automate repetitive tasks.

Here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. New course on Ben’s Bites: Building mini apps with Claude Artifacts⁶⁶⁰. Projects inside include:

   • Spinning up an interactive data dashboard.

   • Creating a new hire onboarding bot.

   • Building an interactive decision-maker bot.

2. Leaked benchmarks for Meta’s Llama 3.1-405B⁷¹² signal that Llama has beaten GPT-4o—OpenAI’s flagship model. If Meta continues on its promise of open-sourcing models, the best LLM in the world will be actually open. The countdown on PH⁶⁹⁴ is set for 12:15 PM ET today.

3. Condé Nast slaps Perplexity AI with cease-and-desist!²⁸⁸ The magazine giant demands the AI search engine stop using its content, following Forbes' similar move. Perplexity, now valued at $3B, is facing growing legal challenges over its content use.

4. ZAP’s flagship flavor, Wild Kiwi Workflow²⁵⁵, is perfect for those looking for an AI-powered jolt to help build workflows with ease.

   • Activate Zapier’s AI copilot to build workflows and simplify complex tasks

   • Add advanced AI actions across 7,000+ apps

   • Automate processes as fast as you can type

   Start transforming your workflows with ZAP and claim your free sample today!²⁵⁵ (sponsor)

TOP TOOLS

• Liminal¹⁹⁰* - Workflow productivity tools provide secure access to gen AI anywhere work gets done. Enterprise-grade data security & governance.

• Vozo²⁴⁵ - Transform viral videos into new stories with prompts.

• Orch¹⁶⁴ - Rust framework for LLM orchestration.

• Gobi⁴²⁰ - A new way of wellbeing.

• Airy^375† - Reflection journal that grows with you.

• Study Map^655† - Learn any skill with the power of AI.

• ChartFast⁴⁵⁴ - Get your own AI data analyst to do your data work.

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NEWS

• Japan’s copyright rules²⁰³ draw AI groups—and alarm from creators.

• Shaped raises $8M^182† for a self-serve platform for AI search and recommendations.

• The uneven distribution of AI’s environmental impacts.¹⁶⁸

• Why do AIs need to stop and think³⁴⁶ before they answer?

• Confronting impossible futures^189† - predicting and planning them.

• NeuralGCM by Google¹⁴³ - Climate AI model that simulates a week in less than 10 seconds.

• Stability AI releases research paper for Stable Audio Open,¹³² trained with Creative Commons data.

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Unclassifieds - short, sponsored links

• Prompt Engineering for Generative AI¹⁷¹ - O'Reilly book based on principles that worked for GPT-3, still work for GPT-4, and (hopefully) GPT-5

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