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Daily Digest #466

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• our first expert workshop - How to build AI agents to automate your work²⁶⁶ 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 data³⁵⁵. Use ChatGPT to analyze vast amounts of financial data to reveal trends and potential future trajectories.

   • How to prepare, interview, and evaluate for technical roles¹⁶⁷. Use AI to help hire for technical roles like engineering, data science, and design.

   • Create a graphic novel³⁴¹. Learn how to create graphic novel scenes with Claude, Leonardo, and Canva.

   • Create a dismissal process for your company¹¹². Use ChatGPT to help you implements PIPs, issue warnings and ensure a smooth exit procedure.

   • Create an ebook from your notes²¹⁷. Go from notes to a collated and designed e-book with Claude and Gamma.

2. Meta is launching an AI Studio.⁴⁹⁹ 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 Intelligence²⁶⁰, with most of it still hidden. Plus we have a technical report¹⁰¹ on Apple’s on-device and server foundation models.

4. OpenAI is starting an alpha program with an experimental version of GPT-4o²⁴⁶ with a maximum of 64K output tokens. It’ll cost 20% more than the regular GPT-4o in the API.

5. Introducing Flow by Speechmatics²²⁰ – 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 waitlist²²⁰. (sponsor)

TOP TOOLS

• AssemblyAI¹⁹⁶* - Multilingual Speech-to-Text API with Near-Human Accuracy.

• Excel Dashboard⁵²⁶ - Turn Excel data into 10-page reports in seconds.

• Documentor²²⁶ - Improve technical documentation with the power of AI.

• Topview²³⁵ - Turn your links or media assets into viral videos in one click.

• AMA by Adsby²²⁷ - AI marketing assistant to handle every aspect of your marketing effortlessly.

• Datrics¹⁹⁷ - Your custom GenAI solution for analytics and reporting.

• Beloga³²⁴ - Your personal AI knowledge amplifier.

• 2024 Paris Games²⁹⁶ - Chat with the schedule of the summer Olympics.

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NEWS

• The art of the AI pivot⁵¹⁵ - 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^163† to try it out.

• What are the threats to the $1T AI boom²⁰⁵?

• Canva acquires Leonardo AI²⁴⁴ without disclosing the financial terms.

• New SEAL leaderboard on Adversarial Robustness⁵¹ test LLMs for safety violations.

Education Corner:

• Building an RPG-style game with jailbreaking LLMs.¹⁸³

• A free survey course on LLMs¹⁷⁹, taught by practitioners.

• Coding an AI voice bot¹⁶³ from scratch.

• Learn workflow automation with LLMs and tool use.¹⁵⁵

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Unclassifieds - short, sponsored links

• Prompt Engineering for Generative AI⁸⁸ - O'Reilly book based on principles that worked for GPT-3, still work for GPT-4, and (hopefully) GPT-5

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