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Greetings, tech aficionados! Mr. Byte here, charting your course through the thrilling universe of artificial intelligence. Let’s dive in!

• 🖼️ Google Maps AI update

• 🍴 10 AI news bites

• ⚖️ New AI executive order

• ⚙️ 5 crunch-certified AI tools

• 💰 10 recent AI investments

• 🔍 2 key AI reports

• 📸 2 AI-Generated videos

• 📝 1 prompt engineering insight

News

Google Maps AI Update… Visual Search

It's like Google Search and Maps had a brainchild. Type in "hungry for animal latte art," and voilà, Google will unleash its image-scouring AI to show you where to get that caffeine fix with a side of adorable foam critters. And for the nature enthusiasts, a quest for "fall leaves" won't just be a poetic expression anymore.

But wait, there's more! It's not all about satisfying your eyes and taste buds; Google also cares for your electric ride. Maps will now display the latest deets on EV charging stations, like the last time someone juiced up their car and what charging speed they offer. Because nothing's worse than an 'out of service' sign when you're running on battery fumes.

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News

🍴Quick Bites

Google Releases 3 Ways to Check Images / Sources: The new feature called “About this image”, is rolling out to users globally in Google Search

Microsoft Releases Github Copilot User Numbers: Over 1M users and "more than 1.9 billion chats"

Midjourney Releases Beta Website: Creating is not available yet. However, Imagine text box is visible with “Coming Soon”. So, its likely to be available soon

Amazon Releases AI-Powered Image Generator: New generative AI from Amazon enables advertisers to up their game and create more engaging ads

YouTube Music to Allow Users to Create Art for Playlists: YouTube Music will let you change up your playlist cover art by prompting a text-to-image AI

Shutterstock Releases New AI Features: Integrates creative AI into library of 700M images to offer first-ever marketplace of fully customizable stock

Boston Dynamics Update: Turned its robot, Spot, into a chatbot to serve as a talking tour guide in its facility, using ChatGPT for interactive capabilities

Beatles to Drop a New Song Thanks to AI: The official Beatles website announced a song called "Now and Then"… created with AI audio software

OpenAI Drops New ChatGPT Features: You can also chat with data files and other document types

UK Introduces ‘Gov.uk Chat’ Bot: The chatbot will assist the British public with legal queries, tax payments, pension access, and info on student loans

AI Tools

⚙️ Crunch-Certified AI Tools

FashionAdvisorAI: Get fashion advice from AI

Opus.ai: Create movies & games from text

Book Witch: Use the power of AI to create complete e-books

Playbook AI: AI-Powered creative file management and design tool

Detect GPT: Detect if webpage content is AI-generated

Funding

💰 AI Investments

Signos: AI metabolic heath and weight loss platform raised $20M

Oxolo: Raised $13M for AI-driven video engagement optimization

Quantum Systems: Raised $67M to develop unmanned aerial systems

Abridge: Raised $30M for AI solutions across U.S. healthcare systems

Anthropic: Google set to invest $2B

Heidi Health: AI healthcare company raised $10M

1337: AI-Based micro-influencer platform raised $4M

Mistral: Self-proclaimed “OpenAI of Europe” set to raise $300M

LegalMation: AI-powered litigation platform raised $15M

Blox: AI automation company for real estate raised $8M

Research

🔍 AI Reports, Presentations, and Papers

Eureka Paper by Nvidia: Human-Level reward design for LLM / Robots

Table-GPT: Microsoft paper detailing Table GPT, an LLM for different table tasks

Visuals

📸 AI-Generated Art / Videos of the Week

Prompts

📝 Prompt Engineering Insights

Midjourney Prompt Tutorial: Breakdown on high-quality prompt creation