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Hello, digital explorer! Mr. Byte reporting for duty, ready to guide you through the intricate maze of AI wonders. Time for The AI Crunch - let's decode the future!

• 💬 Reddit takes on search crawlers

• 🍴 11 AI news bites

• ⚠️ Google’s AI tools get leaked

• ⚙️ 5 crunch-certified AI tools

•  🍎 Apple to incorporate AI into IOS 18

• 💰 11 recent AI investments

• 🔍 2 key AI papers and presentations

• 📸 AI-generated video of the week 

• 📝 1 Prompt engineering insight

News

Reddit Threatens to Block Search Crawlers

Word on the digital street, thanks to The Washington Post, was that Reddit might go all VIP on us, demanding log-ins to even take a peek.

Plot twist: they might just give Google the silent treatment by blocking those nosy search crawlers. Imagine Googling Reddit and hearing crickets!

Oh, and if you thought Reddit was the only one stirring the pot, over 535 news orgs are now giving the cold shoulder to content scrapers.

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News

🍴Quick Bites

Lenovo and NVIDIA Team Up: Expanded partnership to provide end-to-end AI solutions that enable companies to easily build and deploy custom AI models

Foxconn and Nvidia Unite: Partnership to build artificial intelligence (AI) data factories to become a major global player in electric car manufacturing

Universal Music Group Sues Anthropic: Claude 2 previously generated copyrighted lyrics without proper licensing agreements

YouTube Voice Cloning: YouTube has asked record labels for the rights to use their songs to train a new AI-powered voice replicating tool

IBM Chip Speeds Up AI: IBM’s NorthPole processor sidesteps need to access external memory, boosting computing power, and saving energy

Square Launches AI Features: Includes a menu generator, website copy generator, email copy feature, and an automatic item descriptions for catalogs

China Approves Autonomous Air Taxis: Ehang has received approval for its fully autonomous drone that is capable of carrying two human passengers

Meta Decodes Brain Images: Meta has developed an AI system that can decode and reconstruct images from brain activity in real-time

Amazon Testing Humanoids: Amazon is conducting tests on humanoid robots known as Digit in select U.S. warehouses

NVIDIA’s Robot Breakthrough: Allows users to automatically generate algorithms to train robots — enabling them to learn complex skills faster

Microsoft Pushes Ahead: CEO Satya Nadella revealed that nearly 40% of Fortune 500 companies are experimenting with Microsoft's "Copilot"

News

Google’s AI Tools Leaked

PaLM 2, Google’s prior model, is making way for the new kid on the block: Gemini. This upgraded multimodal model is set to supercharge Makersuite, broadening horizons from mere text-to-text outputs.

But wait, there's more. A little birdie (or, you know, a leaked screenshot) hints at another bombshell: the introduction of "Stubbs." What’s a Stubb, you ask? Well, it seems it's Makersuite’s secret weapon, allowing users to craft and launch AI-generated apps. Talk about a game changer!

Now, back to our star, Gemini. This isn’t just a spruced-up version of its predecessor. It's primed to recognize text, understand images, and possibly even generate links to external photos.

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AI Tools

⚙️ Crunch-Certified AI Tools

QR Diffusion: QR code art generator

Where To: Find interesting and fun places to visit

WatchNow AI: AI-powered personalized movie and show recommendations

Kinetix: Create 3D animations for free

Hello History: Have unique conversations with historical figures

News

Apple Rumored to Include AI Features as Soon as IOS 18

Apple intends to introduce generative AI technology into iPhones and iPads by late 2024. The strategy involves a mix of cloud-based AI and "edge AI", emphasizing on-device data processing to maintain Apple's hallmark commitment to user privacy.

This potential roll-out could coincide with the launch of iOS 18, enhancing Siri's capabilities through integration with the Shortcuts app. Despite Apple's enthusiasm, some analysts caution they might be trailing behind competitors in this AI race.

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Funding

💰 AI Investments

OpenAI: Selling existing employees’ shares at an $86B valuation

Overstory: A startup using AI to mitigate wildfires raised $14M

SwingVision: AI-powered platform for tennis and other sports raised $6M

Brilliant Labs: A builder of AI-powered AR glasses raised $3M

Warmly: AI-powered sales platform for salespeople raised $11M

Bluebirds: Raised $5M for sales AI that finds ‘the best leads first’

Laxis: An AI assistant for revenue teams raised $2M

Luzia: AI assistant platform raised $10M

Skoon Energy: AI-powered platform for clean mobile energy raised $6M

mirco1: Startup using AI to hire software engineers raised $1M

Credit Genie: Raised $10M to provide personalized financial insights to users

Research

🔍 AI Reports, Presentations, and Papers

AI Report 2023: Insights from one of the largest ML communities, Kaggle

DALLE-3 Research Paper: Outlines DALLE-3’s main components

Visuals

📸 AI-Generated Art / Videos of the Week

Prompts

📝 Prompt Engineering Insights

Step-Back Prompting: New technique that has recently been discovered