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In today’s edition:

• 🤖 ChatGPT now can see, hear, speak

• 💰 Amazon Joins the AI Jamboree with $4 Billion

• 🌐 Tools, Tweets, Resources and Tutorials

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CHATGPT

ChatGPT now can see, hear, speak

OpenAI has announced significant enhancements to ChatGPT, introducing voice and image-based capabilities to its widely successful generative AI assistant.

These features will allow users to have voice conversations and search for answers using images, making interactions more versatile and dynamic.

🍒 And here’s the cherry on top:

OpenAI has partnered with Spotify for the launch, enabling podcasters to translate their shows while retaining their original voices.

🌀 Rolling Out the Fun:

The new features will begin rolling out to paying Plus and Enterprise subscribers in the coming two weeks.

AMAZON

Amazon Joins the AI Jamboree with $4 Billion

In the relentless tech tango for AI supremacy, Amazon is throwing a cool $4 billion toward Anthropic, the creator of the responsible chatbot Claude.

💛 Anthropic: The Golden Child of AI

Anthropic is recognized for its promising developments in generative AI, capable of creating humanlike texts and images.

This investment is a dance of mutual benefits. Anthropic gets the cash and computing power, and Amazon boosts its cloud-computing business and AI profile. It’s a win-win dance that’s becoming the tech world’s signature move.

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TWEETS

1/ Tired of watermarks in videos?

2/ Self-driving cars cause a traffic jam in Austin, Texas.

TRENDING TOOLS AND WEBSITES

🧠 myReach – A personal AI assistant designed to serve as a second brain, offering a comprehensive solution for organizing, searching, and extracting information across various media types. (link)

📊 ChartGen - A user-friendly tool that simplifies the process of creating data visualizations. (link)

🎨 Draw3D - An online software designed to help users transform their sketches into photorealistic images. (link)

🏠 Room AI - A powerful AI-driven interior design tool that allows users to generate professional-grade designs in a fraction of the time. (link)

💹 StockInsights - A pioneering financial research platform that harnesses Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver powerful insights from complex financial data. (link)

Evolution of Midjourney in just 1 year

TUTORIALS

Tool used: Midjourney

1/ Go to krea.ai and enter the following code:

KREA-SPIRAL-SUNDAY

2/Start a new canvas file and select the Pattern tool on the left toolbar.

3/Introduce a prompt (or roll the dice), click generate, and boom! get amazing spiral images in seconds

4/Use "Pattern strength" in advanced settings to control the amount of influence of the pattern in the final image.

And finally, play with many different patterns!

HOT OFF THE PRESS

AI

I Lost My Voice, So I Cloned It With Generative AI. Read More → medium

How to AI. Full Breakdown → uxdesign

The humanoid-robot CEO of a drinks company says it doesn't have weekends and is 'always on 24/7'. Read more → yahoo

TECH

Hotel hackers redirect guests to fake Booking.com to steal cards. Read More → bleepingcomputers

How He Found a New Tech Job in 3 Months. Read More → medium

Spotify will not ban AI-made music, says boss. Read More → bbc

BUSINESS

User onboarding: Is HEY Email Worth It? Case Study → growthdesign

The Psychology of Design and Business. Read More → growthdesign

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