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⚡️ Electric planes are here...
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
Electric planes are flying successful demo missions, offering an exciting glimpse of sustainable, emission-free aviation in the future.
Can batteries and infrastructure evolve fast enough to enable widespread use? Let’s dive in…
In today’s tech rundown:
Electric planes taking off into the future
New tech making fishing cheaper and greener
10 New products
7 quick stories
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
TRANSPORTATION
✈️ Electric planes taking off into the future
Image source: NY Times
The Rundown: Battery-powered aircraft like the CX300 from startup Beta Technologies are starting to become viable for short flights, offering a vision of future sustainable aviation.
The details:
The CX300 recently flew 1,200 miles down the East Coast over 16 days to demonstrate its capabilities.
Companies like Joby and Archer are also developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Benefits include no emissions, lower noise, and simplified operation and maintenance.
Early uses will likely be cargo transport, connecting rural areas, and replacing helicopters over short routes.
The relevance: This is an exciting step toward decarbonized aviation — but modern batteries still remain a major limitation, not to mention infrastructure and legislation — meaning widespread use is still likely years away.
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SUSTAINABILITY
🎣 New tech making fishing cheaper and greener
Image source: SafetyNet Technologies
The Rundown: Fishermen are adopting new technologies to improve efficiency and sustainability, including underwater cameras, LED lighting systems, and ocean sensors to reduce fuel costs and waste.
The details:
Colored LED lights attached to nets can attract target species while repelling bycatch like turtles, reducing entanglements by over 60%.
Underwater cameras give fishermen live video feeds to monitor their nets, reducing the guesswork and time needed to check for issues.
Smart sensors collect ocean data like depth and temperature that fishermen can analyze to optimize operations.
Benefits include less time at sea, lower fuel consumption, decreased bycatch and spoilage, and higher quality target catches.
The relevance: Optimizing processes with tech advances clearly serves both environmental and business goals — however, incentives encouraging adoption may be needed to drive industry change.
NEW PRODUCTS
📅 Recatch- Google forms and Calendly combined (link)
📧 MassInbox- Cold email mass sends for agencies and startups (link)
🖥️ Keep React- React-powered web solutions with open-source UI components (link)
❓Quenti- Similar to Quizlet but open-source (link)
💼 Taplio- All-in-one AI-powered tool for creating, managing, and growing your personal brand on LinkedIn (link)
📧 Superhuman- The fastest email experience ever made, with AI-powered features (link)
✍️ Rytr- An AI writing assistant that helps you create high-quality content, in just a few seconds (link)
🎨 Uizard- Design wireframes, prototypes, and mockups quickly and easily (link)
👩🏽🍳ChefGPT- AI digital chef & kitchen companion (link)
⌨️ Quicky AI- Use AI on any website instantly just by selecting text (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
SNIPPETS
Attendees of ApeFest 2023 in Hong Kong report vision and skin injuries from suspected UV light exposure.
Tesla plans to manufacture its most affordable car yet, priced at around €25,000, at its Gigafactory in Berlin.
SpaceX's Starlink has reached breakeven cash flow, a significant milestone for the satellite internet business's financial viability.
Apple is set to refresh its full range of iPads throughout 2024, with updates anticipated for the iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini, and the entry-level iPad.
The tech giant is also reportedly developing its own batteries, potentially enhancing future iPhones' battery life.
MediaTek's new Dimensity 9300 chip claims to rival Qualcomm's latest in performance and efficiency.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are set to increase capital expenditure to expand cloud capacities for generative AI, which demands extensive computing resources.
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🤖 Elon Musk reveals his ChatGPT rival
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Elon Musk's startup xAI just revealed Grok — a new ChatGPT rival with an edgy, uncensored personality.
Is the world ready for an unfiltered AI chatbot with less guardrails? We’re about to find out…
In today’s AI rundown:
Elon Musk's xAI launches ChatGPT rival Grok
Rumored ChatGPT upgrades leaked before Dev Day
9 New AI tools
Clone any writing style with ChatGPT
3 Quick AI updates
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
XAI
🤖 Elon Musk's xAI launches ChatGPT rival Grok
Image source: xAI
The Rundown: Elon Musk just unveiled Grok, a ‘witty and rebellious’ AI chatbot created by his company xAI and designed as a competitor to ChatGPT.
The details:
Grok was trained over just a two-month period, and is intended to be witty and uncensored — with both ‘normal’ and ‘fun’ modes.
The core AI engine is called Grok-1, which xAI claims surpasses GPT-3.5 on certain benchmarks but currently lags behind GPT-4.
Grok has access to real-time posts on X, allowing it to converse about current events — and will eventually be released to all X Premium+ subscribers once out of beta testing.
Users can multi-task with several chats running simultaneously and response times at ‘screen refresh’ speed.
API, image, and audio recognition are planned, with a version of Grok also running natively in Teslas using local computing.
Our thoughts: Grok's rebellious and uncensored tone is a stark contrast to ChatGPT's tightly guarded responses — and its access to the trove of Twitter data should make for an interesting (but often noisy) knowledge base. The fact that Grok was trained in just over two months shows that xAI will be a true competitive threat to OpenAI.
TOGETHER WITH OCTOML
🔥 Learn to customize your LLM app with RAG + Llama 2
The Rundown: OctoAI is the fastest place to run, tune, and scale generative AI, and their free workshop on November 9th will help level up your generic GPT wrapper to a context-aware product experience.
In this live interactive session, you’ll get step-by-step instructions on:
How to leverage the RAG framework to apply custom data to your app
How to clone an OctoAI Llama2 model template to create your own endpoint
How to deploy and test your Llama2 endpoint in a sample Q&A application
Everyone will get free GPU hours to follow along with OctoAI’s Llama2 development endpoints. Register for free here.
OPENAI
🚨 Rumored ChatGPT upgrades leaked before Dev Day
Image source: The Rundown
The Rundown: Several unconfirmed leaks suggest big changes coming to ChatGPT at OpenAI's developer conference today, including custom bot building, external app integration, subscription upgrades, and more.
The details:
A new prototype called Gizmo V8 may enable sandbox testing, API custom actions, knowledge file attachments, and analytics.
A feature nicknamed "GPT Builder" could allow anyone to create customized AI assistants — with the potential for an ‘app store’ of bots.
Screenshots show ChatGPT may gain context connectors to link with outside apps like Microsoft 365 and Google Drive.
New pricing tiers leaked include a $25/month Team Plan with unlimited fast GPT-4 access, 4x longer context, advanced data analysis, and no data usage for model training.
Rumors also point to speed boosts for GPT-4, a DALL-E 3 API, and potential open-sourcing of GPT-3.
Why it matters: DevDay is shaping up to be one of the most exciting days of the year for AI enthusiasts! You can watch the free livestream here at 10:00 AM PST — and we’ll be live from the event, reporting all the juicy details for tomorrow’s newsletter.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
TRENDING TOOLS
🤖 Conveyor- Generate the most accurate AI answers to entire security questionnaires (link)*
📫 Mindy- Your own email-first AI chief of staff (link)
⌨️ CodeGPT- Your AI coding sidekick (link)
⚙️ Lindy- A new way to create AI employees (link)
🖋️ Insou- Write presentations like a doc (link)
🚀 Success.ai- Supercharge your growth with AI-powered cold emails (link)
📸 Nexa.ai- Instant AI product & model photography at studio quality (link)
💼 Limeline- Let AI take all your online meetings (link)
🦾 Browse AI- Train a robot in 2 minutes to extract and monitor data from any website (link)
🎤 Castmagic- Turn long-form audio into ready-to-use content assets, instantly (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
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AI TRAINING
✍️ Clone any writing style with ChatGPT
Tired of generic ChatGPT responses? With just four steps, you can train the free GPT-3.5 model to mimic any writing style:
Step 1: Collect writing samples that exemplify the style you want to clone. The more high-quality samples, the better.
Step 2: Input the prompt below into ChatGPT (it’s long, provided in the image below and in our Expert ChatGPT Guide). This tells it to analyze and adopt the writing patterns.
Step 3: Type "BEGIN" so ChatGPT knows samples are coming. Paste your first writing sample and wait for "CONTINUE" before adding more.
Step 4: ChatGPT will analyze your samples and recreate the style. Test it out by giving writing prompts — if the output isn't close enough initially, feed it more samples to further refine the style.
In just minutes, you can unlock ChatGPT's full stylistic range for free. Say goodbye to boring, repetitive content generation.
QUICK HITS
💸 AI Forward 2023: LLMs in the Enterprise - From Theory to Practice (sponsor)
Learn from LlamaIndex, Weights & Biases, MosaicML, Airbnb, and more on how to overcome LLMOps challenges to deliver real business value from LLMs, including hands-on workshops. Register now for AI Forward — a FREE one-day virtual summit!
🖌️ Runway debuts physical AI video editing machine
RunwayML just introduced 1stAI Machine, a physical device that lets users create videos with AI alone — no filming required. It anticipates a post-camera future where anyone can generate movie-quality video as creative AI advances. Check out the cool demo here.
😵 Musk foresees AI bringing end to work
Elon Musk made some bold predictions to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during the AI summit — including that the technology may one day eliminate jobs entirely. Musk believes paid work will become redundant, with the challenge of the future being ‘finding purpose in life’.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Mid/Senior Product Analyst at Synthesia
Security Engineering Manager, Compliance at Anthropic
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🤖 Elon Musk reveals his ChatGPT rival
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Elon Musk's startup xAI just revealed Grok — a new ChatGPT rival with an edgy, uncensored personality.
Is the world ready for an unfiltered AI chatbot with less guardrails? We’re about to find out…
In today’s AI rundown:
Elon Musk's xAI launches ChatGPT rival Grok
Rumored ChatGPT upgrades leaked before Dev Day
9 New AI tools
Clone any writing style with ChatGPT
3 Quick AI updates
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
XAI
🤖 Elon Musk's xAI launches ChatGPT rival Grok
Image source: xAI
The Rundown: Elon Musk just unveiled Grok, a ‘witty and rebellious’ AI chatbot created by his company xAI and designed as a competitor to ChatGPT.
The details:
Grok was trained over just a two-month period, and is intended to be witty and uncensored — with both ‘normal’ and ‘fun’ modes.
The core AI engine is called Grok-1, which xAI claims surpasses GPT-3.5 on certain benchmarks but currently lags behind GPT-4.
Grok has access to real-time posts on X, allowing it to converse about current events — and will eventually be released to all X Premium+ subscribers once out of beta testing.
Users can multi-task with several chats running simultaneously and response times at ‘screen refresh’ speed.
API, image, and audio recognition are planned, with a version of Grok also running natively in Teslas using local computing.
Our thoughts: Grok's rebellious and uncensored tone is a stark contrast to ChatGPT's tightly guarded responses — and its access to the trove of Twitter data should make for an interesting (but often noisy) knowledge base. The fact that Grok was trained in just over two months shows that xAI will be a true competitive threat to OpenAI.
TOGETHER WITH OCTOML
🔥 Learn to customize your LLM app with RAG + Llama 2
The Rundown: OctoAI is the fastest place to run, tune, and scale generative AI, and their free workshop on November 9th will help level up your generic GPT wrapper to a context-aware product experience.
In this live interactive session, you’ll get step-by-step instructions on:
How to leverage the RAG framework to apply custom data to your app
How to clone an OctoAI Llama2 model template to create your own endpoint
How to deploy and test your Llama2 endpoint in a sample Q&A application
Everyone will get free GPU hours to follow along with OctoAI’s Llama2 development endpoints. Register for free here.
OPENAI
🚨 Rumored ChatGPT upgrades leaked before Dev Day
Image source: The Rundown
The Rundown: Several unconfirmed leaks suggest big changes coming to ChatGPT at OpenAI's developer conference today, including custom bot building, external app integration, subscription upgrades, and more.
The details:
A new prototype called Gizmo V8 may enable sandbox testing, API custom actions, knowledge file attachments, and analytics.
A feature nicknamed "GPT Builder" could allow anyone to create customized AI assistants — with the potential for an ‘app store’ of bots.
Screenshots show ChatGPT may gain context connectors to link with outside apps like Microsoft 365 and Google Drive.
New pricing tiers leaked include a $25/month Team Plan with unlimited fast GPT-4 access, 4x longer context, advanced data analysis, and no data usage for model training.
Rumors also point to speed boosts for GPT-4, a DALL-E 3 API, and potential open-sourcing of GPT-3.
Why it matters: DevDay is shaping up to be one of the most exciting days of the year for AI enthusiasts! You can watch the free livestream here at 10:00 AM PST — and we’ll be live from the event, reporting all the juicy details for tomorrow’s newsletter.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
TRENDING TOOLS
🤖 Conveyor- Generate the most accurate AI answers to entire security questionnaires (link)*
📫 Mindy- Your own email-first AI chief of staff (link)
⌨️ CodeGPT- Your AI coding sidekick (link)
⚙️ Lindy- A new way to create AI employees (link)
🖋️ Insou- Write presentations like a doc (link)
🚀 Success.ai- Supercharge your growth with AI-powered cold emails (link)
📸 Nexa.ai- Instant AI product & model photography at studio quality (link)
💼 Limeline- Let AI take all your online meetings (link)
🦾 Browse AI- Train a robot in 2 minutes to extract and monitor data from any website (link)
🎤 Castmagic- Turn long-form audio into ready-to-use content assets, instantly (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
* = This is sponsored content
AI TRAINING
✍️ Clone any writing style with ChatGPT
Tired of generic ChatGPT responses? With just four steps, you can train the free GPT-3.5 model to mimic any writing style:
Step 1: Collect writing samples that exemplify the style you want to clone. The more high-quality samples, the better.
Step 2: Input the prompt below into ChatGPT (it’s long, provided in the image below and in our Expert ChatGPT Guide). This tells it to analyze and adopt the writing patterns.
Step 3: Type "BEGIN" so ChatGPT knows samples are coming. Paste your first writing sample and wait for "CONTINUE" before adding more.
Step 4: ChatGPT will analyze your samples and recreate the style. Test it out by giving writing prompts — if the output isn't close enough initially, feed it more samples to further refine the style.
In just minutes, you can unlock ChatGPT's full stylistic range for free. Say goodbye to boring, repetitive content generation.
QUICK HITS
💸 AI Forward 2023: LLMs in the Enterprise - From Theory to Practice (sponsor)
Learn from LlamaIndex, Weights & Biases, MosaicML, Airbnb, and more on how to overcome LLMOps challenges to deliver real business value from LLMs, including hands-on workshops. Register now for AI Forward — a FREE one-day virtual summit!
🖌️ Runway debuts physical AI video editing machine
RunwayML just introduced 1stAI Machine, a physical device that lets users create videos with AI alone — no filming required. It anticipates a post-camera future where anyone can generate movie-quality video as creative AI advances. Check out the cool demo here.
😵 Musk foresees AI bringing end to work
Elon Musk made some bold predictions to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during the AI summit — including that the technology may one day eliminate jobs entirely. Musk believes paid work will become redundant, with the challenge of the future being ‘finding purpose in life’.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Mid/Senior Product Analyst at Synthesia
Security Engineering Manager, Compliance at Anthropic
Browse all available AI job positions with our job board.
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⚡️ Nanowire 'brain' learns like humans!
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
Can machines think just like humans?
Well, looks like they’re getting closer, thanks to researchers at the University of Sydney. Let’s get into it.
In today’s tech rundown:
Nanowire ‘brain’ learns ‘on the fly’ like humans
This ship sails on pure ammonia
10 New products
7 quick stories
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
TECH RESEARCH
🤖 Nanowire brain learns ‘on the fly’ like humans
Image source: Phys
The Rundown: University of Sydney researchers have created a "brain-like" nanowire network capable of learning and remembering in real-time, similar to that of human brain function.
The details:
The nanowire neural network self-organizes into patterns, functioning like the brain's synapses by responding to electrical currents.
This network can process dynamic data streams efficiently, using a low-energy approach for complex learning and memory tasks.
The nanowire's resistive memory switching mimics synaptic activity, allowing it to perform image recognition tasks with high accuracy.
The relevance: This innovation demonstrates a scalable method for machine learning that operates "on the fly," bypassing the need for large data storage and energy-intensive training methods.
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Offering game results, rivalry updates, athlete interviews, and more in a fun, bite-sized, women-written newsletter.
Delivered to over 800,000 subscribers every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.
Includes exclusive insights and engaging content tailored for college sports enthusiasts.
SHIPPING & TRANSPORTATION
🚀 This ship sails on pure ammonia
Image source: Yara Eyde
The Rundown: Norway is set to launch the world's first ammonia-powered container ship, Yara Eyde, by 2026 — aiming to revolutionize maritime transport with a clean energy solution.
Key details:
Yara Eyde will operate in the vital commercial corridor between Norway and Europe, including ports like Oslo, Brevik, and Hamburg.
The project is a collaboration between Yara International's Yara Clean Energy and the North Sea Container Line.
The ship will utilize pure ammonia as fuel, aligning with global efforts to curb CO2 emissions from maritime transport.
Yara International will supply near carbon-free ammonia, supporting the ship's operation.
Why it matters: Yara Eyde represents a strategic move towards sustainable shipping — offering a viable alternative to traditional fuels and demonstrating ammonia's potential as a maritime fuel.
NEW PRODUCTS
😋 Iconoir- An open-source library of icons for designers (link)
🎥 ShortVideoGen- Text-to-video generator with audio using AI (link)
🔮 Orba- Successfully convert web visitors with AI (link)
🌦️ Travel Weather Map- Access to global weather by month (link)
📆 Vimcal- Calendar app on steroids. Assists users in scheduling and organizing events efficiently (link)
🎥 Descript- A powerful all-in-one video and podcast editing tool using AI (link)
🌖 MoonBeam- A long-form writing AI assistant to never write from scratch again (link)
📊 Sheet AI- Put AI in your Google Sheets (link)
🦄 Screen Story- Create video demos, tutorials, education videos, gifs, and promo videos (link)
🏗 Softr- Create business apps with no-code and AI (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
SNIPPETS
X is soliciting sales of recycled user handles for $50,000, forming a dedicated team to manage a potential marketplace.
Lucid offers up to $10,000 off on Air EVs in a limited-time sale to reduce inventory amid slow demand.
Google cancels $15 billion worth of Bay Area campus projects with Lendlease to optimize real estate and cut costs.
Apple is preparing a watchOS update to address battery life issues on various Apple Watch models.
A leaked benchmark also hints that Apple's M3 Pro CPU may only show marginal speed improvements over the M2 Pro.
Study of mummified baboons links ancient Arabian worship and hints at a single historic trading region in present-day Eritrea.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster B1058 has made history with 18 flights, including launching astronauts into orbit for the first time in 9 years.
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🤖 The Beatles release final song... using AI
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The Beatles just released one final single together — made possible by AI that separated John Lennon's isolated vocals from a long-lost demo.
Did you have an AI-assisted reunion from the world’s most popular band on your 2023 bingo card? Let’s dive in…
In today’s AI rundown:
The Beatles' release final song revived with AI
Study: AI diagnoses rare cancer better than biopsies
10 New AI tools
Customize Midjourney art with Style Tuner
3 Quick AI updates
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
MUSIC & AI
🎵 The Beatles' release final song revived with AI
Image source: The Beatles
The Rundown: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr just released a new Beatles single featuring AI-generated John Lennon, completed using machine learning to isolate individual tracks from an unreleased demo.
The details:
"Now and Then" stalled in the 1990s because analog tape technology couldn't separate Lennon's blended piano and vocals.
New AI audio processing extracted Lennon's parts to allow McCartney and Starr to overdub new bass, drums, guitar, and strings.
The result features all four members' performances, with McCartney calling it ‘likely’ the final new collaboration featuring the full band.
The relevance: While many may be uneasy with AI’s creep into the music industry, the ability to unlock new collaborations and revive old material is quite the feat. Listen to The Beatle’s new single ‘Now and Then’ here.
TOGETHER WITH MASTERWORKS
🔥 Billionaires wanted it, but 54,578 everyday investors got it first… and profited
The Rundown: When incredibly valuable assets come up for sale, it's typically the wealthiest people who end up taking home an amazing investment. But not always…
Masterworks is taking on the billionaires at their own game, buying up and fractionalizing s prized blue-chip artworks for its investors. When Masterworks sells a painting – like the 16 it's already sold – investors reap their portion of the profits.
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MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
🩻 Study: AI diagnoses rare cancer better than biopsies
Image source: BBC
The Rundown: Researchers used an AI tool to analyze scans and grade the severity of a rare abdominal cancer, sarcoma, providing significantly more accurate diagnostic results than current biopsy methods.
The details:
The algorithm detected subtle imaging patterns invisible to radiologists to assess cancer aggressiveness.
The tool graded 89 patients' sarcomas from scans with a whopping 82% accuracy— while standard biopsy analysis came in at just 44%.
Researchers anticipate improved diagnosis, risk stratification, and personalized treatment recommendations.
Identifying hard-to-see indicators undetectable to the human eye highlights AI's potential for early cancer detection.
Our thoughts: This is another incredible example of a cancer-related AI breakthrough of the many we’ve seen over this past year. It’s clear that the tech is revolutionizing the detection and treatment of one of the world’s leading causes of death.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
TRENDING TOOLS
🎁 Growthschool- Join their ChatGPT & AI workshop to master AI tools and ChatGPT hacks. Free for the first 100 registrants!*
⚫️ Dot- An intelligent guide designed to help you remember, organize, and navigate your life (link)
🦁 Brave Leo- Ask questions, get answers, with unparalleled privacy right in your browser (link)
🌅 BeforeSunset AI Teams- AI-powered workspace: plan & execute together (link)
🤖 CoPilot.Live- Your personalized AI assistant (link)
💻 Avataar's Creator- Gen-AI powered platform to build 3D stories and videos (link)
⚙️ Bardeen- A no-code automation tool to enhance workflow productivity (link)
📚 Morise AI- Reads your videos and generates everything in seconds (link)
💼 Cody- An AI assistant for business (link)
📝 Copy AI- Generate content, such as blog headlines, emails, and social media posts using AI (link)
⭕️ Circleback- Never take notes again with AI-driven meeting notes (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
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AI TRAINING
🎨 Customize Midjourney art with Style Tuner
Want more control over Midjourney? With the platform’s new ‘Style Tuner’ update, you can get a customized look tailored to your preferences.
Try the new feature out for yourself by following the steps below:
Generate a Style Tuner: Using the /tune command, type the prompt you’d like to see various options for to start training. Choose 16, 32, 64 or 128 pairs — this is how many outputs you’ll have to select from.
Select Your Preferred Styles. Click your favorite image in each pair, or select the grid format to choose from the overall list. This tunes the AI to your visual preferences.
Get Your Custom Code. Based on your selections, Midjourney generates a unique style code. Copy this code from the bottom of the page.
Add the Code to Your Prompts. Paste your prompt and style code — example: a cartoon robot reading a newspaper --style [code]. This stylizes future images based on your selections in the Style Tuner — you can also combine multiple styles for varied outputs.
Happy creating!
QUICK HITS
🤖 Brave’s AI assistant safeguards your data
Browser Brave just introduced Leo, an AI assistant that secures user privacy. The bot discards chats immediately and needs no login, with a $15 per month premium version available that integrates with Anthropic’s Claude Instant —Anthropic’s ‘state-of-the-art’ AI assistant.
🧪 Ex-Google CEO Schmidt bets big on AI scientists
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly bankrolling the nonprofit Future House and its mission to build AI that can analyze research and make discoveries. The moonshot aim — AI conducting experiments and reaching conclusions independently.
🧠 Cohere debuts Embed v3 for search
AI startup Cohere released a new model called Embed v3, a major industry upgrade for querying noisy real-world data. The release also significantly boosts retrieval for AI writing tools, while the model’s multilingual version supports 100+ languages for searching across dialects.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Product Support Specialist at OpenAI
Software Engineer, C++ at Shield AI
Product Marketing Manager at Robust Intelligence
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🤖 The Beatles release final song... using AI
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The Beatles just released one final single together — made possible by AI that separated John Lennon's isolated vocals from a long-lost demo.
Did you have an AI-assisted reunion from the world’s most popular band on your 2023 bingo card? Let’s dive in…
In today’s AI rundown:
The Beatles' release final song revived with AI
Study: AI diagnoses rare cancer better than biopsies
10 New AI tools
Customize Midjourney art with Style Tuner
3 Quick AI updates
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
MUSIC & AI
🎵 The Beatles' release final song revived with AI
Image source: The Beatles
The Rundown: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr just released a new Beatles single featuring AI-generated John Lennon, completed using machine learning to isolate individual tracks from an unreleased demo.
The details:
"Now and Then" stalled in the 1990s because analog tape technology couldn't separate Lennon's blended piano and vocals.
New AI audio processing extracted Lennon's parts to allow McCartney and Starr to overdub new bass, drums, guitar, and strings.
The result features all four members' performances, with McCartney calling it ‘likely’ the final new collaboration featuring the full band.
The relevance: While many may be uneasy with AI’s creep into the music industry, the ability to unlock new collaborations and revive old material is quite the feat. Listen to The Beatle’s new single ‘Now and Then’ here.
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MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
🩻 Study: AI diagnoses rare cancer better than biopsies
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The Rundown: Researchers used an AI tool to analyze scans and grade the severity of a rare abdominal cancer, sarcoma, providing significantly more accurate diagnostic results than current biopsy methods.
The details:
The algorithm detected subtle imaging patterns invisible to radiologists to assess cancer aggressiveness.
The tool graded 89 patients' sarcomas from scans with a whopping 82% accuracy— while standard biopsy analysis came in at just 44%.
Researchers anticipate improved diagnosis, risk stratification, and personalized treatment recommendations.
Identifying hard-to-see indicators undetectable to the human eye highlights AI's potential for early cancer detection.
Our thoughts: This is another incredible example of a cancer-related AI breakthrough of the many we’ve seen over this past year. It’s clear that the tech is revolutionizing the detection and treatment of one of the world’s leading causes of death.
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AI TRAINING
🎨 Customize Midjourney art with Style Tuner
Want more control over Midjourney? With the platform’s new ‘Style Tuner’ update, you can get a customized look tailored to your preferences.
Try the new feature out for yourself by following the steps below:
Generate a Style Tuner: Using the /tune command, type the prompt you’d like to see various options for to start training. Choose 16, 32, 64 or 128 pairs — this is how many outputs you’ll have to select from.
Select Your Preferred Styles. Click your favorite image in each pair, or select the grid format to choose from the overall list. This tunes the AI to your visual preferences.
Get Your Custom Code. Based on your selections, Midjourney generates a unique style code. Copy this code from the bottom of the page.
Add the Code to Your Prompts. Paste your prompt and style code — example: a cartoon robot reading a newspaper --style [code]. This stylizes future images based on your selections in the Style Tuner — you can also combine multiple styles for varied outputs.
Happy creating!
QUICK HITS
🤖 Brave’s AI assistant safeguards your data
Browser Brave just introduced Leo, an AI assistant that secures user privacy. The bot discards chats immediately and needs no login, with a $15 per month premium version available that integrates with Anthropic’s Claude Instant —Anthropic’s ‘state-of-the-art’ AI assistant.
🧪 Ex-Google CEO Schmidt bets big on AI scientists
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly bankrolling the nonprofit Future House and its mission to build AI that can analyze research and make discoveries. The moonshot aim — AI conducting experiments and reaching conclusions independently.
🧠 Cohere debuts Embed v3 for search
AI startup Cohere released a new model called Embed v3, a major industry upgrade for querying noisy real-world data. The release also significantly boosts retrieval for AI writing tools, while the model’s multilingual version supports 100+ languages for searching across dialects.
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⚡️ Scientists develop self-healing human tissue
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Scientists just created a new hydrogel called Trpzip, with self-healing, moldable, and antimicrobial properties ideal for 3D printing human tissue.
Could this customizable material put us on a path to growing cells on demand? Let’s get into it…
In today’s tech rundown:
Scientists develop new material for human tissue growth
Researchers discover process to create fuel from C02
10 New products
7 quick stories
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
BIOMATERIALS
❤️🩹 Scientists develop new material for human tissue growth
Image source: UW Sydney
The Rundown: Researchers at the University of New South Wales have developed a new hydrogel material called Trpzip, which has self-healing and antimicrobial properties that could help revolutionize lab-grown human tissue.
The details:
Trpzip is made from short peptide building blocks and can mimic natural tissue properties while preventing bacterial infections.
The material is self-healing, re-forming after being damaged or expelled from a syringe — making it ideal for 3D bioprinting.
Early tests show it can effectively culture patient tissue, acting as an efficient replacement for Matrigel, derived from mouse tumors.
The relevance: A synthetic option for tissue generation that is both cheaper and more uniform could open brand new doors for scientific research and commercial use — while decreasing reliance on animal testing in the process.
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ENERGY INNOVATIONS
💡 Researchers discover process to create fuel from C02
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The Rundown: MIT and Harvard researchers just developed a process to convert CO2 into formate — a stable fuel that can store energy long-term and power homes.
The details:
The process converts CO2 gas into solid formate with over 90% efficiency — avoiding inefficient heating in traditional methods.
Formate is nontoxic, nonflammable, and easy to store long-term without degradation, unlike hydrogen or methanol.
The solid formate powder dissolves in water to power a fuel cell, comparable to hydrogen storage but easier.
The relevance: Converting CO2 into a stable, safe fuel unlocks major potential — and could eventually provide households with a reliable, emissions-free energy source.
NEW PRODUCTS
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SNIPPETS
Apple's revenue declined for the fourth straight quarter despite record iPhone and services sales, as weak Mac and iPad sales preceded upcoming new product launches.
Amazon allegedly destroyed evidence related to anti-competitive practices before an FTC antitrust probe, which charges the company with manipulating search results and fees to undermine rivals.
Matic released a new robot vacuum that creates detailed home maps without sending data to the cloud while promising human-like cleaning.
DoorDash is testing pop-up warnings for customers who don't tip that their food delivery may be delayed, aiming to incentivize tipping amid declining gratuity rates.
Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against an AI app that used her likeness and voice without permission to advertise its services.
Uber and Lyft will reportedly pay $328 million for "cheating drivers out of earnings" in New York through improper deductions and withholding benefits.
Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow, according to Elon Musk — a key milestone for the service which has been a major economic driver of SpaceX's soaring $150 billion valuation.
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🤖 Apple's wearable AI tech!
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Apple is leaning heavily into AI for advanced health tracking — with boosted Apple Watch monitoring, "hearing aid" AirPods, and more.
Is the dawn of a new era in smart health devices about to begin? Let’s get to it.
In today’s AI rundown:
Apple bets on AI for next-gen health monitoring
Nations come together on AI safety at historic UK summit
7 New AI tools
Co-author an original novel with ChatGPT
3 Quick AI updates
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
APPLE
🍎 Apple bets on AI for next-gen health monitoring
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The Rundown: Apple reportedly plans to launch advanced health monitoring powered by AI for its Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as paid health coaching services in 2024.
The details:
Apple Watch will gain sensors and algorithms to detect conditions like hypertension and sleep apnea without dedicated devices.
Apple aims to leverage AI speech analysis and audio tuning to enable AirPods to serve as hearing aids and provide hearing tests.
A new subscription service will offer personalized workout and nutrition recs, powered by users' health data and AI models.
Our thoughts: AI healthcare tech is advancing at an astonishing rate — and in a couple of years, it feels like NOT wearing a smart AI device like an Apple Watch, WHOOP, etc. will be a completely unnecessary health risk.
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AI REGULATION
🌎 Nations come together on AI safety at historic UK summit
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The Rundown: The United States, the EU, China, and over 25 countries signed a declaration to collectively govern AI risks on day 1 of U.K. Prime Minister Rushi Sunak’s AI safety summit, marking a milestone in oversight.
The details:
China was included in this first major West-led effort on AI safety, agreeing to increased collaboration.
The ‘Bletchley Declaration’ lays the groundwork for joint risk assessment and policies to ensure safe, ethical AI development.
Critics question if geopolitical rivals can truly cooperate on AI — but the initial willingness signals some common ground.
Elon Musk, who attended the AI Safety Summit, stated he believes AI is 80% likely beneficial and 20% dangerous.
The relevance: This historic step (especially the inclusion of both the U.S. and China together) gives hope that shared AI risks can unite competing powers. But turning ideals into action remains a challenge ahead.
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AI TRAINING
✍️ Co-author an original novel with ChatGPT
Want to make your author dreams come true? Let your creative ideas come to life by collaborating with ChatGPT to help you write an engaging book.
Create the Blueprint: Prompt ChatGPT to generate a captivating title, summary, and chapter outline for your novel based on your chosen genre or topic.
Write the first draft: Have ChatGPT compose the first chapter based on your outline. Then, review it to ensure it aligns with your vision before having the AI write the next chapter. Repeat for each subsequent chapter.
Writing and Review: As you progress, ChatGPT will use vivid language and rich detail to build an immersive world and compelling characters. Make sure the tone and style stay consistent throughout.
Once the initial draft is complete, polish the narrative, tweak character development, and refine the prose.
Remember, ChatGPT’s text is far from perfect, but its brainstorming is massively beneficial in helping you get past the ‘blank slate‘ problem!
QUICK HITS
💼 LinkedIn's AI job hunter arrives
LinkedIn began rolling out an AI-powered "job seeker coach" for premium members, alongside an announcement of surpassing one billion users on the site. The tool aims to match job candidates with openings, prep for interviews, and more — and comes as AI and a potential recession raise hiring anxiety.
👁️ GPT-V API access coming soon?
If you’re hoping for API access to ChatGPT’s latest voice and image capabilities, you may not have to wait much longer. OpenAI Head of Dev Relations Logan Kilpatrick tweeted “soon”, fueling speculation of an announcement at the company’s Dev Day on Nov. 6.
🌦️ Google's MetNet-3 AI improves weather forecasts
Google just released MetNet-3, an AI model that makes highly accurate 24-hour weather forecasts. Google claims MetaNet-3 outperforms the top traditional physics-based models, with the upgrade now live across Google’s weather-related products.
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