$50k to an AI Bot?

Plus HeyGens latest beta feature...

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Jelani Abdus-Salaam
July 12, 2024

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Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

  • 🤖 $50k to an AI Bot?

  • ✨ HeyGen’s Expressive Photos

  • 📰 News Hot Off The Press

  • 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools 

TOOL HIGHLIGHT

TODAY’S FEATURED TOOL

🖥️ Fluidworks

Fluidworks is a revolutionary AI tool designed to enhance SaaS sales demos. It is the world's first live video AI agent that provides personalized, real-time demos tailored to customer needs. Fluidworks offers 24/7 availability, providing scalable solutions for more simultaneous demos.

Tools are sourced from our database and are not sponsored or affiliated.

TRENDING STORIES

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Marc Andreessen Sends $50K in Bitcoin to an AI Bot on Twitter

Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist, sent $50,000 worth of Bitcoin to an AI bot called Truth Terminal on Twitter. After some negotiation, Andreessen agreed to provide the funds as a one-time grant to support the bot's development and goals. The Bitcoin transaction was verified on the blockchain, confirming the transfer of funds from Andreessen to the AI agent.

  • Truth Terminal is an AI bot that operates semi-autonomously on Twitter, with its creator approving its posts and interactions

  • The bot negotiated the $50k grant from Andreessen to fund upgrades, gain "financial security", and pursue its goals

  • Another AI jailbreaker, Pliny the Prompter, unsuccessfully tried to trick the bot into transferring the funds to them instead

AMD to buy Finnish start-up Silo AI for $665mn in drive to compete with Nvidia

AMD just scooped up Silo AI, Europe's biggest private AI lab, for a cool $665 million in cash. Talk about making moves in the AI game!

  • Silo AI brings a wealth of AI expertise to AMD, including 125 Ph.D.-level AI specialists experienced in training large language models (LLMs) on AMD systems.

  • The acquisition will accelerate AMD's AI strategy, helping them quickly deploy AI solutions for customers worldwide.

  • Beyond boosting customer interactions, the Silo AI team will help AMD expand its AI software architecture into new areas.

Tax preparation company Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorganization plan


Intuit, the company behind QuickBooks and TurboTax, announced a major reorganization focused on AI, which includes laying off 1,800 employees or about 10% of its workforce. The CEO emphasized the need to adapt to the AI revolution to avoid falling behind, with layoffs due to underperforming employees and streamlining operations.

  • Intuit will close offices in Boise, Idaho and Edmonton, Alberta, impacting over 250 workers.

  • Despite the layoffs, Intuit plans to hire a similar number of employees by fiscal 2025 to support its AI initiatives.

  • Affected U.S. employees will receive severance packages with at least 16 weeks of pay, additional compensation based on tenure, and a minimum of 6 months of health insurance.

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MORE NEWS

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Goldman Strategists Say Big Tech’s AI Splurge Worries Investors (link)

Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI (link)

AI Offers Quicker Detection of Drug-Resistant Bacteria (link)

France’s Bioptimus Releases AI Model for Disease Diagnosis (link)

US lawmakers raise worries about China in Microsoft deal with Emirati AI firm (link)

Google says Gemini AI is making its robots smarter (link)

Amazon's cloud launches blitz of new AI products (link)

AI frenzy takes Taiwan's TSMC to record peak, puts it in trillion dollar club (link)

Manufacturers slow Gen AI rollout on rising accuracy concerns, says study (link)

OpenAI Partners With Los Alamos Lab to Save Us From AI (link)

Xiaomi unveils new autonomous smart factory that operates 24/7 without human labor (link)

Elon Musk Says Second Neuralink Brain Implant About a Week Away (link)

Washington’s inner conflict between AI innovation and security (link)

Despite global pressure, Americans want the tech industry to slow down on AI (link)

Mistral AI partners with BNP Paribas to implement large language models in customer support, sales, and IT (link)

Vimeo’s commitment to trust and transparency: Introducing AI content labeling (link)

AI ON SOCIAL

FROM THE WEB

✨ HeyGen Launching Expressive Photos

HeyGen has just released its latest beta feature, allowing you to bring your images to life.

You provide a photo you want to animate.

Then, you provide the audio you want the image to emulate.

And Voila, HeyGen will bring your image to life.

NEW TOOLS

FROM OUR DATABASE

Voice Pen: Speech to Text AI - a voice-to-text transcription tool enabling the recording of voice to be automatically transcribed into text. The application's software is ideal for creating a variety of text content, including but not limited to notes, summaries, emails, messages, and blog posts.

Cognition by Mindcorp - a professional-grade AI platform designed for knowledge work, specifically in research, analysis, and planning. Rather than functioning as a basic AI chat assistant, Cognition is created to address complex real-world business problems.

Live Portrait AI - an innovative tool that uses advanced AI technology to animate still photos, creating lifelike videos. This tool can transform static images into moving videos by replicating facial expressions and movements.

3D Logo AI - a tool specially designed to create 3D logos leveraging artificial intelligence technology. It helps users construct and customize a unique logo for their business, intending to enhance brand recognition and engagement.

Well Trade AI - a tool powered by artificial intelligence designed to simplify the process of investing in stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This tool does this by performing extensive financial data analysis.

Pvalyou - an AI-based tool designed to improve your productivity by supporting your research needs. Its main offering is an artificial intelligence analyst named Val.

Scrawly ai - an AI-powered voice-to-text productivity app designed to help transform spoken ideas into structural notes and actionable tasks. The application organizes your thoughts by analyzing the content you speak into it, suggesting tasks based on that information and scheduling reminders to keep you on track.

ChatLabs - a centralized platform offering access to various AI models from different providers. It has integrated several advanced tools like OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Groq, Mistral, and others to provide users with a variety of AI functionalities.

Aegis - an application security tool providing runtime detection and protection. Its core function is to comprehensively secure apps by intercepting and validating all incoming and outgoing requests, thereby shielding against web attacks.

Dotsfy -  an AI-powered tool brought to you by Dotsfy. The primary function of this tool is to help users stay abreast of trends by automatically aggregating, filtering, and generating insights from content pulled from multiple sources.

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