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Monday’s Top Story: It looks like it’s official.

OpenAI has signed a deal with Apple, meaning that iPhones (Siri?) may be getting a major upgrade in iOS 18.

Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

• 🤖 Anthropic Launches AI Bots

• ✨ How To Create Your First CustomGPT

• 📰 News Hot Off The Press

• 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members

OpenAI's current board members dispute claims made by former board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley regarding events at the company and the circumstances around Sam Altman's departure as CEO. An external review by law firm WilmerHale found no evidence that AI safety concerns necessitated Altman's replacement.

• The review included interviews with former board members, executives, and advisors, and examined over 30,000 documents.
  

• OpenAI's board says Altman has been forthcoming on all relevant issues and collegial with management.
  

• The company has formed a new Safety Committee and is making additional AI safety commitments.

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Anthropic’s AI now lets you create bots to work for you

Anthropic has launched a new "tool use" feature for its AI chatbot Claude, enabling users to create personalized AI assistants that can automate various tasks by connecting to external APIs.

• Claude's tool use feature allows the creation of AI assistants for tasks like purchasing products, analyzing emails, or providing customer support.
  

• The AI can work with both text and images, enabling applications that process visual data for personalized recommendations.
  

• Anthropic has been beta testing the feature with thousands of customers, with pricing based on the volume of text processed by Claude.

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OpenAI launches EDU version of ChatGPT

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Edu, an affordable version of ChatGPT designed for universities to responsibly deploy AI to students, faculty, researchers, and campus operations. Powered by GPT-4o, it can reason across text and vision and use advanced tools like data analysis.

• ChatGPT Edu includes enterprise-level security, controls, and significantly higher message limits than the free version.
  

• It provides access to GPT-4o, OpenAI's flagship model, and supports advanced capabilities like data analytics, web browsing, document summarization, and building custom GPTs.
  

• Several universities, such as Oxford, Wharton, UT Austin, ASU, and Columbia, have already seen success with ChatGPT Enterprise.

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✨ How To Create A CustomGPT

First, go to chatgpt.com, and in the left side menu, click explore GPTs.

Then click the Green create button.

From there, you’ll see a new screen that looks like this:

You can give your new GPT a picture, name, and description on this new page.

You’ll want to provide your prompt or instructions for the customGPT to follow in the instructions box.

Once you provide the prompt, you can reuse the GPT instead of prompting from scratch like you normally would.

We are filming a video on this soon, but we figured we would give you a quick rundown!

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MORE NEWS

You.com releases Custom AI Bots (link)

Google says they have fixed AI overviews (link)

AI queries are estimated to require 10x the electricity of traditional Google queries," EPRI finds (link)

How AI is affecting 2024 elections (link)

Sony Pictures wants to use generative AI to cut movie production costs (link)

The AI-Generated image hits 44million views in 48 hours (link)

OpenAI Is Rebooting Its Robotics Team (link)

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✨ ElevenLabs releases AI Sound Effects

ElevenLabs has launched an AI-powered tool called Sound Effects that generates realistic sound effects from text descriptions, expanding its offerings beyond AI voices and music.

The tool was developed with Shutterstock, using their licensed audio library to train the AI model.

Sound Effects can generate up to 22 seconds of audio based on user prompts and provides at least four downloadable options per prompt.

The tool is designed to help creators in film, television, video games, and social media quickly and affordably produce immersive soundscapes.

Usage is based on a character count limit, with free users getting 10,000 characters per month and paid tiers offering commercial licenses.

Try it out here (link)

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