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Tuesday’s Top Story: Did you know that only 35% of all companies use AI in some form, but a staggering 91.5% of leading businesses invest in AI continuously?

Getting ahead of the AI curve—even for companies outside the tech industry—is vital to gaining a competitive edge.

Keep reading for ten ways AI can help leaders make better decisions.

Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

• 🤖 Hollywood x AI

• ✨ Hacking Midjourney for Insane Ad Creative

• 📰 News Hot Off The Press

• 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools

TOOL HIGHLIGHT

TODAY’S FEATURED TOOL

🖥️ Read AI

Read AI is a smart, automated tool designed to make meetings more efficient and effective. It offers AI-generated summaries, transcripts, playback, and highlights of meetings without requiring any software installation or credit card. The tool integrates with your calendar and automatically joins selected meetings to take notes.

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TRENDING AI STORY

Hollywood x AI

As AI-powered video generation tools like Runway's Gen-2 and OpenAI's Sora gain traction in Hollywood, the entertainment industry is grappling with the potential impact on jobs and creative processes. While some see these technologies as cost-saving opportunities, others worry about the displacement of traditional filmmaking roles and the challenges of maintaining the human touch in storytelling.

📫️ The details:

• Runway and OpenAI are leading the charge in text-to-video AI, with Sora's advanced capabilities in generating detailed, dynamic scenes that exceed previous tools like Runway's Gen-2.

• Hollywood is divided on the implications, with some executives excited about the cost-saving potential, while others fear the disruption to jobs and the creative process.

• Concerns include the impact on VFX artists, sound engineers, and other roles, as well as the ability of AI to capture the essence of human storytelling and emotional connection with audiences.

🧠 Our thoughts:

This AI-powered video revolution is a double-edged sword for Hollywood.

On one hand, the cost-saving and efficiency gains could be a game-changer, allowing for more ambitious and visually stunning productions.

On the other hand, the displacement of traditional roles and the potential loss of the human touch in storytelling are valid concerns that the industry will need to address.

As these technologies continue to evolve, finding the right balance between automation and artistry will be crucial for the future of filmmaking.

(Read more →)

MORE DEVELOPMENTS

📹 YouTube is testing an AI-driven feature that allows some YouTube Premium subscribers to quickly navigate to the most-watched parts of videos within the YouTube app.

🍎 Apple's AI research suggests the company is working to improve Siri's capabilities significantly, potentially integrating advanced features like improved language understanding, task completion, and creative abilities.

📑 Researchers have found that providing large language models (LLMs) with many examples directly in the prompt can be more effective than fine-tuning, especially as models handle extremely long input texts.

QUICK BITS

An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war (link)

DocuSign acquires AI-powered contract management firm Lexion for $165m (link)

Jack Dorsey leaves Bluesky (link)

Warren Buffett says AI scamming will be the next big ‘growth industry’ (link)

Florida bans lab-grown meat (link)

AI discovers 27,000 asteroids (link)

New AI-Powered Tools for Meta Advertisers (link)

14 Ways to Use AI in Marketing that Actually Work (link)

Humans now share the web equally with bots (link)

If you've made >100 images with Midjourney you can now help us alpha-test image creation (link)

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe and why OpenAI is not a competitor (link)

40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners (link)

Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI (link)

Microsoft readies new AI model (link)

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models (link)

QUICK TIP

AI QUICK TIP

✨ How AI can help leaders make better decisions…

Complex or uncertain scenarios: AI can assess gaps in data and simulate different scenarios to provide clarity on the best course of action.

Help keep you objective: AI can remove emotional bias from decision-making by basing decisions solely on the data at hand.

Quick and efficient data collection: AI can quickly sift through large amounts of data to identify what is and isn't relevant for a business decision.

Save time on repetitive tasks: AI can automate menial tasks, freeing up time for business leaders to focus on more important decisions.

Keeping up with complex data: AI can organize and filter large amounts of data, cataloging it by relevance to help business leaders make informed decisions.

(Read more ways →)

AI TRAINING YOU MISSED

📺 Making AI Music

How To Make AI-Music | Quick Tutorial (link)

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FROM THE WEB

✨ Hacking Midjourney for Insane Ad Creative

If you own a business or work in marketing, then you need to watch this video.

It goes over how you can use AI to generate thousands of ads from one single prompt.

We highly recommend it. (link)

NEW TOOLS

Vectorize - an AI tool designed to turn unstructured data into optimally structured vector search indexes. This technology is built for Retrieval Augmented Generation, meaning it operates on the principle of retrieving and utilizing relevant information to improve AI task performance.

DocsHound - knowledge base software redesigned for the AI age. It allows users to create, publish, and maintain comprehensive documentation that offers a powerful brand impression.

MailGenerator - AI Email Generator and Writer Tool leverages artificial intelligence to swiftly auto-produce personalized, highly-targeted emails, eliminating the need for blank screen staring, and improving overall communication efficiency.

See more of the newly added tools here.

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