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Google is testing an AI that writes news articles for The New York Times

July 21, 2023

July 21, 2023

Created w/ Midjourney. Prompt: ‘1940s newsroom with robots --ar 16:9’

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: Google is testing an AI tool that writes news articles + OpenAI adds custom instructions for ChatGPT

  • 💰 Funding: Terminal Industries, Portrait Analytics, and Cleanlab

  • 🦾 Tools: This AI tool is simplifying secret management and makes life easier for security teams

📰 Today's Top Stories

(6 min read) (Source: The New York Times)

TLDR: Google is testing an AI-powered tool, Genesis, to generate news content for publishers like The New York Times and The Washington Post.

  • The tool is seen as a personal assistant for journalists, automating some tasks, but some executives find it unsettling and take for granted the effort required to produce accurate news stories.

  • Google emphasizes that the tool is not meant to replace journalists but could offer assistance with headlines and writing styles.

  • News organizations are grappling with the responsible use of AI in newsrooms, as misuse could damage credibility and spread misinformation.

(5 min read) (Source: OpenAI)

TLDR: OpenAI introduces custom instructions for ChatGPT users, allowing them to set specific contexts and preferences for interactions with the chatbot, enhancing personalization.

  • The model considers custom instructions in every conversation, reducing the need for repetitive input, and making interactions more efficient and personalized.

  • Custom instructions also work with plug-ins, suggesting restaurants or flights based on location.

  • The feature is available for Plus plan users, but not in the EU and the U.K. OpenAI uses this data to train its API models for better adaptation to instructions.

(5 min read) (Source: GitHub)

TLDR: GitHub launched Copilot Chat, an AI-powered chatbot for developers to receive real-time guidance and support tailored to their coding projects.

  • All GitHub Copilot for Business users now have access to a limited GitHub Copilot Chat beta. Copilot Chat is contextually aware of the code being typed and provides coding analysis, troubleshooting, and explanations of complex concepts.

  • GitHub claims that Copilot X, including Copilot Chat, can significantly increase developer productivity, enabling tasks that used to take days to be completed in minutes.

💰 Funding Alerts

1. Terminal Industries, a company developing AI platforms to optimize the yard for logistics operators, emerged from stealth and raised $17M in seed funding co-led by 8VC (Jake Medwell, co-founder) and Prologis Ventures (Will O’Donnell, Managing Director), with participation from NFI Ventures, RyderVentures, and others.

  • The funds will be used to further develop their AI platform to address critical challenges in supply chain security, transparency, efficiency, and resiliency.

2. Portrait Analytics, a generative AI platform for investment research and thesis creation, raised $7M in funding led by Unusual Ventures (Lars Albright, General Partner), with participation from .406 Ventures and select hedge fund professionals.

  • Portrait plans to use the funds to accelerate the development of their AI platform for investment analysts, augmenting research bandwidth and providing deep expertise to generate high-conviction investment theses.

3. Cleanlab - an automated solution that enhances the accuracy of enterprise AI, LLM, and analytics solutions - raised $5M in Seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and supported by angel investors including AME Cloud Ventures, Kearny Jackson, Essence VC, Naveen Rao of MosaicML, Freddy Kerrest of Okta, Chuck Dietrich of OpNet, and Avid Duggan of OpNet.

  • Cleanlab automatically finds and fixes errors in structured and unstructured datasets using AI.

  • Cleanlab plans to use the funds to expand operations and launch its flagship product, Cleanlab Studio for Enterprise, which significantly reduces the time and cost needed to deploy data-driven AI solutions.

🦾 Trending Tools

  • Doppler is an AI-powered SecretOps Platform that simplifies secret management for developers and security teams. With easy-to-use tools, collaboration features, and secure syncing across environments, Doppler helps organizations enhance security in their operations.

  • Reply.io is an AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates outreach to create new opportunities at scale. With intuitive features like targeted prospecting, multichannel sequences, automated responses, and meeting booking, Reply.io empowers sales teams to streamline processes, enhance personalization, and drive revenue growth.

  • Anyword’s Performance Boost AI Extension trains ChatGPT, Notion AI, and Canva on your brand and performance data to boost engagement, clicks, and conversions. Optimize marketing results with predictive analytics, performance scoring, and instant copy improvement.

  • Rix.chat is Hashnode's AI-powered search companion for developers. Get quick, accurate, and up-to-date coding knowledge, summarize URLs and GitHub Gists, and experience AI-driven pair programming.

  • ElevateHQ is an AI-powered commission designer for sales teams. Automate commission plans in minutes with prompt-based design. Clean and connect data, type commission rules, and let AI eliminate manual spreadsheets. Easy, efficient, and error-free.

👀 More Reading:

🌎 Fresh Content

1. WIRED’s Gadget Lab podcast dove into all things Elon Musk this week, from xAI to his proposed cage match with Mark Zuckerberg. How could xAI’s proposed truth-seeking AI change the field of deep learning? Where else might generative AI go? All that and more in the podcast below. (Spotify)

Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans

open.spotify.com/episode/5RN0UicRrC3vvuyrYN1g9S

2. Fireship took to answering the burning question on every ChatGPT Plus user's mind: is GPT-4 really getting dumber? They tested GPT-4’s performance against Google’s PaLM models and Meta’s new open-source Llama 2. (YouTube)

🧠 Prompts

Harness ChatGPT's potential to devise a blueprint for your business's digital transformation. This prompt guides you in creating a thorough plan, from assessing your current digital readiness to implementing new technologies and measuring the success of your digital initiatives. By providing specific details about your business, you enable ChatGPT to tailor a roadmap that caters to your particular requirements, offering valuable insights for your digital journey.

Digital Evolution Strategist

  • Prompt: "Take on the role of a digital transformation strategist, could you assist me in brainstorming an extensive plan for the digital evolution of my business? This should encompass an evaluation of our existing digital preparedness, a blueprint for incorporating digital solutions, and mechanisms to track the success of our efforts. What do you need to know about my industry and company operations to start?"

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