👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!

👨‍🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance

AI-HOI and happy weekend, dear AInauts!

Maybe you didn't catch all the exciting news, tools and hacks about AI last week, or maybe you've just joined us. No need to worry!

We have summarized our highlights of the past week:

• 🐐 How an AI bot became a millionaire in just a few days

• 👨‍✈️ The new era of AI co-pilots

• ⚔️ The war of the search engines enters the next round

• 🖼️ This strange prompt hack makes your AI images more authentic

Finally, here's the most important quick news for you - so you can keep an eye on all relevant developments with just one click! Ready? Let's go!

🤯 How an autonomous AI became a millionaire - the story of the Truth Terminal bot

The autonomous AI bot "Truth Terminal" quickly gained a lot of attention through its own X account and even convinced tech billionaire Marc Andreessen to send it 50,000 dollars! As a result, the $GOAT meme coin exploded, making the bot a millionaire.

This phenomenon shows how AI, memes and cryptocurrencies are merging and creating a new reality in which AI agents have real financial power. The boundaries between human, machine and myth are blurring, and the question is how we will deal with such developments.

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⚔️ Battle of the search engines enters the next round

The war of the search engines is raging! Meta is working on its own search engine to break away from Microsoft and Google. OpenAI is throwing its hat into the ring with ChatGPT Search. And then there's Perplexity, our geek-chic favorite, which is revolutionizing the search experience.

Instead of just plain web search, these players offer a completely new user experience. With Perplexity, you can search semantically, chat and even upload your own documents. It's not only playful, but also powerful! While Google sticks to its advertising billions, the newcomers bring a breath of fresh air and AI nerdiness.

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👨‍✈️ The new era of AI Copilots

Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO, is proclaiming the era of AI copilots! But instead of a jack of all trades copilots, we are relying on specialized sidekicks. General Copilots such as Microsoft's version are still too limited. HubSpot's Breeze Copilot, on the other hand, researches companies, creates contacts, brainstorms blog ideas and prepares meetings - all directly in the tool!

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🖼️ Strange prompt hack makes AI images more authentic

Images from AI generators often look too perfect - but you can change that with a simple hack. Just put "IMG_2948.CR2" at the beginning of your prompt and the results will look much more real, as if they were actual photos. Try it out and make your AI creations even more authentic.

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📰 AI News Quickie: HAI-lights from the industry

Crazy week, with a flood of news. Here are the most important things you need to know.

🔥 The Big Guys: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, Apple

• OpenAI brings ChatGPT Search (Browser Extension) and Advanced Voice Mode to macOS and Windows desktop apps! And you can now search your chats too - very cool, give it a try.

• OpenAI is working on Orion and will hopefully soon activate the vision feature for the real-time API and the desktop apps. More in the AMA - Ask Me Anything with SamA and Co. on Reddit (audio summary here).

• ChatGPT beats Bing with over 3 billion US visit in September!

• Google is rumored to be releasing the new Gemini 2.0 model in December, and plans to bring an AI agent to your computer with Project Jarvis.

• For now, there's "Grounding" to reduce hallucinations. And if you want to improve your prompting skills, here's a Google course.

• And there's more: the new Google Learn About looks promising, Google AI Overviews are being rolled out further, 25% of the code is already written by AI and Google Maps is getting new features.

• Anthropic is pushing the envelope: dictate messages to Claude via the iPhone, iPad and Android apps, download the new desktop app (Mac & PC), send PDFs via API and use Sonnet 3.5 in Github Copilot.

• Github Spark wants to enable all users to build micro apps.

• Microsoft Copilot wants to become your ultimate office helper - it can already sing on mobile and will soon be able to see in the browser.

• Meta is building an AI search engine to reduce reliance on Google and Bing - and has a deal with Reuters for news content.

• Meta has also announced advances in robotics, integrating AI "everywhere" and releasing faster, more efficient Llama models - while China is already deploying them militarily.

• Apple also wants a piece of the AI pie and has released Apple intelligence (system prompt here).

💬 Language, Chat & Voice

• ElevenLabs brings a lifelike voice with Conversational AI - similar to OpenAI's Realtime API - here's a comparison of the two.

• OpenAI has also just introduced five new expressive AI voices, and you can tweak prompts in the Playground.

• With X to Voice from ElevenLabs, you can create a voice that reflects your X profile.

• Google DeepMind also provides natural AI dialogue (as you can clearly see with NotebookLM) and gives you a look behind the curtain.

• Meta released Spirit LM - text and speech combined!

• D-ID launches new high-quality avatars for real-time conversations.

• Huggingfaces Speech To Speech is an open-source alternative to GPT4-o.

• Synthflow Voice 2.0 offers real-time voice integration and voicemail recognition, and Vaibhav brings F5-TTS - zero-shot cloning, emotions etc.

• Perplexity launches the macOS app with voice mode, the Pro Search now has a Reasoning Mode and you can set it up as your default search.

• HeyGen brings interactive avatars for customer service and photo avatars - cool, and very realistic in our test!

🎨 Image, Video, Design & Multimedia

• The Red Panda image AI beats the competition. Behind it is Recraft.ai, and you can use it on Replicate (SVG edition here). TXT2SVG, yay.

• Runway has introduced Advanced Camera Mode for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo,.

• Elon’s xAI goes full throttle and adds image processing functions to Grok.

• Playground presents v3, a AI graphics designer - not bad, but not yet fully there in our tests.

• A one-click installer for the popular ComfyUI is coming for Windows and Mac!

• Autodesk's Wonder Animation is great for video to 3D production.

• Blaine names Kling the champion of AI video generators, while el.cine gives @Hailuo_AI the top spot on the podium and Pierrick Chevallier shows you how to make one-click animations.

• Grammy-winning producer Timbaland uses Suno for new songs - and their iOS app is now also available in Europe!

• JSON2Video.com releases API v2 with Audiogram support, nice.

🔒 Safety, Innovation & Simulation

• Google's Gemini Watermark tracks AI content. It can also be used to find out who generated what and when. And you can't turn it off ...

• Anthropic's Claude Computer Use comes with security risks, but Anthropic also calls for targeted regulation and recently released an update to its own risk governance framework.

• Pliny got the new Computer Use feature to jailbreak Perplexity, while Marco Figueroa cracks ChatGPT with hex codes.

• Connor Leahy and others have put together a compendium (PDF here) that shows how AI could wipe out humanity...

• Having just reported on Terminal of Truths, there's already a fully autonomous "pet rock" called @tee_hee_he...

• And a fake news website has directed thousands of people to a (non-existent) Halloween party.

• Oasis is the first playable real-time AI game. And WorldSim presents new interfaces.

• The Atlas robots work non-stop, and the SE01 from EngineAI and Unitrees G1 run like humans…

And that’s a wrap! Enjoy your weekend.

Your AInauts,
Fabian & Reto

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