📈 How are companies using AI?

➜ How Is Uber Using AI? Ever wanted to ask Uber’s team directly? Well, now's your chance! Dharmin Parikh, Head of Product Management, and Dhruv Ghulati, Applied AI Product, are joining our live-streamed podcast. I’m really excited for this session. Host: Krystian Bergmann, our AI Consulting Lead. Don’t miss out – it’s tomorrow! 

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➜ What Can YCombinator Tell Us About The Future of AI? 247 companies presented at demo day at YC W24. Popular categories with AI are: Voice Agents (6), ChatGPT For Business (5), Video Generation (4). Surprising startups are on the list too, including defensive AI detector.
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➜ New Generative AI Strategy for Best Buy. This summer, Best Buy is launching a generative AI assistant to handle customer inquiries on the website, app, and through its phone support line. The new strategy was announced during reported layoffs that impacted customer support operations. Coincidence?

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➜ Amazon on AI Bets. If you’ve missed the news about Amazon’s $4 billion investment in Anthropic, CNBC caught up with Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, to discuss AI bets and the reasoning behind this investment.

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➜ Intercom Goes All-In with AI. Besides launching Fin AI Copilot (a deep, personal AI assistant for every human support agent), Intercom came up with a new slogan, 'AI-first CS,' and rebranded the website. I was surprised a bit, but… see for yourself!

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➜ AI for New Music Genres. As if creating songs from prompts is not enough, a startup Suno is inviting fans to roll the dice (well, click a button) and get a taste of entirely new music genres. Korean cabaret, rockabilly sitar, slushwave dancehall, big band alt-country and all that jazz. 

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➜ AI-powered Badass Security Camera. A startup from Slovenia has shown Eve, an AI-powered home security system which fires paintballs and tear gas pellets at intruders. Let’s hope face recognition works. 

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💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ Debunking Devin. Carl, a seasoned software engineer with 35 years of experience and host of the "Internet of Bugs" YouTube channel, has posted a 25-minute video addressing the debugging challenges and misleading practices associated with AI software engineer, Devin. Too much hype?

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➜ Career Transition. Looking to move from software engineering to AI/ML engineering? An interesting thread on Ask Hacker News provides valuable links to books and courses that can help. Check it out on

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➜ AI Pair Programming. Paul Gaulthier has developed Aider, a command-line tool that allows you to pair programs with GPT-3.5/GPT-4. Aider can edit code in your local git repository and commit changes with sensible messages.

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➜ OpenAI Custom Voices Behind The Scenes. OpenAI developers have shared insights from a small-scale preview of Voice Engine (VE), a model designed to create custom voices using a text input and a single 15-second audio sample. The results generate natural-sounding speech that closely mimics the original speaker.

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➜ Your Own AI Broadway Musical. Users on X are experimenting with Udio, a new AI music startup that produces impressively high-quality audio. Imagine creating "Dune the Broadway Musical"!

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➜ Gemini 1.5 Tested. Alex Volkov has uploaded over two hours of raw audio to Gemini and posed a direct question. In less than 30 seconds, Gemini processed 250,000 tokens of audio, extracting valuable insights. Impressive!

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➜ Meta’s AI Chief On LLMs. Despite the progress in large language models, Meta's AI chief asserts they will never reach human-level intelligence. Or will they?

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