Here’s what’s on the agenda today…

• 🗣️ AI Quote of the Day

• 🔨 FEATURED: AI Tool of the Day

• 🗞️ NEWS: Top “AI Tools” News Story

• 📈 TRENDING: Top AI Tools of the Day

• ❓ Q&A: AI Question and Answer

• 📰 OTHER NEWS: Additional AI News

• 🎓 TEACHING: AI Tools Training & Insights

• 🖼️ IMAGE: AI Image with Prompt

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FEATURED

AI Tool of the Day

Pencil: Make ads twice as fast with generative AI. Halve your costs and double your ad performance - without compromising on quality.

Have you heard about Pencil? It might be something you'd find really useful for your ad campaigns.

Pencil uses generative AI to help you create effective ad creatives, edit them, and launch your campaigns. It’s super easy to use and really cuts down on the time you spend on these tasks.

Here’s what I like about it:

• It makes creating ads so much easier: You can use Pencil’s AI to come up with great ad ideas or tweak them to fit your brand’s look.

• The whole process is simpler: The tools are straightforward, so you can get the hang of creating and launching ads quickly.

• You get useful insights: Pencil gives you real-time feedback on how your ads are performing on platforms like Facebook, Google Display, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, which helps you make better decisions.

Plus, it’s budget-friendly, which is always a bonus.

Imagine having an AI tool that helps you create and manage ads without all the hassle. That’s what Pencil does.

If you’re looking to make your ad creation process smoother and more effective, Pencil could be a game-changer. Give it a try and see how it works for you.

Try it for free - no credit card required

NEWS

Top “AI Tools” News Story

There were a Ton of AI Tool
Advancements last week.

Here’s a brief summary to keep you updated:

1. Anthropic’s Claude Updates:

   • Introduction of “projects,” similar to custom GPTs on ChatGPT.

   • Users can upload files for context and create custom instructions for projects.

   • Features like sharing projects with team members and user interface updates are introduced.

2. Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro:

   • Expanded context window of 2 million tokens.

   • Improved code execution capabilities.

   • Release of open-source Gemma 2 model, outperforming other benchmarks.

   • Google Translate adding 110 new languages.

   • Integration of Gemini in Gmail for summarizing conversations and drafting emails.

3. OpenAI Updates:

   • Advanced voice assistant rollout postponed for further improvements.

   • Introduction of Critic GPT for error-checking in code outputs.

   • Availability of Mac desktop app for all users.

   • Acquisition of remote collaboration platform, Multi.

4. Commercial and Media Integration:

   • Toys R Us created a commercial using OpenAI’s Sora.

   • Time Magazine partnership with OpenAI for content integration.

   • Collaboration with 11 Labs for realistic text-to-speech on Time’s website.

5. New AI Tools and Features:

   • LTX Studio’s new updates for video creation.

   • Character AI’s new feature for phone calls with AI avatars.

   • Synthesia’s expressive AI avatars and new features.

   • New AI video editing tool from Captions.

   • Magnific’s new relight feature for creative image editing.

   • Stability AI appointing a new CEO.

   • Etched’s new specialized chip for Transformers.

6. AI in Music and Legal Issues:

   • Record labels suing AI music tool companies for using copyrighted music.

   • YouTube negotiating AI music deals with major record labels to train AI music tools.

7. Figma and AI Integration:

   • New AI-driven design capabilities in Figma for creating designs from text prompts.

8. New AI Chips and Technologies:

   • Announcement of a new chip by Etched, specialized for Transformers.

   • Grok achieving 400 tokens per second with the Llama 370b model.

9. Social Media and AI:

   • Meta testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram.

10. AI in Sports:

    • Custom AI-generated Olympic feeds with personalized commentaries by AI Al Michaels.

Conclusion: AI developments are advancing at rapid pace. Keep an eye on my newsletter to stay updated with the latest news and tools.

TRENDING

Top AI Tools of the Day

🔘 Bannerbear: helps you and your team auto-generate social media visuals, ecommerce banners, podcast videos and more.

🖼️ Looka AI: create a logo that matches your vision — no design skills required.

🛠️ Cody AI: Elevate productivity with a personalized AI assistant, effortlessly answering queries, streamlining workflows.

🎥 Fliki AI: Helps you create visually captivating videos with professional-grade voiceovers, all in one place.

📃 Decktopus AI: Create presentations, sales sheets, portfolios with AI. Interactive & mobile responsive.

Q&A

AI Questions and Answers

Question

What are some useful web scraping processes? I’m working on some apps to scrape webpages and send it to AI for some type of analysis.

Any public data you think would be useful?

Answer

I have seen a great video on scraping using AI. They did it to scrape competitors website content and they used that to write content. Not sure who’s video, but searching youtube it should come up.

Other lists I have seen are lists of local businesses for those that want to do cold calling or outreach.

Personally I would love a tool that could scrape a list of creators (IG,FB,YT) that are over 50K audience and based in the US. I would want their social account name, link, number of subscribers, email address, any links in the bio/about section and link to the latest video.

I would then pass this to AI. I would get it to take the latest video url and pass it to Claude to write a personalized outreach email to the creator and get it sent out.

I would also like an easy way to scrape news from google news then get AI to summarize it and pass to a google sheet or document.

Also, a way of scraping sports scores and results and putting those into an email to fans or posting to a local website.

Finally, finding local offers and coupons and scraping the business and offer details. Things like ‘Bill’s pizza has 2 for 1’. This can be drone websites or FB groups and get them compiled into a list to use as a lead magnet for local traffic.

Hope that gives you some ideas.

OTHER NEWS

Additional AI Tools News

Goldman Sachs CIO says AI tools may offer superhuman productivity, but ‘I don’t know if they can be superhumanly smart’ (Link)

Mark Zuckerberg says AI competitors try to create 'God’ instead of diverse useful tools (Link)

Connecticut officials look protect skills-based jobs as artificial intelligence expands (Link)

Nvidia's Broadcast AI app turns any room into a studio (Link)

Homeland Security tests AI waters with tools for intel analysts (Link)

TEACHING

AI Tools Training & Insights

5 Cool Websites No One Is Talking About

1. Intellectia

Intellectia AI simplifies investing with AI: access financial data, explore topics, analyze stocks, get recommendations, and share research in one platform.

2. Betterexplained

A website that explains maths concepts in very intuitive way so you don't have to.

3. Photoskop

Interactive photography lessons.

Learn about exposure, depth of field, ISO, white balance.

4. Myscriptfont

Turn your handwriting into a font.

5. Acapella-extractor

This free tools allows you to isolate a person-s voice on any track.

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IMAGE

AI Image with Prompt

Prompt: Spectacular photography, cenital shot, high angle shot of a majestic Australian Shepherd dog sitting on the beach, on its legs, on top of scattered, messy, rounded pebbles and looking towards the photographer. You can see his toes. The color of the pebbles, faithfully, matches the color of the dog's fur. Steve mcurry style