Elon to Raise $40b, Productivity Paradox, and How to Use AI to Lie to Your Kids

Tools, news, and other stuff from around the artificial intelligence world.

Hey y’all!

I hope you’re doing well as we cross halfway into this week!

There’s so much going on and so little time to review, but, try to stay up to date as best you can — you don’t want to miss anything!

• MIT’s general purpose bot.

• Cohere’s new AI-powered search.

• Free courses in Data Analytics.

• Elon says we need to replace our skulls.

• New model to predict human behavior.

• Jensen believes in a future of much more energy usage.

• Runway is not an AI company.

• Google open sourcing watermark tool.

• AI Rube Goldberg machine.

• Claude can analyze code built-in.

• AI videos from your Shopify photos.

• The AI productivity paradox.

• Radio station in Poland fired it’s hosts and replaced them with AI.

• Elon to raise $40b for xAI.

• Lying to your kids is useful via AI.

• Salesforce and Benioff on abundance. So does Meta.

• Unleashing AI on mobile via PyTorch.

• How one person uses Cursor to code.

• OpenAI to use AMD chips too.

• Robert Downey Junior has thoughts on his likeness being used in the future.

And that’s it folks! Have a great rest of your day!

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— Summer