AI Meme Generator, Turning Podcasts into Marketing, Self-Driving in the UK

And a few other interesting links for the day.

May 22, 2024

Hello y’all!

Another late-ish newsletter coming at yah. I took a hike in the early AM and I could see the entire city from where I stood — probably 30 to 40 miles of distance.

It’s amazing how small and insignificant we are in comparison to the very things that we build; skyscrapers, sprawls of city and commercial interests litter the world and yet there’s so much space to still work with.

I get the exact same feeling when it comes to AI: We’re going to be building things that extend way beyond anyone one person and we’ll again be reminded how small we really are. I think that’s a good thing.

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer

I suppose this would be a pretty neat future if we all had some really neat techno-suits that we could easily take on and off and that would give us super-human abilities, right? Sign me up.

Military defense startup Anduril has had early discussions to raise what would be one of the largest venture capital rounds of the year so far, seeking about $1.5 billion of fresh funds that would value the company at $12.5 billion or more, two people who have spoken to the company said.
The potential funding round would be an increase from the $8.5 billion valuation at which investors including Valor Equity Partners and Founders Fund valued the company a year and a half ago.

It’s a paywall but that’s all you have to know. Military and AI are big and I can imagine they will be spending some of that cash in those areas.

With this Experts GPT you can create a group chat with expert personalities and bots to discuss any topic.

Stay ahead of the curve with up-to-the-minute updates to the world’s knowledge. Simply search phrases like “Gamestop vs. AMC stock since 5/3/24” or “fed funds rate vs. median sales price for a single family home in Delaware,” and Perplexity will return interactive knowledge cards powered by Tako. (Note: Initially available to users in the United States and in English, with mobile access coming soon.)

Oh. That’s kind of neat.

LemonSpeak turns your podcast into helpful assets that you can use elsewhere for marketing needs and more.

Well, another wearable that’ll allow you to “wear your wisdom” wherever you go.

Well, it seems like by 2026 in the UK they’ll have self-driving cars. I like the idea of job creation though since it’ll create over 38k new jobs too.