iphone photo. a rabbit sits soaking wet in the rain on dreary rainy day. –ar 5:3

Devin

“Cognition Labs (creator of Devin) is now valued at a $2B The startup is 6 months old and has no revenue AI agents are so back  https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1783165748325818521 

O1

“my new audio engineer is @openinterpreter’s 01  https://twitter.com/bee_human_/status/1783531420394357087

Rabbit

“I ordered DoorDash on the Rabbit R1. It didn’t let me choose what I wanted on the dish I ordered and had it incorrectly delivered to my house instead of work without notifying me or without any UI to change that. A rousing success.” / X – https://twitter.com/SnazzyLabs/status/1783220942812111220

“this is extremely bad going to run a stream soon (tomorrow) explaining why my credentials: I’ve worked on transactional auth/trust systems for 4 years. every day, you trigger auth code I wrote. Like, when you redeem a sonic burger coupon (real), and when you log in to openAI  https://twitter.com/yacineMTB/status/1783190697333457396 

“Transferring trust between systems in a way that doesn’t endanger users is something I’m extremely autistic about – I know the protocols (oauth2/oidc/saml) quite well. what rabbit is doing is irresponsible. this will be the rant to end all rants. streaming x dot com tomorrow” / X – https://twitter.com/yacineMTB/status/1783191699033866282 

“Rabbit r1 @rabbit_hmi 1st impressions after using for a day: -I love the device itself. Color is bright. Feel & size is good in hand. I like the smoothness, and the wheel. Satisfying clicks and whirs. -speaker is really good for being so small. If you change the volume it is…  https://twitter.com/NickADobos/status/1783692128742416554 

Rabbit R1 hands-on: early tests with the $199 AI gadget – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/24138746/rabbit-r1-hands-on-ai-gadget-chatgpt

Siri

Should Apple Kill Siri and Start Over? – MacRumors – https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/18/should-apple-kill-siri/ 

Other Agent News

“AI agents have the ability to fundamentally change the business model of enterprise software. Today, when you build a SaaS product, the primary business model is to sell seats that are tied to the end-users of your service. For “same store” sales, you can essentially grow at the…” / X – https://twitter.com/levie/status/1782808670952440167

“Wendy’s is using FreshAI, their AI to automate drive thru ordering. Wild to see 🤯  https://twitter.com/DThompsonDev/status/1782446072452780347 

“You can finally buy the cheapest open source AI wearable for $39 30 days ago we launched FRIEND 15 minutes ago it was launched on Kickstarter to make the device accessible to you And it has already reached 80%+ of the goal This is how it works: ( 🧵)  https://twitter.com/kodjima33/status/1783556898614292813 

Brave Search is adopting AI to answer your queries | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/brave-search-is-adopting-ai-to-answer-your-queries/

“Introducing  https://twitter.com/play_ht/status/1782563211633651746

Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/eric-schmidt-backed-augment-a-github-copilot-rival-launches-out-of-stealth-with-252m/
Sonnet AI | End-to-end meeting assistant and notetaker – https://www.sonnetai.com/

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AI News #30: Week Ending 04/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 39 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

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