A fashion photoshoot of a runway look inspired by travel agents. A large screen displays the word “Agents” –ar 4:3 –style raw
Microsoft Copilot News
“Nice to see Microsoft listening to AI Recall feedback, making MUCH needed changes: 1. Recall will now be opt-in (vs. previously opt-out with users being enrolled by default) 2. Local database is now encrypted (vs. previously unencrypted in plain text) 3. Biometric authentication
“The narrative around Windows Recall has snowballed into a major PR disaster. People don’t trust Microsoft, and that means features like Recall aren’t welcome in the eyes of many Windows users. EDITORIAL:
“Microsoft launched Copilot+ PCs, an AI-first specification for a line of Windows computers featuring new generative and search functions. The first Copilot+ machines will use Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. Learn more in #TheBatch:
Other Agent News
“Check out this webinar on June 12th, where our own @RLanceMartin will chat about the LangChain x Groq integration and how to build an LLM agent app with code, alongside a great crew from @GroqInc @langflow_ai!”
“Here is the full code and tutorial of the AI assistant I built. It listens to you and uses your webcam to see the world around you. The end result feels magic. it’s only 168 lines of code! I explain everything I did in this video:
“Devin is no longer the only AI Software Engineer. @DatabuttonHQ just launched another one, and you can sign up for it right now. When I started building software, it took me weeks to build what I can do today in a few minutes. This is nuts! Here is how you can check it out:
Asana Unveils AI Teammates to Tackle Complex Workflows and Elevate Teamwork • Asana, Inc.
“Useful AI Agents are here! 🤖 One highly manual task in developing a potential client list is to go through each potential company/contact and do research on their industry, size, funding, team, sentiment, and more. Lutra can do this automatically for you. The data is often all”
“🚨New DeepLearning course: AI agents in LangGraph LangGraph is an extension of LangChain for building agent & multi-agent systems. I believe its the best way to build agents for a few reasons: 🔀Controllability 🧠Memory 🫂Novel UX paradigms Little 🧵: 🔀Controllability
Hi, AI: Our Thesis on AI Voice Agents | Andreessen Horowitz
“In an interview with The Verge, Zoom founder Eric Yuan said that ‘digital twin’ AI avatars will eventually attend Zoom meetings on the user’s behalf We’re headed into a strange world where everyone will have AI agents/avatars that communicate with other AI avatars/agents
“Watch the benefits of @Google Gemini’s gigantic 1 million token context window in action! In this quick notebook, we show Gemini built into a LlamaIndex agent attempting to answer a multi-part question from a set of complicated, heterogeneous documents. The longer the context
“Add AI agents and NPCs to your @Apple Vision Pro games and experiences with our AVP module. Inworld’s AI agents react dynamically to gestures, text, voice, gaze and more – creating more immersive gameplay and interactions. Learn more:
Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case – The Verge
How to build a DOA product: Humane AI Pin founders banned internal criticism | Ars Technica
Meta’s WhatsApp Is Adding a New AI Assistant for Businesses – Bloomberg
“Ask your dentist about AI. First AI-generated post that I’ve shared that I remember. If it weren’t for the “Automated” tag, probably because @askniah_ was honest, which I appreciate, I wouldn’t be able to tell this wasn’t done by a human. At least it not longer is freaking”
“Niah: the AI assistant that’s changing the game for dentists. Visit
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings – The Verge
Another agent/app…. With a lot of vague promises and a huge waiting list.
“What makes you feel invincible? Ask NOX. early access:
“Just hosted the world’s first Personal AI meetup! (where recording is opt out instead of opt in) It’s clear that we are at the Inflection point in: – TTS – STT – private LLMs – (low latency versions of all the above) – >24h battery life BLE microphones – Long context/structured
https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1776448691123241288
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 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
- 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/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
Thanks for reading!
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