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Amazon

Op-ed: Amazon says it’s time to double down on responsible AI

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/amazon-responsible-ai

Other Agent News

Introducing: The Managed-Service-as-Software (M-SaS) Startup – https://dannguyenhuu.substack.com/p/introducing-the-managed-service-as

How close is AI to replacing product managers?

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-close-is-ai-to-replacing-product

Meet Einstein Service Agent: Salesforce’s Autonomous AI Agent to Revolutionize Chatbot Experiences – Salesforce

Meet Einstein Service Agent: Salesforce’s Autonomous AI Agent to Revolutionize Chatbot Experiences

Project Atlas Desktop – Generate no-code agents in natural language

https://www.producthunt.com/products/project-atlas-2

“have been thinking about this a lot, and I think the most impactful topic to work on right now in AI is 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 we can’t just fake agency using prompting, though. we need to build it into the next generation of language models: agent-native LLMs here’s my logic: 1. it”

have been thinking about this a lot, and I think the most impactful topic to work on right now in AI is 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

we can’t just fake agency using prompting, though. we need to build it into the next generation of language models: agent-native LLMs

here’s my logic:
1. it…

— jack morris (@jxmnop) July 16, 2024

“My Vision: the Rise of AI Agents I envision a future where AI agents handle most laborious tasks, saving us time and headache. -Studies have shown that many people spend 7 hours a day online, totaling 17 years of their lives. -Imagine if AI agents could manage tedious tasks 

My Vision: the Rise of AI Agents

I envision a future where AI agents handle most laborious tasks, saving us time and headache.

-Studies have shown that many people spend 7 hours a day online, totaling 17 years of their lives.

-Imagine if AI agents could manage tedious tasks… pic.twitter.com/2AExLIQiSc

— Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) July 18, 2024

aiXplain Secures $6.5M pre-Series A to Universalize AI Agent Development – EIN Presswire

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/728139645/aixplain-secures-6-5m-pre-series-a-to-universalize-ai-agent-development

“Exciting research about AI for spreadsheets! 📊🤖 Researchers have developed SpreadsheetLLM, a new way to make AI better at understanding complex spreadsheets. Key points: 🧩 Challenge: Spreadsheets are tough for AI due to their 2D layout and diverse formats 🗜️ Solution: 

Exciting research about AI for spreadsheets! 📊🤖
Researchers have developed SpreadsheetLLM, a new way to make AI better at understanding complex spreadsheets.

Key points:
🧩 Challenge: Spreadsheets are tough for AI due to their 2D layout and diverse formats
🗜️ Solution:… pic.twitter.com/skd5BG53UQ

— Florent Daudens (@fdaudens) July 15, 2024

Elementor AI: Build Websites in Minutes with AIhttps://supertools.therundown.ai/content/elementor-ai

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AI News #42: Week Ending 07/19/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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
• Safe Intelligence, Inc.
• 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/
• Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
• Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
• Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
• Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
• Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
• Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett

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