EP 384: AI News That Matters - October 21st, 2024

Meta just made a multi-billion acquisition for AI agents. 🤖 OpenAI might wanna make pens and buy .... Pinterest? 🎯 And why is Grok generating explicit images of minors? 🤮 Weird (and gross) week in AI. If you missed anything, don't worry. On Mondays, we bring you the AI News that Matters so you can be the most up-to-date person in your company when it comes to AI. Meta buys AI agent giant, Grok under fire for explicit images of minors, OpenAI building pens and more -- An Every...

5 Jan 36min

Might internal memos be a thing of the past? When you can just build something as fast as writing a memo about it, why wouldn't you just build the demo? In this episode of Everyday AI, we sit down with Google Cloud’s Richard Seroter to break down five simple ways to use AI with Google. No technical background needed. We talk faster research, better learning, building ideas without overthinking, and why “demos over memos” might change how teams work. If you want practical, no-BS ways...

2 Jan 35min

Bet you didn’t know you could do THAT in Google Sheets. 👀 You mighta slept on this the past few months, but AI functions are live inside of Google Sheets thanks to Gemini. I know what you're saying... AI functions? I can barely spread the sheets! Lolz. That's the beauty of it. With a simple =AI of your keyboard, you can talk to your spreadsheets in natural language and tap into the full power of Google Gemini. Don't worry.... we're gonna put it to Work this Wednesday tog...

31 Dec 202540min

One of the scariest parts of AI? 😰 Who (or what) gets left out. As a result, LLM outputs are heavily skewed toward the perspectives and content most common in their training data and the people who supervise them. Which is almost always an absolutely terrible thing. So, who gets written out of the AI future? And how do we fix it? Join us to find out. Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode:Episode Page Join the discussion on Linked...

30 Dec 202528min

A $20 billion AI deal while you were away? 🤯 Yes. Even though this week may be considered a 'slower' week in AI news..... ↳ NVIDIA made a splash with a $20 billion pseudo acquisition ↳ Amazon partnered with some big names for its Alexa+ and ↳ Microsoft's Copilot is reportedly struggling so much that its CEO is acting as a product manager. Miss anything? Don't worry, in our weekly 'AI News That Matters' series, we'll get you caught up in no time. Newsletter...

29 Dec 202532min

ChatGPT ads are coming y'all. 📰 They’re gonna be both crazy intrusive yet also pretty useful. That’s a given. But the real hot take here: personalized ChatGPT ads are actually gonna change how the internet works and conversational commerce is going to be the new norm. Every single company — including yours — is going to have to quickly adapt. We lay out how, as well as the 9 reasons why we’re confident ChatGPT ads based on your account will be rolling out soon.&nb...

23 Dec 202546min

You're winding down for the year? 🥱 AI had one its biggest weeks yet, so listen up before you clock out. Yeah, we're winding down for the holidays in the U.S. Buuuuuuuut, we had huge releases from OpenAI, a shocking model from Google, and news that Meta maybe going after Nano Banana. Sleep through this week, and you'll wake up in 2026 feeling months behind. Don't waste time, on Mondays, we only bring you the AI News That Matters. ChatGPT’s Image 1.5 impresses, Goo...

22 Dec 202536min

Jeetu Patel knows a few AI secrets. As the President of one of the largest companies in the world, he's helped pave the AI adoption roadmap. At Cisco, they provide full-stack, enterprise AI solutions spanning infrastructure, security, observability, and operations to the world's largest companies. So naturally, Jeetu could write a legit playbook on what's slowing enterprises down in the AI fast lane and how they can overcome those bottlenecks. And naturally, Jeetu is g...

19 Dec 202534min