AI comes to war

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The AI hype train keeps on rolling as we get major new AI upgrades from Hubspot, Slack, TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mailchimp and more.

And there’s a new battlefront in the fight for geopolitical dominance, as countries go head-to-head in the race to secure the AI initiative.

TODAY’S MENU

• The Big Insight: Major new product updates, AI comes to war

• 5 AI tools to supercharge your productivity

• Friday Laugh: The future of art

• AI-Generated Images: Spiderman by Quentin Tarantino

THE BIG INSIGHT

HubSpot, Slack and Intuit make major AI product announcements

The pace of new product and feature releases in AI is simply relentless at the moment. HubSpot, Slack, and Intuit announced significant AI updates this week. Here’s a quick summary of everything you need to know:

HubSpot launches new AI tools for marketing and sales

• AI content assistants that work across all of HubSpot to help sales and marketing teams generate any content they need.

• AI agents to automate and take care of routine customer service tasks.

• AI insights that let you know things like when a customer is most likely to buy or churn.

• ChatSpot, to ask questions about content stored inside Hubspot.

You can access Hubspot’s AI features here.

Slack brings new AI features to its platform

Slack AI can do things like:

• Summarize threads and channel discussions.

• Search for answers in relevant chats, threads, and files.

• Slack lists to track projects coming later this year.

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Intuit announces Intuit Assist, an AI-powered financial assistant

• Works across the entire Intuit platform: TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and MailChimp.

• Built to help small businesses and individuals.

• Assist will help users with things like navigating the tax code, providing answers to money questions, identifying spending anomalies, generating invoices, creating email campaigns, and more.

You can read about the full list of features here.

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THE BIG INSIGHT

Battle of the Bots: The AI ‘Cold War’ and the race for technological supremacy

The battle for military and geopolitical dominance has a new war front: AI supremacy. Some countries are investing billions of dollars to build their advantage and secure vital resources like Nvidia chips, while others are looking to handicap their rivals through trade restrictions.

These are some of the latest developments on how the AI ‘Cold War’ between the US and China is shaping up:

• According to WSJ, the US Department of Defence plans to develop AI-powered drone systems that are “small, smart, [and] cheap” to counter threats from China and other countries.

• Two new studies claim that Generative AI-powered content could add significantly to the nature and scale of disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining rival nations.

• Reuters reports that the US and China are in a race to develop end deploy AI-powered weapons like submarines, warships, and planes that can operate without humans.

• The US Air Force reportedly wants $6 billion to develop a fleet of AI controlled drones.

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5 AI Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity

Loom AI: Record better, faster video messages.

Helpkit AI: Turns your Notion knowledge base into a smart, 24/7 AI assistant that provides precise and instant answers to your users.

AI Audience Accelerator: The first ever AI-powered content creation system designed to help you grow a large online following while spending only 1 hour per week on content creation. 

Tafi AI (Beta): Bring your ideas to life and produce high-quality 3D characters, based exclusively on text input.

Merlin: Conduct, analyze, and summarize qualitative research using AI.

RESEARCH

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AI is assisting in the detection of lung cancer, the world's most lethal malignancy. Optellum has developed a Virtual Nodule Clinic in partnership with GE Healthcare to improve the detection and monitoring of incidental lung cancer discoveries from multiple scans. Optellum's objective is to provide early diagnosis and therapy to all lung disease patients. Read more

FRIDAY LAUGHS

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Spiderman by Quentin Tarantino

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