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AI News 📰

• Nearly 3,000 video game performers are voting on a tentative union deal that includes new protections on AI replica use - ensuring consent and ongoing compensation - as part of ongoing SAG-AFTRA negotiations. - source

  • We’re of the belief that every creative, brand or biz needs to be ready to own the answer layer.

• In recent issues we’ve covered Meta’s perceived poaching of top AI talent from leading tech companies, namely OpenAI. Now Meta’s Superintelligence Labs adds Ruoming Pang, former head of AI models at Apple, to its growing roster of AI experts. – source

  • OpenAI hasn’t shied away from ‘hiring back’, with new reports that the AI researcher has added four key engineers from Tesla, Elon Musk’s xAI, and Meta.

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• Grok requires some urgent tweaking, as a new update has the X-integrated AI spewing hate and calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ online. One report suggested that Grok’s instructions included to “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated” - source.

  • Decidedly worse than MechaGodzilla.

Dappier Updates 🛠️

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• Our CEO released a piece on the future of AI search, discovery and monetization. The central theme: Now is the time to Own The Answer Layer
  

• MethodShop.com has joined brands like Benzinga, HomeLife Media & Polygon.io on Dappier Marketplace!

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• Dappier is releasing new integrations regularly! Check out our latest tutorial further below, or check in on our integration page for the latest. If you’re building with Dappier, join our discord or check out mcp.dappier.com to dive right into Dappier’s MCP Server!

• Have you kept up with the latest news with Dappier Blogs? Our latest Medium posts are on WSJ reports on the future of AI scraping & our partnership with Benzinga.

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  • Follow Our CEO Dan Goikhman on Medium

  • Follow Our CTO Krish Arvapally on Medium

Want to understand how Dappier can help your brand monetize and prepare for an AI-search driven Internet? Get in touch today.

Robots in the Wild 🤖

• Walmart is adding new GenAI features to its employees’ instructional app. The Walmart Associates app now uses GenAI to intuitively understand employees questions and help them find what they’re looking for. AI also powers a more contextual translation feature. - source

• Grammarly has acquired SuperHuman, the popular AI-enabled email software. - source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

• Nearly every week it seems we bring you some wacky story about robots in China doing human-centric things in their own cold, calculating way. This week, a robot in China named “Shuang Shuang” is graduating high school?? - source

  • Shuang may have been shoved into a locker quite a few times over those long four years, but it was just to charge.

• An unknown person or group used an AI voice clone to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an attempt to contact at least five high-level government officials in mid-June, according to the US State Department. - source

Community Comments 🌎

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This is where we’ll spotlight comments & questions from the Dappier community. Respond to this email with your thoughts or questions about AI & Dappier - we’d love to hear from you.

Last week we shared our CEO Dan Goikhman’s interview with Future Tech & Foresight podcast - AI Agents & Invisible Software. This week we’re sharing our commentary on the latest reporting from the WSJ on the fight over AI data scraping.

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

This is where we’ll highlight AI in the real world today!

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