Welcome to Week 60 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team. Building with Dappier? Submit your AI Tool or project to get showcased!

AI News 📰

• The fight for the most realistic AI generations is heating up. Google recently impressed with ‘Nano Banana’ in Gemini, an image model much more capable of ‘editing’ photos and retaining information on subsequent generations. Now, OpenAI has launched Sora 2, a new video generation tool that seems more lifelike than anything seen before. - source

  • Billed as a “giant leap forward in realism”, the new Sora app is invite-only, features more of a social feed similar to recent Meta AI social offerings, and includes a ‘Cameo’ feature that will let users save and share the avatars they create.
    

• Samsung and OpenAI deepened their collaboration: Samsung and SK Hynix are now supplying advanced memory chips for OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure and discussing floating data centers in South Korea. – source
  

• California enacted a sweeping AI safety law (SB 53) requiring large model providers to report safety incidents and disclose redacted protocols publicly. – source
  

• Meta’s AI & AR-enabled Ray Ban Display glasses have sold out, despite a disastrous launch event. - source

Dappier Updates 🛠️

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• Last week we mentioned our live demo on Agentic Commerce with  Skyfire.xyz, alongside Okta, Vercel, Akamai & Consumer Reports amongst others.

  • This week we’ve made that integration public! Check out the tutorial vid below & get started with:

    • our Skyfire Integration Guide

    • Skyfire’s Dappier integration doc

• At Advertising Week NY next week, Oct. 6 - Oct. 9? Meet with our CBO Mark Balabanian to learn how Dappier can enable you to make money from AI

  • as a Publisher

  • as an AI builder or site owner

  • or as an Advertiser

    

    Dappier CBO Mark Balabanian will be at Advertising Week New York Monday Oct. 6th - Thursday Oct. 9th

    
    

• Check 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!

• Are you following us on socials? Find us for quick demos, tutorials, interview clips, insights & more:

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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 🤖

• HHS doubled funding for AI-backed childhood cancer research—from $50M to $100M—to accelerate diagnostics, treatment and prevention using AI models. – source
  

• YouTube unveiled new AI creator tools—like multi-language subtitles, auto highlight generation, and lip-sync dubbing—to tighten control over monetization and creator monetization pipelines. – 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:

• A controversial AI experiment created novel viral genomes (tested in E. coli), some effective at killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria—raising serious biosafety alarms. – source

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

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

Last week we highlighted the launch of nano-banana. This week we’re highlighting some potential game-changing rumors around Apple’s AI efforts:

• Meta is stepping into humanoid robots: internally dubbed “Metabot,” the project focuses on robotics software rather than hardware and may license the platform to others. – source

Community Comments 🌎

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• Last week we shared further coverage of our partnership release with Sovrn in MarTechCube. This week we’re sharing coverage of that announcement in TalkMarTech:

  Sovrn Teams Up with Dappier to Improve AI Monetization for Publishers

  Sovrn partners with Dappier to offer publishers a solution for AI monetization, enhancing ad relevance and revenue through branded experiences and content syndication.

  talkmartech.com/quick-bytes/sovrn-teams-up-with-dappier-to-improve-ai-monetization-for-publishers