Welcome to Week 18 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team! 🎉

AI News 📰

Robots in the Wild 🤖

• Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba rolled out an international version of its own AI-powered search engine for small businesses. According to the firm, initial tests showed businesses’ purchase intent increased by 40% versus traditional search engines. The new tool, named Accio after the spell for summoning objects in Harry Potter, is available in English, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish. How did China find out about Harry Potter? - source
  

• Another Chinese tech giant, Baidu, has announced their own AI-powered smart glasses, intending to compete with Meta in the growing wearable space. The glasses will use Baidu’s ‘ERNIE’ LLM, competing with TikTok parent company Bytedance, who leads the AI assistant market in China with their ‘Doubao’ chatbot. - source 
  

• Jerry Garcia’s estate is licensing the rock star’s voice for AI-trained usage. The Grateful Dead lead is the latest celebrity in on the AI-recreated voice trend, including Judy Garland, James Dean & Burt Reynolds. - source

Dappier Updates 🛠️

• Dappier has been rolling out new data models via Datarade. Are you using Dappier to power your AI’s web search functionality with more accurate results? Leave us a review!

• We’ve launched our latest news data model, in partner with a new News broadcast provider: WISH-TV. Access the latest local news data from the greater Indiana region & more - try out the WISH-TV data model today.

  

  WISH-TV is the latest broadcast news provider to tap Dappier for AI usage licensing & tooling.

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

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

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

• Toymaker Mattel has issued an apology after new dolls for the upcoming ‘Wicked’ movie pointed to a porn site called Wicked instead of the movie’s webpage. The film has had a tough promo period - last month the film’s star Cynthia Erivo garnered significant backlash after slamming a fan-made poster which was edited to look more like the original Broadway production version, calling the fan edit “deeply hurtful”. - source
  

• A Doctor in Moscow was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison after criticizing the ongoing war in Ukraine. She was reported by the mother of one of her patients, who recorded a viral video where she accused the doctor of referring to her child's father as a "legitimate target of Ukraine".

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• A new research study suggests that putting lights on the bottom of your surfboard or boat might go a long way in deterring shark attacks! Scientists in South Africa created seal-shaped boards with various light configurations to test the reactions of various shark species known to occasionally attack humans . Have they tried just getting a bigger boat? - source

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

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

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• Google is offering a major update to its Machine Learning ‘Crash Course’, which first launched in 2018, to reflect the rapid pace of change in the AI space. The course includes 15 hours of content and 130 exercise questions to test your AI skills. - source

Next-Gen Tech in the Real World 💡

We want to know how AI is affecting your life & work today! We’ve been asking creators & entrepreneurs from around the world how the recent wave of GenAI tech tooling has - or hasn’t - changed the way they work.

This week’s comment is from Benzo Lee, Founder of packaging provider AutoBoxUp.

Community Comments 🌎

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.

This week, we’re picking a comment from our 🐈Cat-GPT ProductHunt 🐈

“This extensive article database should be really useful for tackling my kitty conundrums!”
- @Tywin_Del on ProductHunt