Welcome to Week 25(!) of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team! 🥳

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AI News 📰

Robots in the Wild 🤖

• ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos, thanks to a new “Tasks” feature which rolled out yesterday in beta for all paid users. You can set-up to 10 tasks at once. Read more on our blog. - source
  

• What does Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella think about Agentic AI? “These agents will come together to change every SaaS application category”. That language comes from a post announcing “CoreAI - Platforms and Tools”, an internal reorganization to optimize all infrastructure to support multi-agent app development. - source

• OpenAI has quietly removed language promising to build towards “politically unbiased AI” in an updated policy doc. An OpenAI spokesperson defended the decision, telling TechCrunch that their existing documentation still “make[s] the point on objectivity”. - 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:

• News sources report today that a ceasefire deal has been reached between Israel & Hamas. Leaders on each side of the conflict are expected to make an official announcement tomorrow. - source

• Russian missile attacks have forced Ukraine to preventatively shut down a large section of its power grid. The news comes as the Prime Minister of Poland today accused Russia of planning terror attacks on “airlines across the globe”. - source

• Walmart is the latest company to be the subject of online ire after making incredibly minimal changes to their logo. - source

  

  AI will never live up to human artistry, right? 🙄

Dappier Updates 🛠️

• If you missed it, last week we rolled out our biggest update yet to AskAI, the contextual answer engine for the Open Web: AskAI as a fully monetized web ad.

  • Publishers, you can now launch a branded AskAI experience as a web ad with instant monetization across your site in minutes.

  • Thanks to MarTech.org and MarTech Edge for covering this news!

    • Read the full story exclusively in ADWEEK.

      

      Meet with Dappier team at iab.alm ‘25

• Thanks for meeting with Dappier at CES 2025! Now we’re shifting focus to IAB ALM 2025 - want to meet with Dappier team? Schedule an in-person meeting today!

  • Not making it to IAB this year? Schedule a virtual demo.

• Have you seen our latest blog posts?

  • We discussed Langchain’s new terminology for AI agents capable of running in the background without needing a prompt to trigger: Ambient Agents

  • We also talked about the multimodal future of search, in light of news that Tesla plans to integrate xAI into its vehicles.

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

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

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

Want to spotlight your AI tool or use case? Tell us how you’re using a Dappier RAG API to enhance your AI offering! Just respond to this email & let us know.

• If you’re trying to build a complex application that harnesses AI, you might need to take a multi-agent approach. As a reminder, Dappier’s real-time RAG APIs now support the CAMEL multi-agent framework.

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’s comment comes from the team at MarTech Edge, on the launch of AskAI ask an in-ad experience.