Week 4 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team!

AI News 📰

AI in the Wild 💡

• 5 secretaries of state signed a joint letter lashing out at Elon Musk over alleged election misinformation generated by X’s ‘Grok’ AI. The AI reportedly generated false information regarding election deadlines, drawing scrutiny from democratic leaders following Musk’s recent endorsement of Donald Trump for President. - source

• Musk was busy chatting with Lex Fridman, bringing his team along for an 8-hour+ (!) interview. Musk highlighted the need for real-time data to make AI tools useful and valuable to end users. - source

• In a time where Google’s seemingly ever-present dominance in search actually seems threatened by AI tooling & OS-level LLM integration, the US govt. has determined that Google has an illegal monopoly in search, citing anti-competitive deals like its exclusive iPhone browser deal with Apple. - source

Dappier Updates 🛠️

• Are you following our Dev Blog? We’re expanding our blog with guest posts from Dappier team developers. We’ll be getting technical, bringing you insights and best practices when it comes to AI fine-tuning, LLM development and RAG. Our first post covers why LLM tools need RAG in the first place: because Your AI Is Only as Smart As Your Data.

• This week we’re celebrating over 630+ sign-ups on Dappier! (And 250+ followers on LinkedIn! 🥳) Want to understand how Dappier can help your business 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:

• Don’t talk about politics at the dinner table, but you can make an exception for RFK JR.’s headline-drawing confession, tying himself to a decade-old mystery over a dead bear cub’s mysterious ‘prank’ appearance in Central Park. What? - source

• Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has become leader of the interim government in Bangladesh, following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The daughter of the nation’s first president fled the country increasing protests & rioting over corruption allegations. - source

• Markets have begun to steady following a major crash last week, triggered in large part by the rising value of the Japanese yen. - source

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

This is where we’ll highlight cool ways people are using AI today!

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

• OpenAI says that they’ll be revealing an AI detection tool that can determine “with 99.9% accuracy” when ChatGPT is being used to generate something - source 

Data Model Spotlight ✨

This is where we’ll be spotlighting data models listed on Dappier Marketplace. Anyone can transform their proprietary content into an ‘AI-ready’ data model in just a few clicks, then license that data model as a RAG API at a price point you set!

• Polygon Stock Market Data: From the NYSE to the NASDAQ, enhance your AI by enabling it with the latest ticker news from the world’s leading exchanges, thanks to our partnership with FinTech data provider Polygon.io.

  

  Stock Market & FinTech data from Polygon.io

AI in the Real World 🤖

We want to know how AI 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 Sasha Benson, Chief Growth Officer at law firm SEO agency Grow Law Firm.

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.

For now, we’ll be using quotes from our recent ProductHunt launch of Dappier 2.0, which was featured in ProductHunt’s daily newsletter!

“It's about time someone build a tool (and maybe a marketplace) for services like AI to license novel content!” - Tony Han, Product Manager @ Lightci & newsletter writer @ Growth Grove