Welcome to Week 11 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team! 🎉

AI News 📰

AI in the Wild 💡

• Today is Meta Connect, an annual conference from the tech giant. Major updates are expected around their AI offerings, especially Meta’s increasing push into VR & wearables - like AI-enabled glasses in partnership with Ray Ban. - source

• Cybersecurity giant Cloudflare has released a new free tool to help sites detect & block AI bots from scraping their content. The new tool is indicative of increasing friction and decreased revenue for traditional web publishers as users turn to new AI tools for search. Dappier helps brands monetize for the AI Internet. - source

• After leaving Google to launch Character.AI following reported frustration around Google’s then-refusal to publicize AI technologies, technologist Noam Shazeer has agreed to return to Google to help lead Gemini, in a 2.7B$ deal between the two firms. - source
  

• Movie director James Cameron has joined the board of Stability.AI, the company behind leading text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion. Let’s just hope the man who invented Terminator knows what he’s doing. - source

Dappier Updates 🛠️

• Are you following Dappier on Medium? We’ll be rolling out new DevBlogs that focus on best practices and how-to’s when it comes to AI integration & RAG.

• Dappier team wants to know: what integrations or APIs do you use the most for your AI apps or projects? Let us know, and make sure you’re signed-up to our ProductHunt page to see how we might be using that information. 👀

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:

• President Biden gave what will likely be his last speech in front of the UN General Assembly today, as global tensions mount over increasing violence in Israel & the Middle East, and in Russia and Ukraine. - source
  

• A nuclear energy company backed in part by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Oklo, has begun construction in Idaho of the startup’s first commercial nuclear micro reactor. - source
  

• The DOJ charged Visa with an antitrust lawsuit. Visa, which processes ~60% of debit card transactions in the US, is accused of effectively creating illegal "exclusive deals", by requiring businesses to commit to routing a certain volume of transactions to avoid higher fees. - 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.

• Try out our latest data model: ‘Green Monster’, from One Green Planet: Looking for the latest environmental news, eco-friendly insights, vegan & vegitarian cooking guidance & more? Enhance your GPT with real-time articles from One Green Planet!

  

  GreenMonster, from One Green Planet

AI 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 Carter Seuthe, CEO of Credit Summit Debt Consolidation

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 picked out a quote from our Cat-GPT ProductHunt!

“Cat GPT sounds like the ultimate cat whisperer tool. Seriously, who hasn’t wondered why their cat is staring at them at 3 AM? 😂 Can't wait to see what quirky cat questions people come up with!” - Liam Patrick O'Connor, cofounder of StreamSync.