Welcome to Week 20! of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team! 🎉

AI News 📰

Robots in the Wild 🤖

• OpenAI is poaching 3 leading engineers from Google, according to new reporting from WIRED. The three researchers seemingly come in a package deal, as the trio reportedly work closely together leading research at Google DeepMind. - source
  

• Google has released a private preview of Veo, a text-to-video model for hyperrealistic video. While OpenAI has previously released video projects created by its own internal generative video model Sora, the firm has notably not made any announcements around a similar public release despite initially promising to have released by end of 2024. - source 
  

• Amazon announced a new set of foundational models under the “Nova” branding, which will be made available as part of the Amazon Bedrock model library in AWS. The firm announced 3 more general “understanding” models for various price points as well as content generation models for text-to-image and text-to-video. Check out Amazon’s first GenAI video: a fake ad for pasta. - 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!

• AI data-scraped summaries are "effectively rebrand[ing] your company’s messaging under a new authority established, owned, and managed by the content aggregators."

  • That was the major takeaway after our CEO sat down with digital strategist Shannon Swenson in Austin for a conversation around the future of content syndication and digital publishing. Check out his latest blog post for more on how publishers can embrace AI to combat data scraping, boost engagement and unlock new revenues.

    

    A snippet from Shannon’s blog post ‘Boost Audience Engagement With A Branded “Ask Stack”’

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:

• Crazy stuff is going down in South Korea. President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an unprecedented political move that was unanimously rebuked by the Korean National Assembly. Yoon Suk Yeol rose to power largely after helping to impeach a former President, following a maybe equally wild scandal involving cults, curses & shamans. But to Americans, he’s probably best remembered as the President who sang American Pie at the White House - source
  

• Crazy stuff is going down in France. The nation is facing political turmoil (What else is new?), as far-right and far-left parties pursue a no-confidence vote to oust the nation’s centrist leaders. Should the no-confidence vote succeed, current Prime Minister Michel Barnier will have served the shortest term of any French Prime Minister. - source
  

• Crazy stuff is going down in Australia. The nation passed a new law barring anyone under the age of 16 from participating in social media. Surely shielding the children will work. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Thank God the Costco Guys are American! - source

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

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• A Swiss auction house is the first to sell a piece whose authenticity is verified solely by AI. The auction house worked with Swiss-based AI image authentication startup Art Recognition, which charges a starting fee of $2,200 per artwork. - 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 Kostantyn Mitrofanskiy, CEO, Intellisoft.io

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 is the direction large media companies and publishers are headed as they struggle to optimize revenue in common channels like advertising, sponsorships, subscriptions, memberships, events, and affiliate programs. The indirect path to monetization is a brilliantly-conceived Ask Stack experience.” - source