Welcome to Week 26 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team! 🥳

AI News 📰

Robots in the Wild 🤖

• Donald Trump is back in office, and he is all-in on AI. Trump announced “Stargate AI” a “$500 Billion” project to invest in AI technologies in the US, in partnership with OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank and MGX.

  • We put “$500 Biilion” in quotes because noted Trump supporter and OpenAI rival Elon Musk has cast some serious doubt on that number, reposting users on X who argue that none of the partnered firms have that kind of cash to spend. His take: accusing the OpenAI team of smoking crack. - source
    

• Medical AI startup Tempus AI has launched ‘olivia’, an AI agent for managing patient care and electronic health records. - source

• Oscars frontrunner ‘The Brutalist’ generated significant controversy after news that AI was used to improve actors’ accents. The film’s editor Dávid Jancsó defended the decision, saying that for the minimal-budget film “we really needed to speed up the process otherwise we’d still be in post. It is controversial in the industry to talk about AI, but it shouldn’t be.” - source

  • Don’t worry The Brutalist team - we thought people who watch the Oscars were lame way before this.

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

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

• Donald Trump was sworn into office, again. While most of the leaders in AI and tech were there, perhaps most interesting was who was missing. An Imam who was originally scheduled to read alongside other religious leaders at the ceremony - in what would have been a first for the Muslim-American community - was removed at the last minute seemingly in response to his prior statements in support of Hezbollah and the Houthi movement. - source

• Trump has likely made himself a few billion by releasing a memecoin on the eve of his inauguration. No one really particularly seems to care or mind. - source

• At least 76 people were killed in a hotel fire at a Turkish Ski resort. - source

Dappier Updates 🛠️

• This month we rolled out AskAI as an monetized banner ad update. Now, we’re bringing a new set of updates to improve user experience:

  • Introducing Real-Time Streaming Text - your branded AI now shows end users exactly what it’s “thinking” as it generates a response.

    • Also new to AskAI: more visual customization options and improved agent analytics.

      

      Get more insight into how your AskAI agent is performing with improved analytics, part of the latest update to Dappier’s AskAI answer engine.

• At IAB ALM 2025? Meet with Dappier team! Schedule an in-person meeting today.

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

  

  Meet with Dappier team at iab.alm ‘25

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.

• Dappier’s real-time RAG APIs recently launched support for the CAMEL multi-agent framework 🐫. Now, CAMEL team has demonstrated how developers can put Dappier’s data to good use: creating adaptive travel plans using CAMEL's role-playing agents combined with real-time weather data

  

  Thanks to 🐫 CAMEL Community for demonstrating the power of a Dappier-enabled bot.

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 Marshall Morris at partner HomeLife Media, which runs the largest pet care communities on the web. Marshall kindly joined Dappier team’s interview with ADWEEK to talk about some of the more additional value adds brought on by AI integration.