🚀Poe and Anthropic Launch New Features.

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Middle of the week already fellows, and just when we thought Nvidia was hitting its plateau non-AI companies are buying Chips for rent purposes, Poe and Anthropic Launch New Features, and Changes at OpenAI Board. Here’s the Latest…

• 📰 News and Trends.
• Poe’s New Web Apps Feature Rivals Anthropic’s Artifacts.
• Microsoft and Apple Step Back from OpenAI Board Amid Regulatory Scrutiny.
• 🧰 AI Tools (Transcribers)
• Anthropic Unveils Prompt Playground to Enhance AI App Development.

📰 AI News and Trends

• Google DeepMind’s AI Rat Brains Could Make Robots Scurry Like the Real Thing (SingularityHub)
• US Says Russia Used AI-Powered Bots in Disinformation Scheme (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk’s xAI and Oracle have ended talks on expanding their server rental agreement (ThreadReader)
• Qualcomm and Microsoft Lean on AI Hype to Spur PC Market Revival, but AI PCs only account for 3% of shipped devices so far in 204 (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Startup Fund backs AI healthcare venture with Arianna Huffington (TC)
• A16z is building a stash of more than 20k GPUs to win deals (TheInformation)

🌐 Other News

• Chinese self-driving cars have quietly traveled 1.8 million miles on U.S. roads, collecting detailed data with cameras and lasers (Fortune)
• Temu Breaks With Direct-From-China Strategy In Threat to Amazon (TheInformation)
• PayPal’s PYUSD Crosses $500M (TheBlock)
• Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% (NYT)
• Biden signs bill bolstering nuclear power (TheHill)
• Microsoft and Occidental sign carbon credit deal to help offset AI energy surge (FT)

Poe’s New Web Apps Feature Rivals Anthropic’s Artifacts.

Quora’s Poe has introduced Previews, enabling users to create interactive web apps directly within chats with AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o. Users can build data visualizations, games, and other applications using multiple chatbots and data from uploaded files. These apps, which incorporate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, can be shared via links. Previews are similar to Anthropic’s Artifacts but support output from any chatbot. This new feature is part of Poe’s premium plan, costing $20 monthly. However, Poe recently faced scrutiny for allowing users to download paywalled articles through its in-house Assistant chatbot.

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Microsoft and Apple Step Back from OpenAI Board Amid Regulatory Scrutiny.

Microsoft has stepped down from its observer role on OpenAI’s board, while Apple has decided not to take up a similar position. This move follows increased regulatory scrutiny of Big Tech investments in AI startups. Microsoft, which invested $13 billion in OpenAI, will now engage with the company through regular meetings instead. OpenAI will adopt a new strategy to keep key partners like Microsoft and Apple informed, under the leadership of Sarah Friar, its new CFO. This change comes amid antitrust concerns in the US and EU about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership. Despite the board exit, Microsoft remains a crucial partner for OpenAI, providing essential computing resources and driving significant AI service demand on its Azure platform.

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Anthropic Unveils Prompt Playground to Enhance AI App Development.

Anthropic has introduced new features to enhance prompt engineering for its language model, Claude. The latest update allows developers to generate, test, and evaluate prompts using Claude 3.5 Sonnet, housed under the new “Evaluate” tab in Anthropic Console. This tool helps improve AI application prompts by providing quick feedback and enabling side-by-side comparisons of prompt effectiveness. Developers can upload real-world examples or use AI-generated test cases, saving time and effort, particularly for those with little prompt engineering experience. These tools aim to facilitate the creation of better AI applications and support broader enterprise adoption of generative AI.