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Today’s Headlines:

• Perplexity Poised To Become Latest AI Startup To Hit Unicorn Status - Perplexity AI is reportedly nearing completion of a funding round that will give the AI search startup a unicorn valuation of around $1 billion. The near doubling in valuation in just two months is the latest example of the unwavering belief investors have in seemingly all things AI — regardless of the valuation.

• ChatGPT can now read responses to you - On iOS or Android, tap and hold the message and then tap “Read Aloud”. We’ve also started rolling on web - click the "Read Aloud" button below the message. See the demo here.

• Madonna is among the early adopters of AI’s next wave - Madonna’s team used Runway, a text-to-video tool, to create “La Isla Bonita” concert visuals. “We tried CGI. It looked pretty bland and cheesy and she didn’t like it,” said Sasha Kasiuha, content director for Madonna’s Celebration Tour.

• Google takes aim at SEO-optimized junk pages and spam with new search update - Google’s new policies will address the need to keep low-quality content out of search, like “expired websites repurposed as spam repositories by new owners,” to improve Google’s ranking systems to downrank pages that were “created for search engines instead of for people".

• New AI Smartphone Tool Accurately Diagnoses Ear Infections - A new smartphone app developed by physician-scientists at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, uses AI to accurately diagnose ear infections, and could help decrease unnecessary antibiotic use in young children, according to new research published today in JAMA Pediatrics.

• Wix's New AI Website Builder - Get a unique, business-ready website in no time with our powerful AI. Chat with our AI website creator and watch as your business story turns into a custom site right before your eyes.

• Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee’, emerges from stealth with $25M - “Our goal is to automate on the mundane tasks that employees do on a day to day basis in every enterprise ... to free them up to do more valuable and more strategic work.” Businesses are using it in applications that range from customer service to internal productivity applications for employees.

• Women In AI: Karine Perset helps governments understand AI -

  Karine Perset works for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where she runs its AI unit and oversees the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and the OECD.AI Networks of Experts within the Division for Digital Economy Policy. Perset specializes in AI and public policy.

• Better Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock: Palantir or SoundHound AI? - SoundHound stock exploded on the news that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has a small stake. Palantir proved many skeptics wrong by posting five straight quarters of net income in accord with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Let's explore.

• Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’ - “‘Accountability’ looks like more monitors, more oversights, more back doors, more elimination of places where people can express or communicate freely, instead of actually checking on the business models that have been created...There’s an unwillingness to hit at the root of the problem. And instead, what we see is effectively proposals to extend surveillance into government and NGO sectors in the name of accountability.”

• What do shoppers think of AI-powered chatbots? - Intellias' original research found that 44% said AI helped retailers and brands create more personalized shopping experiences; 19% said that interactions with AI chatbots were the most likely stage to abandon their carts. Separate research by Talkdesk, which found that 68% of U.S. shoppers would lose trust in a brand if it gave them poor recommendations by AI chatbots. Additionally, 53% said poor AI chatbot experiences would stop them from shopping with the retailer again.

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AI Guru Spotlight - Paul Anthony Claxton:

Paul Anthony Claxton is an early-stage AI Venture Capitalist Investor. Paul is interested in companies that are predestined to change society by solving real problems.

Through his technology endeavors and investments, Paul is interested in making the world a safer, more eBicient, and enjoyable place for humanity and our environment.

He believes companies that can do this, are built to last and scale for at least the next 15-20 years.

Paul and his firm, Q1 Velocity Venture Capital, focus on companies that are building artificial intelligence solutions or those companies that must leverage AI in some way in order to operate.

With 10 years of experience as a U.S. Marine, Paul knows how important it is to drive revolutionary technologies on both the public sector and the private sector sides of the fence. His portfolio companies are expanding and creating massive footprints where their technologies can improve our infrastructure, lives, and businesses.

Paul is an author, a San Diego Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree, former advisor to Ithaca College, and a U.S. Marine veteran with 10 years of honorable, decorated service on active duty and four combat tours.

He is pursuing his MBA of Finance at Harvard University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Law and Psychology from Park University and a Military Leadership and Strategy certificate from Marine Corps University. Paul is also a former competitive amateur athlete as an awarded powerlifter and leisurely marathon runner.

He is heavily involved in the AI community as a media writer and ambassador for AI Accelerator Institute, and Idea Scale. He hosts 2 podcasts, Capital Unscripted and Explainable AI. You can visit his Capital Venture website to learn more.

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