This AI Travel Assistant Saves You Money 🍭

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AI Travel Assistant Saves You Money
Merging Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence
Atlas Gets a Brain Boost
Everything Else You Need To Know

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Discord Fights To Protect Users’ Anonymity In Court ⚖
Discord is defending its users’ anonymity against a subpoena from Nexon, which seeks user data in a piracy case. Discord argues that complying would violate users’ First Amendment rights, while Nexon insists the information is crucial to its copyright enforcement efforts…

Photonic Data Centers Promise Faster AI Model Training
Lightmatter secures $400 Million in funding to implement their photonic interconnect layer in data centers. This technology promises faster AI model training by streamlining communication between GPUs, reducing latency, and enhancing scalability, likely improving AI response times as well…

Build Human-Like Voice Agents With An API Call
Quickly and easily create AI voice agents that listen, think, and respond in real-time, as naturally as a human can. Powered by the fastest, most performant speech recognition and voice synthesis models, Deepgram’s Voice Agent API

The AI Travel Assistant That Saves You Money 💸

AI Haggler is a newly created web app that checks hotel availability and negotiates the best prices for you.

Just input the hotel phone numbers and the AI agent calls to verify prices, ask about availability, and negotiate discounts for you. Users can view call reports and decide whether or not to book the reservation.

The app offers 10 credits for $5 USD and supports 25 languages, making it accessible for almost anybody. If a hotel doesn’t respond, credits can be redeemed for future use.

Blockchain and AI are Getting Married 👰

Real-time data instantly informs decisions in areas like banking, healthcare, and navigation. When integrated with AI and blockchain, it powers intelligent contracts that autonomously act on real-world data.

GenLayer’s intelligent contracts go beyond traditional smart contracts, enabling decentralized apps (dApps) to automate tasks like insurance payouts and lending based on real-time conditions.

This merging of technologies will reshape how industries operate, making systems smarter and more autonomous.

Together with Deepgram

Build Human-Like Voice Agents With An API Call

Quickly and easily create AI voice agents that listen, think, and respond in real-time, as naturally as a human can.

Powered by the fastest, most performant speech recognition and voice synthesis models, Deepgram’s Voice Agent API delivers:

The API provides:

Natural-sounding conversations;
Smooth interruption handling;
More control – choose from open source, closed source, or BYO LLM;
Low cost to scale with confidence.

Sign up for early access.

Snack Quiz: Choose The Real Image 🔍

Can you tell which image is real?

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Atlas by Boston Dynamic Gets a Brain Transplant 🧠

Atlas doing pushups

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute are collaborating to integrate artificial intelligence into Atlas, the humanoid robot.

By leveraging TRI’s large behavior models (LBMs), which are similar to large language models, the goal is to enhance the robot’s ability to perform real-world tasks with fewer training cases.

This partnership is a crucial step toward developing general-purpose robots that can learn and adapt to human tasks autonomously. Tesla’s Optimus has a competitor… 🤖

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

if you saw that notice about a Terms of Service update, this is the main clause it changed.

it explicitly lets twitter use your posts and any attached media — including images, videos, and their audio — for the training of AI models like Grok.

it will be in effect November 15. pic.twitter.com/tuQsmclv3a

— ryan fae (@RhinozzCode) October 16, 2024

X(Formerly Twitter)’s ToS Update Allows AI Training on Your Data: X’s new Terms of Service update gives the platform a worldwide, royalty-free permission to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute your content for any purpose, and the right to use your content for AI and machine learning training for Grok.

French Welfare Algorithm Faces Discrimination Lawsuit: A coalition of human rights groups is suing the French government, claiming its welfare fraud detection algorithm discriminates against disabled people and single mothers. The case challenges privacy and discrimination violations in the use of AI for public services.

Mistral Launches Edge-Focused AI Models For Devices: Mistral unveils its “Les Ministraux” AI models, designed to run on edge devices like laptops and phones. With local, privacy-first processing in mind, these models offer low-latency solutions for tasks like on-device translation and autonomous robotics.

NASA’s Stylish New Space Suits: Prada collaborates with Axiom Space to design spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission. Their innovative approach boosts comfort and performance, merging fashion with space exploration. The AxEMU suit, tailored for lunar conditions, will be used for moonwalks in 2026.

Nintendo 64 Gets a Reboot to 4K Resolution: The Analogue 3D, a modern take on the Nintendo 64, is set to launch in early 2025 at $249.99. It will upscale classic games to 4K and supports original cartridges, controllers, and Bluetooth. You can preorder yours starting October 21st.