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In today’s AI Report:

• 🔐Cloudflare’s New Tool Blocks AI Bots

• 🎙ElevenLabs Unveils “Iconic Voices”

• 💊AI Algorithmic Framework Streamlines Drug Discovery

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

CLOUDFLARE

🔐Cloudflare’s New Tool Blocks AI Bots

Cloudflare, a global network and cloud security platform, launched an “Easy Button” tool to block AI bots from scraping websites to train AI models.

Key Details:

• GenAI has made the demand for content used to train AI models skyrocket. Data is essential for AI models because it allows them to learn, adapt, and make decisions.

• PerplexityAI, a free AI-powered search engine, was recently accused of impersonating legitimate visitors to scrape website content for AI model training.

• To address this problem, Cloudflare analyzed AI bot traffic to fine-tune automatic AI bot detection frameworks called “Easy Button,” which prevents AI bots from scraping your websites without permission.

Why It’s Important:

• Alphabet-owned Google recently signed a $60 million annual licensing agreement with Reddit to access user-generated content for Gemini training.

• Big Tech companies are reallocating resources to secure data licensing agreements to train AI models that outperform competitors.

• However, various startups with limited funding are circumnavigating the Robots Exclusion Protocol {robots.txt} to scrape content from websites without permission for AI model training.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

ELEVENLABS

🎙ElevenLabs Unveils “Iconic Voices”

AI voice generator company ElevenLabs unveiled an “Iconic Voices” feature that allows users to have text read by famous Hollywood stars.

Key Details:

• In the ElevenLabs Reader App, users can enable AI-recreated voices of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier.

• The Reader App converts text from articles, ePubs, or PDFs into natural, expressive AI-recreated voices.

• ElevenLabs reached licensing agreements for the AI-recreated voices with CMG Worldwide, which manages the estates of late-featured celebrities.

• The AI-recreated voices are only usable within the Reader App and can’t be selected to create shareable content on the platform.

• “It’s exciting to see our mother’s voice available to the countless millions of people who love her,” said Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland and Garland Estate representative.

Why It’s Important:

• “Iconic Voices” could be used in educational settings to bring historical figures “to life” or create immersive experiences in the entertainment industry.

• “Iconic Voices” offers a way to keep the voices of legendary actors and actresses alive for new generations. People who never experienced these Hollywood stars in their prime can now hear them in a new context.

AI RESEARCH

💊AI Algorithmic Framework Streamlines Drug Discovery

MIT researchers developed Synthesis Planning and Rewards-Based Route Optimization Workflow (SPARROW), an AI-powered algorithmic framework for improving the efficiency of designing and planning the creation of new molecules.

SPARROW aims to streamline the process of selecting the most cost-effective and efficient routes to synthesize the desired molecules for drug discovery.

Traditionally, choosing the best route to synthesize desired molecules relies on a combination of experience and educated guesses. This combination slows down drug discovery and creates high prescription drug prices.

SPARROW is trained on vast data regarding past synthesis attempts, including success, failures, and associated costs. This vast data enables SPARROW to simultaneously select molecules and their synthetic routes for lead optimizations and Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) cycles.

SPARROW leverages a reward system to evaluate potential routes to synthesize desired molecules. Routes predicted to be cheaper and faster and require readily available materials receive higher rewards.

🛠TRENDING TOOLS

🐝Ariglad auto-maintains your help center with AI.

🚀BuilderKit builds and ships your AI SaaS super fast.

✏️Twixify humanizes AI text to match your writing style.

⚙️Bizplanner generates a professional business plan in minutes.

📊Hirebase uses AI to scan job opportunities in real-time directly from company pages.

🔮Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.

💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

• Heymax AI secures a $2.6M Seed Round to give users free vacations.

• Deepfakes will cost over $40B by 2027 as adversarial AI gains momentum.

• Bitmagic raises a $4M Seed Round to generate 3D games from consumer prompts.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Numerade (Remote): Data Scientist Intern, Summer 2025

• Ventas (Chicago, IL): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

• Salesforce (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering AMTS/MTS, New Grad

• Veeva Systems (Pleasanton, CA): Associate Software Engineer, New Grad

• Twelve Labs (San Francisco, CA): Partnership Lead, Media and Entertainment

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BRAND GROWTH

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