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In today’s Daily Report:
📦New Leaks About OpenAI’s Operator Project
🪨Microsoft Research Discovers New Materials
📻The $99 AI-Powered Necklace That Combats Loneliness
🛠Trending Tools
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
📦New Leaks About OpenAI’s Operator Project
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A new leak suggests OpenAI is planning to launch Operator, an AI Agent that autonomously writes code and books travel plans.
Key Details:
Tibor Blaho, a Lead Engineer known for accurately leaking upcoming AI-related features, uncovered evidence of OpenAI’s Operator.
Blaho noticed ChatGPT’s macOS Desktop App contained keyboard shortcuts for “Toggle Operator” and “Force Quit Operator.”
Operator is an AI Agent that navigates your computer autonomously. Basically, it uses computers in the same way that we do.
Why It’s Important:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the r/ChatGPT Reddit, “We’ll have better and better AI models, but I feel like the next giant leap will be AI Agents.”
Imagine having a virtual employee who can handle most of your tasks without needing breaks, training, or management.
AI RESEARCH
🪨Microsoft Research Discovers New Materials
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Microsoft Research recently introduced “MatterGen,” an AI system that generates new materials with specific properties.
Key Details:
“MatterGen” relies on Diffusion Models, which add “noise” (i.e., random information) to the training data and then remove it to create high-quality patterns.
These high-quality patterns enable “MatterGen” to generate new materials with specific properties, such as the State (e.g., solid, liquid, or gas) and Texture (e.g., smooth, rough, or bumpy).
Then, “MatterSim” simulates the behavior of these new materials with specific properties in different environments to test their effectiveness in real-world scenarios.
Why It’s Important:
The discovery of Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LiCoO2) in 1980 by Professor John B. Goodenough powers today’s smartphones, laptops, and Electric Vehicles (EVs).
Finding new materials with specific properties for target applications is like finding a needle in a haystack. “MatterGen” streamlines this process to fuel technological breakthroughs.
AI STARTUPS
📻The $99 AI-Powered Necklace That Combats Loneliness
Avi Schiffmann, a 2020 Webby Person of the Year for tracking Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks, created an AI-powered necklace called Friend.
Friend connects to your iPhone via Bluetooth and constantly listens to you, sending push notifications to your iPhone. For example, Friend might wish you good luck before a final exam, job interview, or first date.
“I’d view the product as an emotional toy. Constant companionship is one of AI’s killer use cases. With hardware present, I believe it creates a better emotional connection,” said Schiffmann.
RedBoxRx discovered that 54% of Gen Zers reported loneliness, and 52% reported feelings of failure to achieve life goals. Friend aims to provide a constant sense of companionship, potentially addressing this loneliness and isolation.
Schiffmann has raised over $2.5 million at a $50 million valuation from investors like Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas and Morning Brew CEO and co-founder Austin Rief.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
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🛠TRENDING TOOLS
💻Memex is an AI Agent that turns your text into code.
⚙️KaneAI is an AI Agent for end-to-end software testing.
📬Superhuman replies to emails using your voice and tone.
🛒Photoroom creates professional product images that sell.
📖Paperguide discovers, reads, writes, and manages your research.
🔮Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
AI oR NOT raises a $5M Seed Fund to detect AI-generated images for your business.
Ubiety Technologies secures a $10M Series A-1 to deploy AI-powered smart home services.
Labviva lands a $25M Series B to accelerate life science research by connecting suppliers and scientists.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Salesforce (Dallas, TX): Data Analyst Intern, Summer 2025
Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Software Engineer, Data Platforms, Summer 2025
Microsoft (Redmond, WA): Research Intern, Data Systems, Summer 2025
Neuralink (Austin, TX): Software Engineer Intern, Robotics, Summer 2025
NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Product Marketing Intern, Telecoms, Summer 2025
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