Welcome, humans.

There’s a new trend of taking beloved fantasy series and reimagining them with AI. For example, check out Lord of the Rings as an Akira Kurosawa film, a 1965 animated Disney film, or a cast of vintage 70s wrestling pros.

Or check out the video game Elden Ring as a 1980s live action fantasy (there’s a Dark Souls 2 version as well).

There’s even Harry Potter as an overly dramatic anime, and as a Bollywood film.

And then… there’s this:

We don’t know which is more upsetting: “Swoledemort” or “Shredwig.”

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• We share OpenAI’s favorite o1 examples and our favorite o1 prompt tips.
• Perplexity will offer “sponsored questions” to advertisers.
• Black Forest Labs will raise $100M at a $1B valuation.
• Anthropic introduced "Contextual Retrieval” for improved content retrieval.

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Here are some of OpenAI’s favorite o1 examples (and some handy o1 prompt tips!)

Earlier this week, OpenAI shared some of the team’s favorite o1 use-cases. Here are a few standouts:

An absolute must-watch: A researcher's reaction after o1 wrote his PhD code in only one hour, which originally took him ten months (the reaction video went so viral, he had to make a second response video).

ChatGPT o1 preview + mini Wrote My PhD Code in 1 Hour*—What Took Me ~1 Year

Another one: A doctor used o1 to write a “major cancer treatment project” in under a minute, a task that would've taken him days. o1 even provided at least one creative idea he might not have thought of in “thirty years.”

Aaron Levie’s take: o1 could potentially replace many enterprise SaaS use-cases by handling complex tasks, such as determining a contract's effective date through reasoning and self-validating. Levie (of Box fame) says this capability is “extremely useful for complex business processes” typically solved by SaaS products.

PRO(MPT) TIP: Ethan Mollick emphasized prompting your question in a way that an AI might find interesting, otherwise it might not think so hard.

More o1 prompting tips:

• First, have a casual back-and-forth with 4o or Claude Sonnet about your ideas. Then, clearly summarize what you want done, along with any constraints.
• Be specific about what you're asking. Instead of a broad question, narrow it down to a particular area or issue.
• When the AI gives you an answer, ask it to explain why. This helps you spot any mistakes in its reasoning.

P.S: If you want to learn more about how o1 works, this is a must read. o1 can handle problems with up to 200 steps, but struggles approaching ~250 steps… so it’s perfect for difficult seating charts!

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Adobe's new “Authenticity in the Age of AI” study reveals major deepfake election concerns.

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Adobe's recent study surveyed 2,000+ U.S. consumers about misinformation and AI-generated content, especially regarding the 2024 election.

Here’s what they found:

• 94% worry misinformation will impact the upcoming presidential election.
• 44% believed election-related misinformation in the past 3 months.
• 74% doubted photo/video authenticity (because of deepfakes), even from reputable news outlets.
• 48% reduced or completely stopped using a specific social media platform due to misinformation.

Adobe has been working to combat misinformation and build a more transparent digital ecosystem through the widespread adoption of Content Credentials—free, open-source “nutrition labels” for online content.

The Adobe-founded Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) has grown to 3,300+ members, including TikTok, Microsoft, Getty Images, Canon, Nikon, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Reuters, and more.

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Around the Horn.

Watch this robot, from Unitree Robotics, get on an elevator (the robot’s handler also explains how the robot ride on planes).

• Perplexity will soon let advertisers bid for a “sponsored question” (instead of sponsored keywords, like Google does).
• Black Forest Labs, the image generator that powers Grok on X.com, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation in advance of its text to video launch.
• Anthropic introduced "Contextual Retrieval," a new method that improves how Claude finds and uses relevant information from large knowledge bases.

Treats To Try.

Here’s a *~tactic~* to try—follow this dude’s lead and make an AI music video of your CV for your next job search…

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Sunday Special.

Today, we’re featuring a cool thread comparing Cursor (the AI coding program we told you about) to Replit, an agent-based coding platform we haven’t talked much about, but that many devs use to launch apps w/ AI.

Misbah shares 3 videos that compare Replit vs Cursor across three tasks:

1. Building a working version of the game Snake.
2. Building an AI chat app.
3. Building a calculator app.

Let us know which one you think produced a better result!

Who built it better?

If you think the results are mixed, pick whoever got the best 2/3.

Cursor

Replit

They were about equal

A Cat's Commentary.

Here’s the article on NotebookLM, in case you missed it.

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