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Welcome, humans.

Some of y’all have been asking for more challenging Thursday Trivias. Fine, you asked for it. You’ll need a magnifying glass from now on… 🧐

Here’s what’s going on in AI today:

Shopify launches an AI assistant for store owners.
Stable Diffusion releases upgraded model, SDXL 1.0.
Rewind is now available on iPhones.
Amazon is bringing AI agents to Bedrock.

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Shopify Launches AI Suite To Help Business Owners ✨

Shopify is launching an AI assistant named “Sidekick” to help business owners make decisions.

The key is that it’s powered by your business data, so it knows what the hell it’s talking about (unlike ChatGPT).

Sidekick comes in two parts.

First, you can ask Sidekick any question related to your Shopify business, like “How were sales in July compared to June.”

Then Sidekick can actually execute tasks for you “automagically”:

craft a blog post announcing [new product].
discount our top bundle by 15%.
compose an FAQ for our product.
generate a monthly sales report.

Why it matters: ChatGPT is useful, but ChatGPT that knows your business is 10x more useful. This explains why every business software provider like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Atlassian is scrambling to offer AI assistants trained on your data.

Sidekick is actually one of the top AI business use cases we’ve seen yet and should be able to handle many routine biz tasks. Most useful sidekick we’ve seen since Chewbacca!

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Stable Diffusion Gets 1 Step Better. What You Need To Know 👇

Stable Diffusion dreams big and can finally show it.

Like, it can literally illustrate the words “dream big” in a picture.

Writing words used to be a big limitation for AI art generators. But Stable Diffusion’s latest AI model SDXL 1.0 (announced yesterday), can actually write readable text that doesn’t look like Kindergarten artwork.

This is a huge step forward for marketers. Now they can take any AI image and add on…

their logo.
branded taglines.
advertisement headlines.

…so you can basically create any branded creative imaginable. Sweet!

The new model also sports enhanced resolution and is easier to tailor with shorter prompts. If you’re an art geek, check out the more techy upgrades here.

Here’s how to use it: Super easy to start playing around with SDXL on Clipdrop. If you’re a business, you can access Stable Diffusion on Amazon Bedrock.

Around the Horn 🦄

Amazon is expanding Bedrock, its AI platform, to include conversational agents that can perform tasks.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepMind, and Microsoft formed a group to promote safe and responsible AI systems.
AWS launched a healthcare AI that can transcribe and summarize doctor-patient discussions.
Github, Hugging Face, and others sent a letter to EU policymakers advocating for stronger support of open-source development in the EU AI Act.