🥟 Chao-Down #323 AWS announces general availability of GenAI assistant Amazon Q, Apple to unveil an AI-powered Safari, 'ChatGPT for CRISPR' creates new gene-editing tools

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

AWS announces general availability of Amazon Q, generative AI-powered assistant (aboutamazon.com)

AI chatbots vs humans? Real customer service is worth waiting for (Fast Company)

AI Gives Enterprise Device Market Something to Be Excited About (WSJ)

Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari with iOS 18 & macOS 15 (appleinsider.com)

‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools (Nature)

Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool could help you figure out which ones to trust. (MIT Technology Review)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The Great Talent Dividend and NYC’s AI Opportunity (luxcapital.com)

Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet (theluddite.org)

Editor’s Brief: The Robotics Renaissance - Why we’re entering into an automation supercycle. (The Generalist)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

myshell-ai/OpenVoice: Instant voice cloning by MyShell. (Github)

adam-maj/tiny-gpu: A minimal GPU design in Verilog to learn how GPUs work from the ground up (Github)

stitionai/devika: Devika is an Agentic AI Software Engineer that can understand high-level human instructions, break them down into steps, research relevant information, and write code to achieve the given objective. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LEGENT: Open Platform for Embodied Agents (arxiv)

Graph Neural Networks for Vulnerability Detection: A Counterfactual Explanation (arxiv)

Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

White-Collar Recession: It's Hard to Find a High-Salary Job (Business Insider)

They Entered College in Isolation and Leave Among Protests: The Class That Missed Out on Fun (WSJ)

What happens after your country runs on 99 percent renewable electricity? (The Verge)

Don't use your face or thumb to unlock your phone. Here's why (qz.com)

Why Some US Counties Are More Vulnerable to Misinformation, Despair (Bloomberg)

Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds (The Guardian)

One Last Bite 😋