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Monday’s top story: Amazon is powering its new version of Alexa with Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, instead of using their own, in-house models.

🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🤖 Is Alexa becoming Claude?

2. 🚀 How to 3X your outreach reply rate

3. 🫁 Google saving lives with AI

4. 💼 How to become an AI Consultant

5. 🧠 How to gain insight into your customers using ChatGPT

6. 🔥 Amazon’s major robotic move

7. ⚠️ Google tightens election security

Read Time: 5 minutes

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VOICE ASSISTANTS

🤖 Is Alexa becoming Claude?

Our Report: Amazon’s new and improved voice assistant, Alexa (dubbed the “Remarkable Alexa”)—which is expected to launch mid-October—will reportedly be powered by Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, not Amazon’s in-house AI models.

🔑 Key Points:

• “Remarkable Alexa” will launch with conversational shopping tools, aggregated news stories, a child-focused chatbot, and an improved home automation hub that remembers preferences/routines without prompts.

• Early versions of the re-vamped Alexa—which were powered by Amazon’s in-house AI models—struggled with words and responsiveness, often taking “six or seven seconds to acknowledge a prompt and reply.”

• Amazon is reportedly planning to charge $5-10 p/m for the new version—but will still offer the current “Classic Alexa” for nothing—and is expected to demo the upgraded assistant in September, at its annual event.

🤔 Why you should care: Although it's common for tech companies to partner up to improve their products (a classic would be Apple and Microsoft partnering with OpenAI to use ChatGPT in their products) Amazon’s decision to integrate Claude into Alexa comes after it invested $4B into Anthropic last year—gaining a minority stake—and, as a result, is now facing an antitrust investigation by the UK’s competition regulators.

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HEALTH

🫁 Google saving lives with AI

Our Report: Google has launched a bioacoustic AI model, called HeAR (Health Acoustic Representations), so researchers can use acoustic data to “listen to human sounds and flag early signs of respiratory disease,” like Tuberculosis (TB), for example.

🔑 Key Points:

• Google has trained HeAR on over 300M pieces of audio data—which includes 100M cough sounds, plus sneezing and sniffing sounds—so it can pick out patterns and make early diagnoses.

• It's also partnering with Indian-based respiratory healthcare start-up—Salcit Technologies—which has its own bioacoustic AI model—Swaasa—that analyzes cough sounds to assess lung health.

• Salcit is integrating HeAR into Swaasa to improve its ability to detect early signs of TB—from cough sounds—to improve diagnosis of TB, as over 3M TB cases go unreported, and if untreated, it kills 50% of sufferers.

🤔 Why you should care: HeAR can fit onto a mobile device and use the built-in microphone to pick up cough sounds, meaning anyone with a mobile can access health screenings and get an early diagnosis, which would revolutionize the healthcare industry—especially for those in remote places who don’t have access to screen testing facilities—and could also reduce X-ray and equipment costs.

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💼 Want to become an AI Consultant?

The AI consulting market is about to grow by a factor of 8X – from $6.9B right now, to $54.7B in 2032. 

But how does an AI enthusiast become an AI consultant? 

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• Students getting their first AI client in as little as 3 days

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Monday’s Prompt: How to gain insight into your customers using ChatGPT

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ROBOTICS

🔥 Amazon’s major robotic move

• Amazon has hired all three founders—Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan—of robotics start-up, Covariant, about 25% of its employees, and signed a non-exclusive license to use its robotic models.

• Covariant specializes in AI-powered robotic arms that can complete warehouse tasks, like bin picking, and will integrate their technology into Amazon’s operations to advance its warehouse automation efforts.

• This comes after Amazon hired the founders of AI productivity start-up Adept in June, gaining access to its technology and talent, without having to acquire the company, a move designed to prevent antitrust scrutiny.

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POLITICS

⚠️ Google tightens election security 

• Google is introducing additional safeguards and restrictions to its AI search feature, AI Overviews, its AI summaries for YouTube Live Chat, and its AI image generator and new customizable Gems.

• After previously announcing it would restrict any Gemini queries relating to the US presidential elections, Google believes that these additional safeguards will prevent misinformation around the election.

• As part of the restrictions, these AI features will not respond to election-related topics, but (as with past elections) Google Search and YouTube will have features to help people surface credible political information.

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