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Tuesday’s top story: TikTok has launched an AI-powered ad tool, designed to increase ROI for advertisers, rivaling Meta and Google’s AI ad tools.

🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🎯 TikTok enters AI ad race

2. 🦾 How to 3X your reply rate with AI-powered outreach

3. 😲 Samsung apologizes for shocking loss

4. 🚀 How to support us on Product Hunt

5. ❓ How to generate tailored interview questions using ChatGPT

6. 🌐 Vodafone + Google bring AI to more!

Read Time: 5 minutes

FACT OF THE DAY

🤔 In 2020, Elon Musk predicted that AI would overtake humans and grow more intelligent than us, by 2025. What do we think?

STOCK MARKETS

🧐 NVIDIA outperformed the broader tech market as the Nasdaq dropped over 1% to start the week. NVIDIA’s momentum from last week continued as the price briefly traded above the $130 area, before being rejected and closing below, which is a sign of weakness. Learn more.

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ADVERTISING

🎯 TikTok enters AI ad race

Our Report: TikTok has launched an AI-powered, automated ad performance tool (Smart+) designed to help advertisers make better decisions at every stage of the advertising funnel, from creative ad development to targeting and optimization, to increase ROI.

🔑 Key Points:

• Smart+ leverages the capabilities of TikTok’s Symphony AI model (introduced in May to automate bidding processes) which has already been trained on what drives a successful ad campaign on the platform.

• Advertisers input their assets, budget, and targeting goals, and Smart+ will automatically choose the right assets, select the right audience, and serve the right ads, at the right time, to those most likely to convert.

• Smart+ follows similar AI-powered ad tools from Meta (Advanage+) and Google (Performance Max), and TikTok has reported that (based on internal data) advertisers saw a 52% Return On Ad Spend (ROAS), after using it.

🤔 Why you should care: Smart+ provides advertisers with flexible automation (unlike Advantage+ and Performance Max), meaning they can pick and choose which AI features they use to optimize their ad campaigns and don’t have to hand over too much control to the platforms’ unpredictable algorithms, but there are concerns that while AI tools like Smart+ might enhance performance, they often lack the contextual insight, potentially damaging reputation by overserving ads.

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PERFORMANCE

😲 Samsung apologizes for shocking loss

Our Report: Samsung—the world’s leading memory chip maker—has publicly apologized to its customers, investors, and employees after its 2024 Q3 earnings came in at a disappointing and surprising $6.78B ($900M short of analysts' expectations), compared with the $2.43T it made in Q3, last year.

🔑 Key Points:

• The AI hype cycle initially boosted revenue last quarter, with a 15x revenue increase, earning it $10.44T, with future growth expected to be driven by the sale of its high-bandwidth memory chips to NVIDIA.

• However, sales of its high-end, advanced memory chip—HBM3E, capable of handling major AI workloads—to an unidentified customer have been delayed, enabling competitors such as SK Hynix to step in.

• Analysts also believe that its slow entry into the AI chip market has increased its reliance on traditional, lower-margin chips, making it more vulnerable to competition, especially from China.

🤔 Why you should care: The disappointing Q3 results highlight the challenges Samsung is facing as it battles increasing competition from both conventional and advanced chip manufacturers which threaten to take its title of ‘the world's biggest memory chipmaker’, which it’s held onto for three decades.

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🚀 Chatnode Launches Now On Product Hunt!

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With Chatnode, it's now even easier to build advanced AI chatbots that deeply understand your business, enhance your customer support, and serve as AI sales agents.

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Tuesday’s Prompt: How to generate tailored interview questions using ChatGPT

Type this prompt into ChatGPT:

Results: After typing this prompt, you will get a list of interview questions that reflect your company’s values and culture.

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PARTNERSHIPS

🌐 Vodafone + Google bring AI to more!

• Vodafone has signed a 10-year deal with Google (further expanding its existing strategic partnership) to bring Google’s AI into its new services, devices, and TV experiences for customers in Europe and Africa.

• The partnership will bring increased storage, security, and AI features to Vodafone customers in 15 countries (and partners in 45 global markets), and bring connectivity services to Google, to improve workforce productivity.

• This partnership follows a $1.5B deal Vodafone signed with Microsoft, in January this year, which resulted in Vodafone giving up its own European data centers to use Microsoft's Azure cloud services.

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