This week's most interesting stories on AI Saturday.
For your weekend reading pleasure, I offer a synopsis of interesting articles about AI you may have missed this week. As always, your thoughts and comments are both welcome and encouraged. -s
This week's most interesting stories
Shelly's Blog: The Agentic Web: Your Website Is About to Become a Workflow
The web, as we know it, is about to disappear. Not the infrastructure, but the paradigm of PageRank, clicks, and funnels that has defined digital commerce for three decades. In the coming weeks, not years, agentic AI will transform websites from destinations into API endpoints, and user journeys into autonomous workflows.
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Meta Bets Big on AI-Generated Ads
Meta has a goal: input a product image, define a budget, then let AI do the rest – generate copy, create images and video, deploy the ads, target the audience, and even recommend spend.
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Google Makes NotebookLM Shareable
NotebookLM, one of Google's most viral AI products, just got a really useful upgrade: users can now publicly share notebooks with a link.
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ChatGPT Just Got into Your Google Drive and Dropbox, Too
OpenAI's latest update to ChatGPT lets it read your files in Google Drive and Dropbox. Just like that, your cloud storage is now part of your prompt.
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Amazon is Testing Humanoid Delivery Robots
Amazon is training humanoid robots to deliver packages. The Information reports that the company has set up a “humanoid park” at its robotics facility near Seattle to simulate real-world delivery scenarios. The test environment includes obstacle courses and a Rivian delivery van.
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Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally
Last week, Google quietly released an app, Google AI Edge Gallery, that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.
Read More · TechCrunch
About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and writes a popular daily business blog. He's a bestselling author, and the creator of the popular, free online course, Generative AI for Execs. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.
