🎬WGA Achieves Major Breakthrough in Contract Talks, Wins Big on AI

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📰WHAT’S NEW!

🎬WGA Achieves Major Breakthrough in Contract Talks, Wins Big on AI

• The WGA negotiated a new deal with the AMPTP that includes significant improvements to streaming residuals and AI guardrails.

• Streaming residuals for high-budget, made-for-streaming titles will be based on viewership, with writers receiving a bonus ranging from $9,000-$40,500 depending on the number of views.

• The WGA gained new protections against the use of AI-generated material, including the power to challenge the use of writers' existing work to train AI software programs.

🔫U.S. Army Awards Palantir $250M Contract to Research with AI

• The U.S. Army awarded Palantir Technologies a contract worth as much as $250 million to research and experiment with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

• The contract runs through 2026 and will support a variety of AI and ML projects across the Army.

• Palantir has a long history of working with the Army on AI initiatives, including the development of the Global Force Information Management system and a predictive maintenance contract.

🛡CIA Develops Its Own ChatGPT to Help Analysts Sift Through Data

• The CIA is developing its own ChatGPT-style chatbot to help analysts sift through enormous amounts of data.

• The chatbot will leverage advanced generative AI to help agents access and understand open-source data.

• The tool will enable users to see the source of whatever information it provides and to chat with it to receive more succinct answers.

• This is an example of the broader effort by intelligence agencies to include emerging technologies for a smoother process.

📦FedEx Taps AI to Automate Manual Truck-Loading Tasks

• FedEx is testing AI-powered robots to load FedEx Ground trailers.

• The robots are designed to automate manual truck-loading tasks and to alleviate the complexity of stacking a wide range of shipments.

• The robots can see, touch, think, and move quickly to pack trailers with stable, dense walls.

🛠️AI Tools of the Week

💼 Zapier- Combine AI and Automation to Accelerate Important Work Tasks

• Automate workflows using natural language and connect thousands of apps.

• Connects to OpenAI, ChatGPT, Jasper, Hugging Face, and other apps.

🔥Adobe Firefly - Design

• AMAZING generative ai tool for creators!

• Features include: text to image, generative fill, text effects, generative recolor, 3D to image, extend image, sketch to image, and more.

🗓 Motion - Project Management and Taskmaster

• AI engine schedules tasks based on priority and adjusts calendar accordingly.

• Automatically create tasks using various tools such as slack and emails.

• Streamline task creation across different work platforms.

🎨AI Art Corner

Check out this Rome AI generated picture shared by @daAlexHernandez on X/Twitter! How often do you think of Rome?

🤣AI Joke of the Day

What does a newly created AI call it’s creator?

Da-Ta. 👨💻

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