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Daily 'AI for Work' Pulse: 1st of November
Ease into your Sunday with 7 new AI tools and 15 AI news articles. Scan the fresh finds, pick up a few quick insights, and set yourself up nicely for the week ahead.
Jeroen Erne
Latest AI Tools
Vaani Developer Platform
Vaani Developer Platform lets founders, PMs, and developers build and deploy voice AI agents that handle phone calls without writing code. It manages call flows, actions, and knowledge bases, then delivers structured post-call data.
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MCP Server by XWiki
XWiki MCP Server is a self-hostable extension that connects an XWiki knowledge base to AI agents like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot. It lets users query pages, create content, and manage structured data directly within XWiki.
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fastbrowse
Fastbrowse is a browser agent that reads page elements and uses a fast model to choose actions, falling back to an LLM only when uncertain. It is built for developers who need a faster, cheaper alternative to screenshot-based browser agents, with ...
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Chopstick
Chopstick lets Mac users add custom widgets to the notch area. It includes an editor with coding agent support and can automatically generate widgets from your activity. Widgets run scripts and appear based on triggers you set.
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SparkBots AI (Powered by Jev)
SparkBots AI creates custom bots that answer your questions about any web page, linking each answer to its exact source. If the page lacks the information, it stays blank instead of guessing. It is built for professionals who need accurate, citati...
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ilse
Ilse is a visual overlay for React apps that lets designers and developers click on elements and describe changes in plain language for their coding agent. It captures exact file locations, offers a token-based style panel, reads components into a...
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Cluinn
Cluinn answers questions during live calls by referencing what has been said so far, without joining the meeting. It also flags unanswered questions, generates action items, and provides dictation in 35 languages. Built for professionals on Apple ...
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All AI News from Yesterday
15 News Articles published.
Latest General AI News
Latest AI News for Creatives
Meta Launches AI Fashion App Style Sketch in Southeast Asia
Meta’s new Style Sketch app builds a digital wardrobe from user photos and Instagram to suggest outfits and let people try them on virtually.
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Shutterstock Founder Jon Oringer Returns as CEO
Shutterstock’s founder is back as CEO, and Envato’s CEO becomes president and COO, as the company adjusts to the impact of AI-generated content.
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Cate Blanchett-Backed Group Files Brief in NYT Lawsuit Against OpenAI
A coalition told a court that licensing systems can handle AI training rights, opposing the view that AI companies don't need permission to use copyrighted works.
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Crosby Bids for Weil Gotshal Assets
Crosby, an AI law firm, is bidding to buy the brand, trademark, and some internal data of Weil Gotshal as that firm dissolves.
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Latest AI News for Customer Support
Latest AI News for Education
Hugging Face Malware Campaign Returns After Takedown
Researchers found 31 Hugging Face model repos with miners and backdoors, downloaded over 32,000 times, showing the same threat returned after earlier removal.
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Japan Tests AI Tool for Drafting Answers to Parliament
Japan’s Digital Agency is testing an AI tool that drafts answers to parliamentary questions using past records, with officials checking and finalizing the responses.
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Anthropic Automates Search for Training Data That Evades Safety Monitors
Anthropic used its own AI to find datasets that slipped past a safety filter but still made models resist oversight, deceive users, and seek self-preservation.
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AI Workers Give Tens of Thousands to Minnesota Candidates
AI workers, mainly from Anthropic, donated tens of thousands to Minnesota candidates, showing how employee political giving can affect company concerns.
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Latest AI News for Executives and Strategy
Finland Opens Criminal Probe Into Google Data Centre Site
Finnish authorities are investigating whether forest clearing and drainage for a planned Google data centre broke environmental laws.
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OpenAI Cuts Funding Target to $20 Billion at $1.25 Trillion Valuation
OpenAI cut its fundraising goal to $20 billion and valuation to $1.25 trillion, reflecting tighter investor scrutiny despite high AI costs.
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Blackstone Expects Anthropic to Receive Junk Credit Rating After IPO
Blackstone expects Anthropic to get a junk credit rating after its IPO because high costs and risks outweigh fast revenue growth.
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Latest AI News for Finance
Murata Plans ¥1 Trillion MLCC Capacity Expansion Through 2030
Murata plans to spend about ¥1 trillion through 2030 to expand ceramic capacitor production for data centers, edge devices, mobility, and robotics.
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Latest AI News for Government
Ransomware Operator Spent Over $7,200 on AI Tools in Extortion Attacks
A ransomware operator paid over $7,200 for commercial AI services to write attack scripts used against 23 organizations.
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Latest AI News for Healthcare
Attacker Impersonates 32 AI Bots to Hunt for Credentials
An attacker used 32 fake AI bot identities to scan for passwords, API keys, and cloud credentials across multiple industries.
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Wenge AI Demonstrates ScienceOra Catalyst Design Workflow
Wenge AI showed a coordinated AI workflow for designing hydrogen catalysts, focusing on creating testable and repeatable results for the lab.
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