📷 TikTok's year in review is a quick hit of 2023’s top videos, songs, and people.
🍟 McDonalds is using AI to make sure your fries are fresh.
📸 Instagram has a new AI backdrop feature – here’s how to use it.
🧵 EU users, here we go! Threads has landed for you.
🎨 Figma launched a new keyboard for all your design shortcuts.
🖼️ Google dropped a new text-to-image modal to rival DALL-E.
Ever wonder what the conversion metric is from your brain's ideas to "paper"? I'd be afraid to find out, but it’s a problem I know many can relate to — even a Notion superuser.
Another productivity notes app has launched to improve your idea capture, but the demo video for this one, called Ideaflow, shows a promising example of what it could mean to be “the best version of yourself” as a notetaker.
With Idealfow, you can record your voice, and the AI parses your input and creates structured notes. Notes are organized with hashtags (#) and note references (+) so you can do things like filter your notes/thoughts later on.
Ideaflow is meant to be a replacement for tools like Apple Notes, but work alongside more robust productivity apps like Notion.
The startup has bagged $18M in seed funding so far, according to Crunchbase, and an impressive team roster, with advisors like Naval Ravikant (Angelist) and Joe Lonsdale (Palantir).
Co-founder Jacob Cole notes on his LinkedIn that the idea for Ideaflow evolved while the makers were at MIT doing research with Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web creator, among other things) on the concept of a “shared brain” to extend the human mind into the computer.
So, if you’re a person who talks to themselves, has ideas while showering or driving, or goes to events (i.e. everyone), take a look at Ideaflow.
AI builders: There's a new security standard in town and you'll need to find out what it is, if you need it, and how it works.
ISO 42001 was introduced by the International Standards Organization so that companies can demonstrate their security practices around AI in a verifiable way.Join Vanta and A-LIGN in a live webinar to learn about...
🚗 That’s a lot of Teslas: ICYMI: Tesla is issuing a remote update to nearly 2 million units across the US in what some are describing as a recall. The company agreed to issue the “recall” after meetings with federal regulators.
🎧 Meta’s new AI: Meta dropped its successor to Voicebox called Audiobox. The new generative AI model lets people use natural language to describe a sound or type of speech they want to generate.
🍿 We’re still watching: For the first time ever, Netflix has released data on viewing time across its catalog, starting with the first half of 2023. It’s a boring spreadsheet, but if you want recs on what to watch, go download it.
Whether you’re a developer, designer, marketer or just want to be more productive, here are some top tools to help you start your week off.
PRODUCTIVITY
- This tool uses AI to transform your thoughts into actionable plans.
- Tube lets you summarize and listen to podcasts and videos in 30 seconds
DEV TOOLS
- Kapstan is a DevSecOps platform to deploy secure, production-ready infrastructure with ease.
- Merlin is a unified API for AI modals like Gemini, GPT-4, and more.
DESIGN
- Snapby AI is an image generator Figma plugin for designers.
- TailGrids is a UI library and design system for Figma.
MARKETING
