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It’s Friday, July 7, and today we’re covering the Twitter and Meta brawl, ChatGPT Traffic that has hit a dip, Ukraine that stuns the US with its clever (and cheap) use of AI in the war with Russia, and much more.

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🚀 BIG TECH & STARTUPS

Twitter sends Meta cease-and-desist letter over new Threads app (2 min read)

Twitter sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter over the newly launched Threads app. The letter accuses Meta of misappropriating Twitter's trade secrets and said Meta hired former Twitter employees who retained proprietary information. Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees. Twitter says these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information.

According to the letter by Twitter’s lawyers, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta's copycat 'Threads' app with the specific intent that they use Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Meta's competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees' ongoing obligations to Twitter.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday morning the app had already signed up 30 million users. Threads has been seen as a top rival to Twitter, which was purchased by Elon Musk in October 2022 for roughly $44 billion, and has been embroiled in controversy ever since.

Traffic Dip Hits OpenAI's ChatGPT (3 min read)

The rapid ascent of OpenAI's ChatGPT in web traffic hit a stumbling block last month. After setting the tech world on fire, ChatGPT's traffic finally dipped for the first time, revealing the inevitable plateau after a meteoric rise for the artificial intelligence.

According to a report shared by SimilarWeb, Global traffic to OpenAI website experienced a 10% drop, with unique visitors seeing a decrease of 6%. ChatGPT still ranks higher than key competitors in attracting worldwide visitors, namely Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Character.AI, a standalone AI chatbot site.

The reduced interest in ChatGPT and its peers suggests a shift in the AI chatbot market. Novelty is no longer the driving force; now, the emphasis is on proving its true value.

🧑‍🚀 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

Ukraine gained advantage in war against Putin with custom-built AI: 'unprecedented testing ground' (3 min read)

Ukraine has developed and implemented its own artificial intelligence (AI) platforms under the most stringent conditions to create something beyond what Western militaries have considered possible. AI has quietly played a significant role in how Ukraine has managed to perform so well against a larger and seemingly stronger opponent in Russia, providing the smaller nation a wide range of advantages it might not otherwise have.

• It has helped the military track down men suspected of war crimes

• The technology helped Ukrainian troops distinguish between Iranian-made Shahed 136 drones, known as the kamikaze drone, and standard missiles.

• The AI helped improve the targeting and efficacy of guided-laser bombs.

The most impressive feat that Ukraine accomplished through its AI development was the fact that the engineers did all of this on a fraction of the budget that American companies have used.

The Generative AI Revolution: A Glimpse into the Future of Work (4 min read)

The explosion of interest in artificial intelligence has drawn attention not only to the astonishing capacity of algorithms to mimic humans but to the reality that these algorithms could displace many humans in their jobs. The economic and societal consequences could be nothing short of dramatic. The route to this economic transformation is through the workplace. A widely circulated Goldman Sachs study anticipates that about two-thirds of current occupations over the next decade could be affected, and a quarter to a half of the work people do now could be taken over by an algorithm. Up to 300 million jobs worldwide could be affected.

The history of the future of work has been full of surprises; don’t be shocked if tomorrow’s technologies are equally confounding.

🧠 MISCELLANEOUS

AI Outperforms Humans in Creativity Test (4 min read)

Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically GPT-4, was found to match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard creativity test. The AI application ChatGPT, developed using GPT-4, excelled in fluency and originality in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, a widely recognized tool for assessing creativity. This breakthrough finding indicates that AI may be developing creative ability on par with or even surpassing human capabilities.

Full-stack engineers continue to be in high demand (2 min read)

Despite the recent spate of tech layoffs that has left 212,958 tech workers globally out of a job so far this year, it’s a great time to be a software engineer. That’s because engineers continue to be in high demand across the board—full-stack engineers accounted for 56% of all interview requests in 2022.

Do you know the ‘language’ of prompting? (4 min read)

If you do not know the “language” of prompting, you will find it increasingly difficult to communicate with the numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are now part of our everyday life. Therefore, understanding prompting is crucial for effective interaction with AI systems because it forms the basis for communicating our intentions and obtaining the desired outputs. A knowledge of prompting is the only way to unlock the full potential of AI systems.