AI Chat for Kids, Copilot for WordPress, and Use Slack as an AI Knowledgebase

Links and news that'll keep you busy (but not too busy).

Morning y’all!

I’m back from New York City and small trips always remind me about how much I love my own bed! I could be in a 5-star, world-famous hotel and I’d still prefer my own pillow 10 out of 10 times. Sigh.

I’m taking it a bit easier today and so I can recover from my back getting destroyed thanks to the terrible plane rides so let’s jump into it, shall we?

• Ema just raised $36m for an AI agent for new hires and more.

• An AI recruiting tool for teams just raised $9m.

• Heeyo is an AI chat startup for kids and raised $3.5m recently.

• Billy is an AI copilot for WordPress that helps you build, write, and code.

• LinkStorm is an AI-powered internal link-building tool for SEO.

• Simply Draw - AI feedback meets art - anyone can learn to draw.

• Simply Draw is an feedback tool for artists so that anyone can learn to draw.

• With Bex you can turn Slack into a self-updating knowledge base.

• Here’s a study on the consequences of generative AI in communities.

• Google will now penalize sites that host deepfakes. This is obviously the wrong move for the freedom of the web and I think this shows how little power (and how much power) Google has right now. Eventually, I imagine that Google Search will become a thing of the past. I’m not sad about that.

• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has named Lisa Einstein as its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer.

• Martin: AI butler, like Tony Stark?

• A first-look at Apple’s new Intelligence system which is effectively a slightly better Siri I believe. Very funny results that I’ve seen on the web.

• Taco Bell’s parent company, Yum Brands, is rolling out AI-powered drive-through. The world is healing. I’ll admit that I like Taco Bell a bit more than I should.

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Have a great day folks!

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— Summer