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You might soon have the chance to turn your app idea into a reality, even if you don’t have the technical expertise to build it yourself. And: Everything you need to know about the iPhone 16’s new Apple Intelligence features.

🎧️ New Podcast: Cofounder of WeWork Labs and VC Jesse Middleton tells us how WeWork lost $47Bn and shares his predictions for the future of AI. Check it out: Apple, Spotify, YouTube 

Today’s Insights

• Apple’s AI-focused iPhone event

• Frontier: Building apps with AI

• Tutorial: Retouch and edit images with AI

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Spa day

NEXT IN AI

All of the AI features coming to Apple devices

For months, the AI revolution has been in full swing on Android devices — as iPhone users watch enviously from the sidelines. But at Tuesday’s highly-anticipated Glowtime event, Apple set out to prove that its new AI features will be well worth the wait. 

Here’s everything you’ll be able to do with the new, AI-powered iPhone 16:

• Generate messages or refine your writing in any app; receive summarized notifications, emails, and meeting notes

• Create custom emojis and images by typing in a prompt

• Find specific images with an advanced photo and video search function 

• Talk to an upgraded Siri, which can perform actions across your settings and apps (i.e. “Send Erica the photos from Saturday’s barbecue,” or “Check to see whether mom’s flight is delayed”)

• Take a picture of an upcoming event or a new restaurant to find more information about it — or ask the newly integrated ChatGPT to help you solve a math problem by pointing your camera at it

What about other devices? With built-in transformers, the new Apple Watch will include advanced machine learning to help users detect whether they have sleep apnea. AirPods will use AI to cut out background noise during phone calls; they can also be used as clinical-grade hearing aids. 

What else is new? Set to release on September 20, the iPhone 16 Pro will feature a 16-core neural engine for AI-intensive processes — like advanced color correction in real time or audio mixing that lets you isolate different voices in a recording. The first set of Apple Intelligence tools will be available in beta starting next month, with more features rolling out throughout the year.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Replit Agent helps non-coders build apps with text prompts

While AI coding assistants like Cursor and Github Copilot have been game-changers for programmers, you have to speak the language of code to get much use out of them — and beginners might not know where to start. That’s because there’s a lot more that goes into coding than just the code itself. You have to weed out bugs, track updates, test user scenarios, and make sure your app can interact with other platforms.

Now, a platform called Replit Agent wants to make the app development process more user-friendly. It’ll reportedly not only write the code for you but take care of the testing and deployment, too. Early users have already generated Wordle replicas, prompt engineering databases, and product sign-up pages with the tool. It also represents a big step toward human-level intelligence: OpenAI co-founder Anderej Karpathy put it in his “‘feel the AGI’ category,” since it can make multi-step decisions on its own.

🎧️ DECODING THE FUTURE

How WeWork lost $47Bn and predictions for the future of AI

Jesse Middleton is the cofounder of WeWork Labs and one of the first 5 employees at WeWork. He's also an early-stage tech investor backing tons of AI companies.

With a journey that spans from tinkering with early Apple computers to helping scale WeWork from a small team to a global phenomenon, Jesse brings a unique perspective to how the next big AI companies will be built. In our conversation, we discuss:

• The wild early days of WeWork and lessons learned from its rise and fall

• How culture and focus built WeWork into a global company

• How Jesse evaluates AI startup investments

• The explosive growth of AI and its potential to transform industries

• Predictions for AI's impact on regulated industries and creative fields

• The rise of Small Language Models (SLMs) and agentic AI

• Thoughts on AGI and how it could change everything

Check it out: Apple, Spotify, YouTube

THE AI ACADEMY

How to retouch and edit images with AI

• Go to Freepik Picasso and sign up to get credits.

• Now select Retouch from the menu, it will take you to the editor.

• Upload your source image and select the area that you want to retouch using the brush.

• Give it a prompt to replace it with anything you want.

For instance, I uploaded an image on the left, selected the hair and eyes area, and prompted it to change the hair color to blonde and the eye color to grey.

• You can use this tool to retouch or edit any part of your image by simply writing a prompt in seconds.

• You’ll get 5 images to choose the one you like the most. You can export the image and share it with others.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

• Sunshine Sums: Miami-based AI accounting startup Finally raised $200M in funding and credit in a Series B round.

• Sounds Familiar: Amazon’s Audible platform will soon let narrators clone their voices, then use their AI replicas to generate audiobooks.

• Neural Negotiation: Tesla reportedly considered licensing xAI’s models to build its self-driving systems in exchange for a share of its revenue — although Elon Musk denied that claim.

• In the Clear: Getty Images has released a repository of commercially safe images so that AI startups don’t have to worry about copyright infringement while training their LLMs.

PRODUCTIVITY

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Reminders

Prompt: Compose a friendly and informative reminder email for [your upcoming appointment or event]. Include essential details such as date, time, location, and any necessary preparations. Encourage prompt attendance and express anticipation for the meeting.

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AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Spa Day

Midjourney Prompt: A close-up shot of an elegant spa setting featuring a wooden bathtub with white walls anda beige-colored carpet on the floor. A small tableis placed next to it, holding two candles in pasteyellow shades, some facial cream jars, books face washcloths, an exquisite brush, a towel, anda magazine. The lighting creates soft shadowshighlighting details like textures and colorscreating a tranquil atmosphere for self-care activities.
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