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🔓 Tuesday’s AI Report:

1. 👀 OpenAI’s future plans leaked?

2. 📈 In partnership with Bounti

3. ⛔ Meta refuses to build risky AI

4. 🎸 Beatles land Grammy with AI track

5. 🏄 In partnership with Surfshark

6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools

7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications

8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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📈 AI STOCK TRACKER

AI and tech stocks plunged lower to start the week amid mounting bearish sentiment. Over the weekend, reports indicated that many hedge funds placed large short positions against the US economy. This surge in bearish bets, combined with Trump’s announcement of new tariffs, has significantly heightened market volatility, adding to investor uncertainty and stirring widespread concern across the tech sector.

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👀 OpenAI’s future plans leaked?

🚨 Our Report — A new US trademark application—filed by OpenAI—alludes to a new flurry of product lines that could be developed soon or could, at this stage, just be pie-in-the-sky speculative ideas.

🔓 Key Points:

• The application lists hardware including headphones, goggles, glasses, laptop and mobile cases, smartwatches, smart jewelry, and VR/AR headsets “for AI-assisted interaction, simulation, and training.”

• It also mentions “user-programmable” humanoid robots for “assisting and entertaining people”, and custom AI chips and services for “leveraging quantum computing resources to optimize AI model performance.”

• This comes after OpenAI confirmed it was working with ex-Apple designer—Jony Ive—on consumer hardware, it recently began hiring a robotics team, and opened a division focused on developing chip components.

🔐 Relevance — Trademark applications are sometimes broad and don’t always reflect a company’s roadmap—often just hinting at possibilities and potentials—so this isn’t indicative of OpenAI’s true plans, but they do appear to have set the ball rolling with the various partnerships and departments they’ve set up within the year, and it was reported, last week, that they are in talks with Softbank to raise $40B (although $18B of that is possibly earmarked for Trump’s Stargate project).

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⛔ Meta refuses to build risky AI

🚨 Our Report — Meta has released a new policy document—called the ‘Frontier AI Framework’—which is a three-stage process that outlines its approach to developing AI systems that are thought to be high or critical risk.

🔓 Key Points:

• The framework involves anticipating risks, evaluating them (eg. a "critical risk" would result in an “unmanageable catastrophic outcome”), and deciding whether to release, restrict, or halt the model, as a result. 

• Meta uses a team of internal/external researchers across multiple disciplines—including engineering and policy—to evaluate and classify the risks, and these classifications are then reviewed by senior-level decision-makers.

• If a system is “critical-risk”, Meta will halt development and restrict access to prevent data theft, if it’s ‘high-risk’ it will limit internal access and delay release until risk-reducing measures are taken.

🔐 Relevance — Meta’s new framework focuses on large-scale risks—like cybersecurity threats and risks from chemical and biological weapons—as Meta feels that, by prioritizing these areas, it “can protect national security while promoting innovation,” and it follows similar steps from others in the industry, including OpenAI who releases system cards for each of its models, which outline its safety and security activities, and Anthropic who have a ‘Responsible Scaling Policy’ which outlines the technical and organizational protocols that the company is adopting to “manage risks of developing increasingly capable AI systems.”

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🎸 Beatles land Grammy with AI track

• The Beatles have secured their 8th Grammy for ‘Best Rock Performance’ for their 2023 track “Now and Then”—which was made with AI—beating Green Day, Pearl Jam, The Black Keys, Idles, and St. Vincent.

• “Now and Then” was put together using a demo recorded by John Lennon in the ‘70s, with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr finalizing the track in 2021 using an ML technology that cleaned up Lennon's recording.

• McCartney was quick to confirm that AI wasn’t used to mimic Lennon's vocals: “Nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It’s all real, and we all play on it,” they simply “cleaned up some existing recordings” using AI.

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TRENDING AI TOOLS

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PRACTICAL AI

LIVE Q&A

❗Tomorrow: Live Q&A with AI Advertising Expert, Justin Hardy

❓ Who: AI advertising and funnel expert, Justin Hardy. Justin (aka. THE Funnel King) is the founder of Hardy-Marketing—which builds custom AI funnels for startups, small biz, and agencies to acquire customers, on-demand.

⌚ When: Tomorrow (Wednesday, 5th February), at 11 AM CST

🎓 Where: Skool

🙋‍♂️ What: Tomorrow, and every other Wednesday, AI advertising and funnel expert, Justin Hardy, will be going Live, on Skool, to answer all your questions about AI and advertising.

‼️For more information about this, our Pro community, and our future Live AI Q&A sessions, visit us at Skool.

P.S. Having built over 150+ successful funnels since 2016, Justin is also offering AI Report subscribers an exclusive advertising strategy audit. But hurry, there are just 2 spots left for 2025. Contact THE funnel king, here.

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STARTUPS

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PODCASTS

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