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🔓 Monday’s AI Report:

1. 🤫 OpenAI’s secret robot plans revealed

2. 📱 In partnership with ModeMobile

3. 🥷 Microsoft battles dangerous AI hackers

4. 💥 OpenAI bots crash website

5. 💼 In partnership with Innovating with AI 

6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools

7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications

8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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AI and tech stocks continued to show downside momentum last week. NVIDIA had a volatile week of trading, almost breaking to new all-time highs before reversing 9%.

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🤫 OpenAI’s secret robot plans revealed

🚨 Our Report — After closing down its robotics division in 2020—to focus on achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—OpenAI has re-opened it and has, through a series of job listings, revealed details on how it plans to develop its own robots, which will be equipped with custom sensors.

🔓 Key Points:

• According to the job posts, the robotics team will focus on developing "general-purpose," "adaptive," and "multifunctional" robots that can operate in real-world environments with human-like intelligence.

• OpenAI needs an Electronic Perception Engineer, who will design/develop sensors; a Design Engineer, who will design the robot's mechanical systems, and a Project Manager, who will oversee the process.

• There are reportedly plans for high-volume production (potentially more than 1M) and there’s speculation that they could be building humanoid robots, which have limbs and can mimic human behavior.

🔐 Relevance — Venture Capitalists invested over $4.6B in the robotics sector last year, with humanoid robots attracting the most interest, and start-ups such as X1 and Figure (both backed financially, by OpenAI) making the most progress, so it will be interesting to see how OpenAI will progress with this project, which sits alongside the upcoming hardware device, ex-Apple designer Jonny Ives announced last year, and the custom AI chip that is rumored to be in design.

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TOGETHER WITH MODEMOBILE

This Fastest Growing Company Might Surprise You

🚨 No, it's not the publicly traded tech giant you might expect… Meet $MODE, the disruptor turning phones into potential revenue generators. Investors are buzzing about the company's pre-IPO offering.

📲 Mode saw 32,481% revenue growth from 2019 to 2022, ranking them the #1 overall software company on Deloitte’s most recent fastest-growing companies list by aiming to pioneer "Privatized-Universal-Basic-Income" powered by technology — not government. Their flagship product, EarnPhone, has already helped consumers make & save $325M+.

🫴 Mode’s Pre-IPO offering is live at $0.26/share, and 20,000+ shareholders already participated in its previous sold-out offering. They’ve just been granted the stock ticker $MODE by the Nasdaq, and you can still invest in their pre-IPO offering at just $0.26/share before it closes.

*Please read the offering circular and related risks at invest.modemobile.com

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🥷 Microsoft battles dangerous AI hackers

🚨 Our Report — Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit (DCU) has launched a lawsuit against a foreign-based group of hackers, accusing them of intentionally developing tools to bypass security guardrails and access Microsoft’s Azure software and servers, to “create offensive, harmful, and illicit content,” monetize access, and distribute tools to other cybercriminals.

🔓 Key Points:

• The group of 10 defendants—all named under the legal pseudonym of ‘John Does’—allegedly used stolen Microsoft customer credentials to break into the Azure OpenAI Service, powered by OpenAI.

• Microsoft's DCU discovered the activity in July, last year, and has since revoked the group’s access, strengthened its security measures, and secured the court’s permission to shut down the website.

• The lawsuit suggests that the hackers targeted several other US companies and were planning to run a similar operation against OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.

🔐 Relevance — This is yet another incident in a rapidly growing number of cases where bad actors and malicious cybercriminals have successfully hacked into AI systems and services, bypassing robust security systems, and exploiting them for profit, highlighting that, as AI systems grow more and more sophisticated, so do hackers.

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💥 OpenAI bots crash website

• Triplegargs’ website—which sells body and face 3D scans—was taken down by an OpenAI crawler bot, which was scraping the site for data (for context, Triplegargs has data for over 1,500 people in the 'face' category alone).

• Although Tripplegargs states that “'you may not collect data through indexing, scraping, data mining, using bots, without our consent,” their robots.txt file didn’t specifically block OpenAI bots.

• Since the attack, Tripplegargs re-configured its robots.txt file to block OpenAI’s GPTBot and others, which didn’t stop the bots from returning, but did stop them from scraping the site and taking it down.

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TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI

💼 Start your career as an AI Consultant

The AI consulting market is about to grow by a factor of 8X – from $6.9B to $54.7B in 2032.

But how does an AI enthusiast become an AI consultant?

How well you answer that question makes the difference between just “having AI ideas” and being handsomely compensated for your contribution to an organization’s AI transformation.

Thankfully, you don’t have to go it alone – our friends at Innovating with AI have welcomed 300 new students into The AI Consultancy Project, their new program that trains you to build a business as an AI consultant.

Some of the highlights current students are excited about:

• The tools and frameworks to find clients and deliver top-notch services

• A 6-month plan to build a 6-figure AI consulting business

• Students getting their first AI client in as little as 3 days

And as a reader of The AI Report, you get early access to the next enrollment cycle.

TRENDING AI TOOLS

1. Meco is a distraction-free space for reading and discovering newsletters, separate from the inbox ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5 (Product Hunt)

2. ScanRelief converts receipts to Excel and renames files with AI

3. TestZeus is an open-source software testing agent

PRACTICAL AI

PRO COMMUNITY: CASE STUDY

How Spinify Transformed Community Engagement with AI

• Payment software company, Global Payments, needed to engage its sales team and encourage consistent interaction.

• Traditional sales dashboards weren't effective as they didn’t check them enough, so they integrated an AI-driven gamification platform—Spinify.

• As a result, the team checked their leaderboards 20–30x daily, and real-time data motivated them to track their, and their peers, performance.

• Gamification tools, like Spinify, aren’t just about creating a competitive atmosphere, they can also cultivate a positive, supportive culture.

Subscribe to our Pro Community for the full story and more premium insights and tactics.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

STARTUPS

Name: DeepL
Value: $1B
Funding raised: $100M

DeepL is an AI-powered language translator that translates and re-writes text into 33 different languages—including Korean, Norwegian, and Arabic—and has companies like Deutsche Bahn, Fujitsu, and Beiersdorf as customers.

PODCASTS

This Start-Up Has 500K Users And Keeps Growing

In this podcast, Vicente Silveira, founder of GPT wrapper, AI PDF—a tool that uses GPT to summarize and organize PDF files—reveals how he managed to secure 500K users and 3K paying subscribers and become one of the most popular AI-powered PDF readers in the world.

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