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Here’s some news:

🌴 10 years after GTA 5, the first GTA 6 trailer is dropping tomorrow.

🚗 Cybertruck launched last week. Check out how it’s changed since 2019.

🤝 Zoom stealth-dropped an Apple TV version of its meeting app.

Remember the story about OpenAI’s possible AGI named Project Q? Well, now there is another AI-related product named Q, but this time it’s from Amazon. Companies must figure out a new letter for their AI assistants before it gets confusing.

Q is Amazon’s new generative, AI-powered assistant tailored for work. It’s marketed as your business expert that connects with your company data, code, and systems to create an adaptive AI that can solve business problems and generate content. 

It looks and behaves like ChatGPT, with a similar interface and user experience, but with a more defined use case and tailoring.

Say you wanted to transform a long-winded press release into a digestable blog post.

Q will search through your chosen data for things like style guides and historical content to draft up a piece that is tailored solely to your business. 

Launch-day headaches: According to Business Insider, three days after its launch, several employees started sounding the alarm over accuracy and privacy issues, with some claiming Q is “experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data.”

It got so bad it was marked “sev2” which is code for paging developers... 

About the name Q. Depending on which executive you ask, it’s either named after the James Bond character or the Star Trek character. So, maybe don’t connect it to your alarm clock, just in case. 

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• This tool instantly creates a 1-minute walkthrough for your website.
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