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The Notebook LM from Google is simply a game changer. It gives me reasons to believe that Google is ahead of everyone in the AI race. Sometimes, we techniques who know a thing or two about AI companies and their widgets think that Google and Apple dropped the ball when Microsoft led the race by joining forces with OpenAI. I was shocked in the early days—about two years ago—that OpenAI used Google's transformer technology to beat Google to its own tech dominance game.
Google has had many failures with AI. I do not use any of their AI products directly. I tried all the goodies like Gemini Advanced to Google Docs AI integration, and they all sucked severely.
However, a day ago, I discovered a killer app from Google: Apple Grade and Beyond. The poorly named product in the experimental stage—Notebook LM—is a game changer.
It allows any creator, like me, to validate what we have been doing with something we are passionate about. For example, I am building many tools for founders, from taking public notes to using AI to manage projects most passively. Users who have no idea where to find these tools must validate them. However, I can use Notebook LM to dive deeply into my product data/contents and see how the AI sees my offerings.
This will allow creators, founders, and marketers to have a third-party, deep-dive analysis of their offerings, from marketing content to actual product videos and pre-usage validation, which will allow more tweaking and refinement of the offering. This is a game-changer!
No, this is not just to paste my PDF to ChatGPT and get a read from it. It is beyond that. Google got the mojo!
Google: Go collect $200
OpenAI: DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $6B
Microsoft: WAIT FOR OPEN AI
Apple: Sorry!

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Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, proposes the concept of social business to address societal issues by creating businesses that prioritize social impact over profit. He distinguishes social business from traditional profit-making businesses and philanthropy. Social businesses are non-profit, non-dividend companies that reinvest their earnings back into the business to expand their reach and impact. Yunus argues that social businesses offer a sustainable and impactful way to address social problems compared to traditional philanthropy, which is a one-time act of giving.
He uses Grameen Danone, a yogurt company that provides fortified yogurt to malnourished children in Bangladesh, and Grameen Veolia, a water company that provides clean drinking water to villages in Bangladesh, as examples of successful social businesses. He believes that social enterprise can inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs to focus on creating positive change in the world.

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This episode focus on how startups can gain organic audience by focusing on audience instead of YouTube algorithm when creating YouTube videos. The episode focuses on a a YouTube staff member called Todd in charge of YouTube discovery alogorithm.
According to Todd, creators should focus on audience satisfaction rather than simply maximizing watch time or other algorithm centric metrics. It also highlights the platform’s efforts to understand and reward value over quantity, using surveys to gauge viewer satisfaction with content.

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The book "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries, explores the principles of lean startup methodology, arguing that traditional business planning and execution methods are inadequate for navigating the uncertainty of innovation. The book emphasizes the importance of validated learning, rapid experimentation, and building minimum viable products (MVPs) to gather customer feedback and adapt to changing market conditions.
It outlines a process of "build-measure-learn" and introduces concepts like "pivot" and "innovation accounting" to help entrepreneurs make data-driven decisions and achieve sustainable growth. The book also explores the dangers of large batches. It highlights the benefits of small batches for faster feedback and iteration, illustrating its ideas with examples from companies like Toyota, Groupon, and Intuit. It concludes by emphasizing the need for a new kind of stock exchange focused on long-term value creation and advocating for a shift in entrepreneurial thinking to embrace uncertainty and continuous experimentation.

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Intel is developing a real-time deep fake detection platform called FakeCatcher. It uses photoplethysmography (PPG), which measures blood flow changes in the face, and eye-gaze detection to identify fake videos with 96% accuracy. This technology is crucial to combating harmful deep fakes used for political misinformation, impersonation, and adult content.
This technology signifies a new era of understanding what makes us human and authenticating our digital identities.

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