^{The latest whispers of OpenAI's evolving story have been a captivating thread throughout the tech community this past weekend.}

^{OpenAI's saga continues today as negotiations focusing on Sam Altman's potential reinstatement as CEO of OpenAI are ongoing, with board members including interim CEO Emmett Shear and Adam D'Angelo involved and investors who favour Altman's return. Shear has requested that the board provide evidence of any wrongdoing by Altman.}

^{The disruption of ChatGPT services on Tuesday added to the sense of urgency, prompting OpenAI to encourage its team to double down on product development and customer service. "It's time to get back to shipping products," a senior manager at OpenAI advised the team.}

^{Amidst the turmoil, OpenAI has made the voice feature for ChatGPT available to all users for free, allowing them to interact using voice prompts and receive audible responses.}

^{While OpenAI is in the middle of an existential crisis, OpenAI's competitors are not just keeping pace but sprinting forward.}

• ^{Anthropic has announced that the latest update of its chatbot, Claude 2.1, can digest up to 200,000 tokens at once for Pro tier users, which it says equals over 500 pages of material. Furthermore, it gains beta support for third-party APIs.}

• ^{Baidu Inc.'s revenue outperformed expectations with a 6% increase, bolstered by its AI chatbot Ernie. Despite economic challenges, Ernie's success in attracting 70 million users and matching GPT -4's capabilities has positioned Baidu as a leader in China's AI industry, with further monetization strategies underway, including subscription fees for advanced chatbot features.}

• ^{Elon Musk's new AI chatbot, Grok, will be a feature of the X Premium+ subscription service. It offers a conversational style with a distinctive personality, ready to tackle 'spicy' questions that others avoid. Recent screenshots indicate that Grok is actively integrated into the X app, hinting at an imminent launch.} 

• ^{AI21 Labs, a company developing generative AI products along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, closed a $53 million extension to its previously announced Series C funding round. (link)}

• ^{Stability AI, announced Stable Video Diffusion, an AI model that generates videos by animating existing images. (link)}

• ^{Nvidia’s revenue grew 206% year over year as demand for Nvidia’s GPUs has been exceeding supply, thanks to the rise of generative artificial intelligence.(link)}

• ^{HP Inc CEO Enrique Lores discussed how his company’s new computers with AI capabilities will help grow the PC market. (link)}

• ^{C3 AI Announces C3 Generative AI: AWS Marketplace Edition.(link)}

• ^{Spinning Up by OpenAI: It's like a digital course that teaches you step-by-step how to create intelligent computer programs that learn from their actions.}

• ^{gpt-crawler by BuilderIO: This is a smart tool that can read websites and turn the information into a knowledge file, which helps build a specialized assistant knowledgeable about that website's content.}

^{BFF AI: Ultimate sidekick for unleashing creativity, and boosting productivity. With an Intelligent Writing Assistant, Image Generator, Voice-to-Text, Text-to-Voice, and AI Code Generator.}

^{MyLens.AI: A free AI that generates a beautiful timeline of key events for any topic you're interested in, all with one click.}

^{Pitch: Fastest way for your team to create and share beautiful presentations that get results.}

^{Glorify: Graphic design tool powered by AI that enables entrepreneurs and marketers to create beautiful on-brand product galleries, social media posts, banners, ads, and videos, at scale and without requiring any design skills.}

^{Summarify: Free summarization tool that helps you create concise summaries for your PDFs, webpages, Texts, Youtube Videos, Audio Files and Blogs in 19+ languages in a note and voice of your choice, using AI.}

^{Amadeuscode: Introducing your AI songwriting helper. Explore fresh chord progressions and quickly compose melodies. Overcome creative blocks with the help of AI, and bid farewell to writer's block forever.}

^{ZYNG AI: Cutting-edge platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to generate creative images based on prompts and ideas. It helps creators bring their visions to life in innovative ways by providing unique assets and allowing for meticulous creativity with layered files.}

^{Chat2Stats: Platform that employs AI to make your data analysis easier. Simply upload your CSV dataset and use the advanced ChatGPT features to manipulate and extract statistics from your data. Additionally, you can ask ChatGPT to generate charts for a more visually appealing representation of your dataset.}