{{ First Name | Leader}}, welcome back. Today’s updates:
Turn your AI skills into a consulting career with hands-on training and real-world strategies* (More)
OpenAI releases o1, its first model with 'reasoning' abilities, which can handle more complex queries (More)
OffDeal uses AI to help small businesses find buyers and manage the acquisition process (More)
Mastercard acquires Recorded Future for $2.65B to enhance AI-driven credit card security (More)
Tools to increase your productivity
Resources to help you learn and much more…
TOGETHER WITH HOWARD CONSULTING
The AI consulting market is about to grow by a factor of 8X – from $6.9 billion today to $54.7 billion in 2032. But how to become an AI consultant?
Thankfully, you don’t have to do it alone – our friends at Innovating with AI just welcomed 200 new students into The AI Consultancy Project, which 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
As a Prompts Daily reader, you have a chance to get early access to the next enrollment cycle.
BEST LINKS
Productivity Tools
Market Muse - An AI analyzes your entire website to provide you with personalized and objective insights, helping you create a content strategy (link)
Character AI - Allows users to create and interact with customizable AI chatbots called characters (link)
Useful Resources
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How AI is changing the nature of work (link)
You can make songs in seconds with Suno AI (link)
How to build a website with AI in less than 5 minutes (link)
Find the best AI-powered app to transcribe your audio (link)
How to use Copilot AI to make amazing PowerPoint slides (link)
101 real-world gen AI use cases featured at Google Cloud Next ’24 (link)
Business leaders say AI is already changing organizational structure (link)
A faster, better way to prevent an AI chatbot from giving toxic responses (link)
Decoding the AI technology that’s enhancing games with realistic digital humans (link)
Millionaire founder: This is the No. 1 skill young people need to thrive in the AI era—it’s not coding (link)
P.S. You can still get The Ultimate ChatGPT Toolkit (no email opt-in).
NEWS UPDATES
Strawberry is released
OpenAI has released a new AI model called o1. it is good at "reasoning" capabilities beyond just pattern matching. The o1 model, along with a smaller version called o1-mini, was trained using a novel approach to improve its ability to solve complex problems step-by-step, similar to how humans think.
OpenAI claims o1 outperforms previous models on tasks like math tests and coding challenges.
Sell Your Business Easily
OffDeal is a startup that aims to help small businesses find buyers for their companies using AI agents. Small businesses often struggle to sell their companies, as they lack the resources and connections of larger corporations.
OffDeal's platform can automatically analyze a small business's information, identify potential buyers, and lead the acquisition process.
Mastercard’s AI Security
Mastercard is acquiring the cybersecurity company Recorded Future for $2.65 billion.
Mastercard and Recorded Future have been collaborating on an AI-powered service that can more quickly detect compromised credit cards, doubling the detection rate compared to the previous year.
DAILY AI CHALLENGE
In product building, how does AI help reduce time-to-market?
FUNDING & JOBS
💰 Funding
All Hands AI raises $5M to build open-source agents for developers (link)
Approveit raises $1M for payments software (link)
💼 Job Board
Head of Lead Generation at Google (US)
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS (US)
🐦 How to Start Google:
Paul Graham on How to Start Google
— #Aadit Sheth (#@aaditsh)
8:53 AM • Aug 31, 2024
🔮 Mystery Link
This link could show you Elon Musk's business secrets or how to manage your team or anything in between.
PROMPT TUTORIAL
Budgeting for small businesses
Develop a comprehensive budgeting plan tailored to the unique needs and challenges of small businesses. Consider factors such as startup costs, operational expenses, revenue projections, and contingency planning. Discuss strategies for optimizing limited resources and maximizing financial efficiency to ensure sustainable growth and success.
Business: [Insert here]


AI ART
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ETCETERA
How to become an AI consultant and land a client in 3 days
Why NASA is sticking with Boeing
Mapped: Youth unemployment by region
Rare insights from inside a hurricane's eye
10 top LEGO facts! - National Geographic Kids
25 surprising facts about the red planet – Mars
The Apple AI features that could actually matter
How Blind Soccer Is Played at the 2024 Paris Paralympics
Global warming makes hurricanes stronger, but less frequent
'Flappy Bird' is back but with a murky comeback story and without its creator
Apple Watch is the perfect technology for senior care. Here’s how it could be even better
That’s all.
Stay curious, leaders!
- Mr. Prompts
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