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1. Salesforce launches Industries AI

2. Facebook faces backlash for scraping users photos to train AI model.

3. Open AI o1 (codenamed Strawberry) is FINALLY HERE!

Salesforce just launched Industries AI, an automation platform designed to handle over 100 common tasks across its 15 cloud platforms, including Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Service Cloud. This AI is built to simplify and speed up processes across various industries, from healthcare to financial services. For example, it can help banks resolve customer complaints faster, match patients with clinical trials, and even assist in recruitment by automatically responding to student inquiries.

What makes Industries AI unique is its ability to quickly create “industry-specific” AI agents using a company’s own data. The aim? To help businesses deploy AI quickly without needing extensive resources or expertise. Salesforce designed it to tackle the growing urgency for AI adoption, especially as 75% of business leaders fear missing the AI revolution.

Industries AI will begin rolling out in October, with continuous updates planned. Salesforce’s goal is to make AI accessible to every business, regardless of size or budget.

Facebook has just recently admitted to scraping public posts and photos from Australian users’ accounts to train its AI models. Unlike in the EU, where users can opt out, Australians are not given that choice. During a parliamentary inquiry, Facebook’s global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, confirmed that data from public posts dating back to 2007 had been used—unless users manually set their posts to private. While data from accounts of people under 18 isn’t scraped, public photos of children posted by adults are still collected.

Meta isn’t the only platform doing this—X (formerly Twitter) has also been accused of using user data to train its AI tools. However, in June, Meta agreed to halt its data scraping in the EU following pressure from privacy regulators.

Meanwhile, Australia is considering setting a minimum age limit for social media usage, though this decision is more focused on mental and physical well-being than on concerns about data scraping.

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OpenAI has introduced a new AI model, o1, designed to handle more complex tasks, even faster than humans. Alongside it comes a smaller, more affordable version called o1-mini. If you’ve been following AI news, this is the much-talked-about "Strawberry" model. What sets o1 apart is its ability to tackle multistep problems and write better code than earlier models, although it’s pricier and slower than GPT-4o. For now, OpenAI is calling it a “preview,” as it’s still in its early stages.

Starting today, ChatGPT Plus and Team users can access o1-preview and o1-mini, with Enterprise and Edu users getting access next week. OpenAI plans to roll out o1-mini to free users eventually but hasn’t set a date yet.

One key difference with o1 is its training: instead of just copying patterns, it uses reinforcement learning to solve problems step-by-step, similar to how humans think through challenges.

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