Bible Verses of the Day

6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. [Hebrews 11:6-7 ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 🤨 AI-powered scams and what you can do about them

• 💊 Stanford scientists develop new AI approach optimizing development of antibody drugs

• ⛅️ Easy Cloud News

• 📰 AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

AI is here to help, whether you’re drafting an email, making some concept art, or running a scam on vulnerable folks by making them think you’re a friend or relative in distress. AI is so versatile! But since some people would rather not be scammed, let’s talk a little about what to watch out for.

The last few years have seen a huge uptick not just in the quality of generated media, from text to audio to images and video, but also in how cheaply and easily that media can be created.

The same type of tool that helps a concept artist cook up some fantasy monsters or spaceships, or lets a non-native speaker improve their business English, can be put to malicious use as well.

This is by no means a complete list, just a few of the most obvious tricks that AI can supercharge. We’ll be sure to add news ones as they appear in the wild, or any additional steps you can take to protect yourself.

Stanford scientists have developed a new machine learning-based method to more quickly and accurately predict the molecular changes that will lead to better antibody drugs.

Published in Science on July 4, the approach combines the 3D structure of the protein backbone with large language models based on amino acid sequence, and allows researchers to find, in minutes, rare and desirable mutations that would otherwise only be found with exhaustive experiments.

Led by Peter S. Kim, professor of biochemistry and institute scholar at Sarafan ChEM-H, and Brian Hie, assistant professor of chemical engineering, the team showed that they could improve a once FDA-approved SARS-CoV-2 antibody that had been discontinued due to its ineffectiveness against a new strain in November 2022. Their approach resulted in a 25-fold improvement against the virus.

Easy Cloud News

Listen or read the following transcript as Joel Beeke focuses on the theological and spiritual significance of the inscription above Jesus on the cross. Beeke explores how this title reflects the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies and the comprehensive nature of Christ’s redemption.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

AI News

• 🤖 Google is reportedly creating AI chatbots that challenge Meta and Character AI (link)

• 🔍️ Amazon looks into Perplexity AI for alleged content scraping (link)

• ✈️ AI app Fetcherr lands $90M to get airlines on board with dynamic pricing (link)

• 🙋 EasyTranslate thinks augmenting LLMs with humans will give it an edge over pure AI translation services (link)

• 🫶 Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says he loves Sam Altman, believes he’s sincere about AI safety (link)

AI Tools

• 🗓️ Clockwise: AI scheduling and calendar automation (link)

• 👩‍🦰 Krisp: Noise-free meetings, perfectly recorded and summarized (link)

• 🎸 AIVA: Your personal AI music generation assistant (link)

• 🖼️ Midjourney: Create high-quality images from simple text prompts (link)

• 🐋 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)