🚀 Every Other Byte 22 April 2024

G’day,
NotebookLM just rolled out its Discover Sources feature—auto‑finding and importing the most relevant web articles in seconds, so you can skip manual searching and dive straight into analysis.

Research workflows have never been this streamlined—curated sources at your fingertips mean faster insights and tighter briefs.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Teen Innovator Builds AI for Heart Disease Diagnosis in Seconds

• $1 Million Up for Grabs at World’s Largest AI Hackathon

• Huawei’s AI Hardware Breakthrough Challenges Nvidia

• 7 AI Tools That Supercharge Your Weekly Workflow

• Video of the Week: OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Reasoning Models

🧠 News & Breakthrough Updates

Teen Innovator Builds AI for Heart Disease Diagnosis in Seconds

• The Byte: 14‑year‑old prodigy launches Circadian AI, a smartphone app that diagnoses 40+ heart conditions in just 7 seconds via microphone sound analysis.

• The Details:

  • Place your phone on the chest for 7 s; 96% accuracy on 15 700+ US & Indian patients

  • Validated in both hospitals and community clinics

• Why It Matters: Early detection becomes feasible anywhere—democratising cardiac care.

$1 Million Up for Grabs at World’s Largest AI Hackathon

• The Byte: Bolt.new’s AI hackathon kicks off 30 May—free to enter, $1 M prize pool, 10 000+ already signed up.

• The Details:

  • Open to coders, creators & students at hackathon.dev

  • Includes mentorship sessions and global pitching rounds

• Why It Matters: Huge shot at funding, exposure and collaboration for your next AI idea.

Huawei’s AI Hardware Breakthrough Challenges Nvidia

• The Byte: New Huawei AI chips rival Nvidia GPUs—30% less power draw while matching top‑tier performance.

• The Details:

  • Custom tensor cores accelerate matrix ops

  • Benchmarks show parity with data‑centre cards

• Why It Matters: More competition means better, cheaper AI compute for everyone.

✨ AI‑Driven Productivity Hacks

7 AI Tools That Supercharge Your Weekly Workflow

• The Byte: From avatar videos (Hagen) to no‑code automations (n8n + MCP), these seven apps save you hours.

• Why It Matters: Solo founders can automate grunt work and scale output without extra hires.

$5 M in 12 Months: How a Startup Used AI Agents to Scale Fast

• The Byte: A five‑person team hit $5 M ARR by automating marketing, lead gen & finance with AI agents.

• Why It Matters: Lean teams can outpace big players with smart AI orchestration.

🧠 AI for Mental Health Support

Viral Reddit Thread Sparks Debate: Can AI Outperform Therapy?

• The Byte: Thousands claim ChatGPT offered more insight than 15 years of therapy.

• The Details:

  • 24/7 availability, multiple empathy frameworks, zero judgement

  • Cost & access drive many to try AI over traditional care

• Why It Matters: AI can fill gaps in mental‑health support—but it’s no full replacement.

🔧 New AI Tools & Features

• OpenAI Codex CLI Brings AI to Your Terminal

• UI TARS: AI Agent That Operates Your Devices

• Go Viral Faster with AI‑Powered Faceless Videos

• Google’s Free Tool to Scrub Your Data from Search

🔍 Tool of the Week

NotebookLM

Meet Your AI Research Companion
Google’s AI‑powered notebook helps you discover, organise and summarise web sources—all in one place.

Key Features:

• Discover Sources: Auto‑suggests & imports relevant articles with one click

• AI Summaries: Turns long docs into concise overviews or bullet points

• Interactive Chat: Ask natural‑language questions about your notes & sources

• Audio Overviews: Generates quick, listenable recaps of your research

• Organisation Tools: Tag, pin & group notes for easy retrieval

Getting Started (Step‑by‑Step):

1. Sign in at notebooklm.withgoogle.com with your Google account.

2. Create a new notebook—give it a clear name (e.g. “AI Ethics Deep Dive”).

3. In the Sources panel, click Discover, then enter your topic (e.g. “AI bias case studies”).

4. Review the curated list, then click Add to import sources into your notebook.

5. Open each source and hit Summarise to extract key takeaways.

6. Use the chat icon to ask follow‑up questions or generate an audio overview.

Three Use Cases:

• Academic Research: Assemble literature reviews by importing & summarising dozens of papers in minutes.

• Market Analysis: Feed competitor blogs & industry reports to outline trends & content ideas.

• Learning & Teaching: Compile readings, create bullet‑point summaries & produce audio study guides.

🛠️ Toolbox

n8n Automation Template: Weekly AI News Digest

1. Pull RSS headlines

2. Summarise with a GPT node

3. Push summary to Slack or email

Grab the JSON here and plug into your n8n setup.

🎥 Video of the Week

Build an AI That Reads & Organises Your Emails | Gmail + OpenAI + n8n Automation Tutorial

Is your inbox buried under newsletters, promotions and random pings? In this step‑by‑step tutorial, you’ll learn how to build an AI workflow with Gmail, OpenAI (GPT‑4o Mini) and n8n to automatically read, classify and label your emails—so you never miss the important ones.

In this video, we’ll:

• ✅ Trigger automation when a new email arrives in Gmail

• ✅ Use GPT‑4o Mini to analyse and classify email content

• ✅ Apply labels (marketing, receipts, outreach, newsletters, etc.)

• ✅ Track AI performance in NoCodeDB or Google Sheets

• ✅ Build a feedback loop to refine prompts and boost accuracy

That’s a wrap for this edition of Every Other Byte.
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