Hello and welcome to GG News!

This is the first edition of the GG News newsletter; we really hope you enjoy what we’ve put together for you.

The idea of this newsletter is to keep you up to date with the latest developments in the tech world. We will hopefully become your go-to source of weekly tech news and are here to cut through the noise.

Lately I’m sure you will agree, it feels as though the tech world is moving at the speed of light, particularly in the field of AI.

GG News will endeavour to keep you one step ahead. Each week we will be providing updates on AI tools to enable you to be a more productive employee (hopefully with less effort!).

If you are running your own business, we will be showing you products that can streamline your business processes. If you haven't already subscribed, then please feel free to click on the subscribe button below.

What have we been having fun with? 🎉

The team at GG News have had a busy week and thought we would share some of what we have been up to with you.

We are obsessed with the fast pace of development within the tech landscape, and it may surprise you that we don’t just mean the latest in AI…

We are currently loving the no code tools for automation over at Pabbly connect in fact join us next week to see how we have been using it and, in the meantime, check out their YouTube channel to see the amazing capabilities of this platform!!

Text to speech has been around for a significant amount of time but to be honest no matter which platform you use none of them can give consistently human sounding speech.

That is until now. Eleven Labs have somehow cracked it! and not only have they done that, they have also managed to do it in a very, very cost-effective way but don’t take our word for it, give them a try!

What’s in the news? 📰

A new Zapier survey of 1000 people who either work at or own SMEs suggests that employees spend most of their time doing things that are not necessarily productive and often fall outside of their job description!😮😮

The findings go on to suggest that the majority of workers shockingly spend less than “3 hours a day on impactful work”.

🚔👮🏻‍♀️ UK’s new AI traffic cam spots nearly 300 violations in 3 days! - The brand-new AI traffic cam currently on trial in Southwest England identified 180 people not wearing their seat belts and 117 people using their phones while driving, and all of this was in a period of just 3 days…

⚡💀⚡AI can steal your password by listening to you type!! - Cornell University researchers have trained an AI model using audio recordings of people typing and the AI learned to identify the different sounds each key makes - yes, you read that correctly… now we need to think of an 8 character password with one capital letter, one number, one symbol oh and then we need a soundproof bunker to type it in!!!

🍿🎥 The recent success of the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies have been fantastic, but scammers are now exploiting the hype by offering merchandise and free streaming to lure you in! - Kaspersky and Gadget Gal want you to stay safe!

🚕⛔San Francisco is looking to halt the recently approved expansion of its driverless taxi program after a recent spate of incidents gave the San Francisco City Attorney some cause for concern.

🤖⚒️40% of global workforce will need to learn AI - IBM believe AI will impact 300 million jobs worldwide.

AI tools

1. Eleven Labs - As mentioned above Eleven Labs is simply on another level when it comes to text to speech.

2. Perplexity AI - An AI powered search engine and chatbot to help you with queries.

3. Klap - Identify engaging topics and produce short form video content using AI.

4. Taplio - Develop your brand presence on LinkedIn. From inspiration to content creation and scheduling.

5. Motion - Motion uses AI and automation to help intelligently plan your day.

This week’s quote:

"There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”

Marcus Aurelius