Are Mac Users More Innovative Than Non-Mac Users?

Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 🤯 Apple users are more innovative

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - Figure 01 Robot

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• ⌨️ Use AI to get data for your next piece of content

• 📈 Data > Feelings

(Read time: five minutes) - Fun fact: I never change this.

Are Apple users more likely to try new technology than non-Apple users? It seems like it. From TechCrunch:

A new report from app subscription service Setapp found that 42% of Mac users today report using AI-based apps on a daily basis, and 63% claim to believe that AI apps are more beneficial than those without AI.

Are you a Mac user, and do you use AI tools?

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💰 If you’re looking for investors or advisors for your AI product. I’m interested.

This newsletter is called Bagel Bots because I am obsessed with robotics (and bagels). I have been watching from afar as Figure teased their innovative robot designs, and they just unveiled the Figure 01 robot. I am blown away.

I genuinely believe in-home robots are closer than we think.

🔗 You can learn more about Figure and its mission here.

🔗 China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous, passenger-carrying air taxis

My take: If Uber and Lyft didn’t already kill the taxi cab industry, this should be the final nail in the coffin.

🔗 Stack Overflow cuts 28% of its staff

My take: They’ll say this has nothing to do with AI, but I promise it has everything to do with AI.

🔗 Can New York’s mayor speak Mandarin? No, but with AI he’s making robocalls in different languages

My take: The future of politics (and everything) will be so wild with AI in our lives now. Buckle up for the 2024 election.

🔗 Nirvana nabs $57M to make AI inroads into commercial trucking insurance

My take: Even dull industries like insurance will get the AI bug and raise a ton of money. As Thanos said, it’s all “inevitable.”

🔗 Amazon announces 2 new ways it's using robots to assist employees and deliver for customers

My take: No one does robotics and logistics better than Amazon, and I mean no one on this planet.

Every one of these apps can help you with your company, career, side hustle, or personal project. I recommend diving deep into them all.

• 🔗 AI Parking Signs Reader - AI Parking Signs Reader app helps you save time and money by predicting parking availability in real time. Currently helping Los Angeles residents.

• 🔗 What To Pack - Enhance your travel preparations by receiving intelligent feedback on your packing choices, ensuring you're fully equipped for every journey.

• 🔗 Roast My Resume - Get your resume roasted by AI.

• 🔗 Telescope - Powering stock discovery with AI.

• 🔗 Replyze - Turn mentions into leads with auto-replies.

Check these fantastic platforms out, and let me know what you think. Reply to this email or tweet me directly.

⌨️ Use AI to get data for your next piece of content.

Data and stats make any piece of content better. As I’ll remind you below, data is a better storyteller than feelings every single time.

So let’s say you want to get stats on anything, and I mean anything. Google’s Bard can help you make any piece of content better.

Example: You want to write content about the importance of responding to reviews. Go to bard.google.com and use this prompt:

I am writing a blog post about the importance of responding to reviews for local businesses. Can you provide me with some recent data and cite your sources?

The output was perfect. It gave me essential data that can support my content piece, it gave me sources, and it explained why it’s so important.

Just like that, I am ready to create content, social posts, and more. It’s that simple.

📈 Data > Feelings

Mostly at work, but in other parts of life, we need to normalize caring more about data than feelings. So many of us, me included, believe our gut feelings are right more than what the data is showing us.

Track things. Watch the data. Make decisions based on data. It’s that simple.