Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 🤯 We made the front page!

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - Microsoft Loop

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 📊 Become an Excel expert with ChatGPT, and then have it do all the work

• 💰 I started a $100,000/year business for my wife using AI

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

Hey, we made the New Yorker! We being “AI and AI lovers.” Anyway, I love the cover, and it’s a perfect encapsulation of using AI tools with shitty prompts.

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I have tested every single notes and productivity app on Earth over the last two years. I’m not kidding. I have built second brains on five platforms, yet here I am, using Apple Notes and Reminders and living my best life.

I am not a Microsoft person, but Loop looks pretty damn clean.

This is genius because Teams has an insane number of users, and this feels like such a natural add-on to the platform. Apple, if you’re listening, please make one of these, too.

🔗 You can read more about Loop here.

🔗 AI Will Create—and Destroy—Jobs. History Offers a Lesson.

My take: I believe we’re about to see the most significant change in work since the Industrial Revolution.

🔗 Sam Altman’s Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse

My take: There is a lot of recent smoke about AGI being achieved at OpenAI. Where there is a lot of smoke, there is usually fire.

🔗 ‘Star Wars’ Officially Replaces Actor James Earl Jones as the Voice of Darth Vader After 45 Years

My take: The actor and writer strikes were all about being against this, but I think many older actors will happily take the payday for their AI likeness.

🔗 Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea

My take: Everyone will celebrate in the streets about a three-day workweek until they find out their companies only want to pay them for three days of work.

🔗 A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI—and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month

My take: Dude, the future is going to be so damn weird. Go look at this profile; this person IS NOT REAL.

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

• 🔗 Agent4 - Agent4 lets you create custom voice experiences for callers to your business or mobile phone.

• 🔗 Spoke - Powerful, scheduled AI Summarization for Slack

• 🔗 Meiro - AI-powered builder for tests, quizzes and text games

• 🔗 Flowpoint.ai - Web Analytics Actionable, at scale

• 🔗 DataSquirrel - Auto-Clean. Auto-Analyse. Auto-Visualise. Auto-Repeat. It's: Quick, Easy, Guided, AI assisted and Secure.

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

📊 Become an Excel expert with ChatGPT, and then have it do all the work.

Good at Microsoft Excel? Wonderful! Not so great? Fine, it doesn’t matter. I was helping someone learn Excel, so they gave me a list of things they were asked to do, and it spit out seven tips for using Excel for their role.

They asked me what formulas they must know. Well, what the hell do I know? But ChatGPT knew.

Anyway, they could take this knowledge and show off their skills at work the next day. During this exchange, we also had ChatGPT create a fake CSV file and show us how they would use all these formulas in real-time.

The future is so nuts. The entire exchange took five minutes.

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💰 I started a $100,000/year business for my wife using AI.

I spend so much time teaching others how to use AI, I forget about the people in my own home and how they can use it.

I had an idea, gave my wife the blueprints, and at first, it worked. In a few weeks, I’ll share updates!