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Happy Thursday everyone! Welcome to AI Weekly Digest 📬 Your essential AI briefing, carefully curated by me, Rubén Colomer, AI Specialist and GP at Next Tier Ventures. Stay ahead of the curve with the latest AI breakthroughs, key funding news, innovative tools, and thought-provoking reads - it's all here! News 🗞️📰 In the most prominent stories this week: 👉 Generative AI promises billions in savings for the public sector through automation, as highlighted by a Google Cloud report. 👉 Young leaders are embracing AI, with 98% predicting transformative impacts on industries within five years. 👉 Virgin Media O2's Daisy, an AI "grandma," is fighting scammers with charm 👉 Beatles’ AI-assisted track "Now and Then" earns Grammy nominations, and many more! Funding 💼💸 This week, startups like Cyera, Enfabrica, Cradle, Wordware, Spines, Keychain, Eden AI, Rosie AI, Theo AI, and FertilAI raised funding from prominent investors including Accel, Sapphire Ventures, IVP, Felicis, Y-Combinator, Zeev Ventures, and more. These companies are advancing sectors ranging from data security and protein design to legal tech and publishing, showcasing the diverse applications of AI across industries. M&A 💰 In the mergers and acquisitions landscape, Crossmint acquired Mordisco, Snowflake bought Datavolo and Medtronic’s acquisition of Fortimedix Surgical. Interesting Reads 💡🤔 Among this week’s top reads, explore the "State of Europe Tech 2024, Benedict Evans’ "AI and Everything Else", while another feature unveils hidden ways AI operates in cities. Learn how Kraft Heinz leverages AI for supply chain efficiency, and discover insights from the State of AI Startups 2024. Startups / Tools 🧰🛠️ This week’s tools spotlight includes Julius, an AI platform for data analysis; Rosie, simplifying Excel workflows with AI; Dora AI, a web design tool powered by prompts; Virbo, an AI-driven video marketing platform; Suno’s v4 update for music creation; and Artisse, a photo-editing app for realistic and personalized images. People mentioned in this newsletter: Yotam Segev, Rochan Sankar, Stef van Grieken, Elise de Reus, Filip Kozera, Yehuda Niv, Lev David, Niv Ovdat, Nir Kenner, Oisin Hanrahan, Umang Dua, Jordan Weitz, Taha Zemmouri, Olivier Pomel, Dennis Jiang, Andrew Tamura, Alex Alben, Patrick Ip, Tiago Luchini, Rohi Hourvitz, Agustín Armellini Fischer, Joe Witt, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Andreu M. Climent, Ignasi Belda, Mikel Artetxe, Patricia Pastor, Paco Illueca, Jordi Massaneda Fontbona, Anna Latorre Garcia, Desirée Alayza Serra