After a few slow news weeks, this was a big week. Anthropic led the way with new product features and others shared great insight into actual AI use in practice by medical insurers and legal departments.
- Claude Introduces Sharing and Remixing for Artifacts This is just a quick listing of some new features from Claude, but we think they're worth flagging. Users can now publish their Artifacts (which could be code, charts or simple games) so other users can use or tinker with them. It's like a GitHub for both developers and, more importantly, the emerging "citizen programmers."
- In Constant Battle With Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I.I This is a fantastic case study and a hint at the future. Doctors are using a GenAI tool called Doximity to apply for prior authorizations in seconds vs. hours and their "win" rate on them significantly improves. On the other side, insurance companies are likely using their own AI to accept or reject the PA. Robots talking to robots to get things done for humans is only going to become more commonplace. Of course, it would be great if our broken health system didn't require this at all...
- Generative AI turns spotlight on contract management We know several large companies using GenAI to draft and query contracts and seeing great results. This articles confirms the value of this application, reporting on legal tech companies snapping up startups that have built a GenAI contract management tool.
- Independent analysis of AI language models and API providers Choosing an LLM provider and the right API for LLM access is a tough decision - this fantastic dashboard from Artificial Analysis helps you compare LLM vendors and APIs across multiple dimensions like quality, latency and cost (Andrew Ng agrees with us on the utility of this tool!). Your use case will dictate which factors are most important - we can help you think through that.
- Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click This article from Cloudflare is a brilliant piece of thought leadership. They share information and data on all the AI scraping bots trying to pull data off of websites (spoiler alert: Tiktok owner Bytedance's bot is the most active by far, though also most likely to get blocked by Cloudflare) and demonstrate how their security solution identifies them (with a specific example of how it identifies Perplexity's bot, even though it disguises itself). Something important to consider: Do you want to block these bots or let them in given the chatbot-driven evolution of search?
