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What if AI could be both fast and thoughtful—without making you pick one over the other? Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet does just that, giving you instant answers when you need speed and deeper reasoning when you need depth.

In short, no more trade-offs—just smarter, more flexible AI on your terms.

Here’s what we have for you today:

• 🤯 Anthropic’s New AI: The AI That Lets You Control How Long It Thinks.

• 💽 1,000 Artists Drop ‘Silent Album’ to Protest UK’s AI Copyright Sell-Out.

• 💼 12 Creative side hustles (and how AI can help you start them).

• 🔗 5 ways Microsoft’s Copilot AI extension for Chrome is actually useful.

• 🤖 ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: LinkedIn posts that drive engagement.

 🤯 Anthropic’s New AI: The AI That Lets You Control How Long It Thinks.

Ever wish AI could slow down a bit more than it already does and actually think before answering—like a human (or at least a human on their second cup of coffee)?

Well, Anthropic’s new Claude 3.7 Sonnet is here to do just that.

Dubbed the first-ever “hybrid AI reasoning model,” it can either fire off instant answers or take its time to “think” things through—depending on how patient you are.

And here’s the kicker: you get to decide how long it thinks.

Whether you want a quick response or prefer it to marinate on your question like a philosopher lost in thought, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the first AI that lets you tweak how long it spends thinking.

Basically, it’s the difference between a quick Google search and a deep dive into an academic rabbit hole.

So, What’s the big deal?

Most AI models today force you to choose between speed and reasoning—kind of like deciding between a fast-food burger and a home-cooked meal.

Anthropic wants to change that. Instead of making you pick between “fast but shallow” or “slow but smart,” Claude 3.7 Sonnet gives you both in a single model.

But Of course, deeper thinking comes at a price.

Paid users get full access to the reasoning features, while free users get a more basic version—though even that’s an upgrade from Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

That said, Claude 3.7 Sonnet isn’t cheap.

It costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens—way more expensive than OpenAI’s o3-mini or DeepSeek’s R1. (For context, that’s enough to feed it the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy for just three bucks.)

But before you cry “highway robbery,” keep in mind those other models are only built for reasoning, while Claude 3.7 Sonnet does both instant and deep thinking.

Performance-wise, it’s already beating the competition, it scored:

• 62.3% accuracy on the SWE-Bench coding test (beating OpenAI’s o3-mini at 49.3%).

• 81.2% accuracy in AI-driven retail interactions (outperforming OpenAI’s o1 at 73.5%).

• 45% fewer unnecessary refusals—Claude 3.7 Sonnet is less likely to say, “I can’t answer that.”

Oh, and Anthropic didn’t stop there. They also introduced Claude Code, a new agentic developer tool that lets you modify, test, and push code using plain English.

Think of it like an AI-powered coding assistant that works directly in your terminal. But hey, It’s in limited beta, so good luck getting in early.

The bottom line? 

Anthropic has historically been cautious in the AI race, focusing on safety and reliability over speed.

But with AI labs cranking out new models at breakneck speed, they’re stepping up their game.

The question is, how long can they hold the lead? OpenAI is rumored to be working on its own hybrid AI, set to launch in a few months.

For now, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is probably the smartest chatbot in the room. But then in AI, the top spot never lasts for long.

[Find out more here.]

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 💽 1,000 Artists Drop ‘Silent Album’ to Protest UK’s AI Copyright Sell-Out.

Imagine a music album where every track is just… silence.

That’s exactly what a thousand musicians—including Kate Bush, Hans Zimmer, Annie Lennox, and Damon Albarn—have done to protest the UK’s latest copyright move.

Their album, “Is This What We Want?”, isn’t just empty soundwaves—it’s a loud statement against AI companies using artists' work without permission or payment.

The UK government wants to make it easier for AI developers to train their models on copyrighted music, art, and writing—unless creators actively opt-out.

But here’s the catch:

There’s no clear way to do that, and no way to know if your work is already being used. To artists, this feels like legalized theft.

So, in response, they’ve dropped an album filled with the sounds of empty studios, quiet performance spaces, and even a composer’s cats roaming around.

But the most powerful part? 

The track titles spell out a direct message: “The British government must not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies.”

This protest is just one piece of a growing global backlash.

A petition against AI training without consent—led by musician-turned-tech-advocate Ed Newton-Rex—has racked up over 47,000 signatures, with nearly 10,000 joining in just the past five weeks.

Some artists are now considering moving their work to countries with stronger copyright protections, while others are simply choosing to stop sharing their work online altogether.

And it’s not just talk

Newton-Rex, who once built an AI music platform himself, now runs a nonprofit certifying companies that don’t exploit artists’ work.

Meanwhile, co-organizer Thomas Hewitt Jones took his frustration to the next level, literally throwing a keyboard into a harbor during a recent protest (don’t worry, he fished it out—but it didn’t survive).

The silent album will be available on streaming platforms starting Tuesday, with all proceeds going to the charity Help Musicians.

Is this a wake-up call for policymakers, or will AI companies keep training on artists' work with no consequences? 

Either way, the music industry just made a lot of noise—without playing a single note.

Click here to find out more!

✍️ Editor’s Corner

One of my seed investments, Fasal, just got mentioned by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Fasal is on a mission to elevate the quality and quantity of agriculture in India and, one day, the world.

I first invested in Fasal around 9 years ago. Do you know how many other investors clamored to follow my investment?

Zero. That’s right, 0.

Do you know how many sleepless nights I had to figure out how they could continue? About explaining to LPs why they haven’t grown as quickly as “some of their other investments did”? Not to mention the founders’ worries.

The lesson is - good things take time. Patience. What can you be patient for?

Cheers,

Tak Lo (Editor at The Automated, AI entrepreneur and thought leader. More at thetaklo.com)

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• 🔗 5 ways Microsoft’s Copilot AI extension for Chrome is actually useful.

• 📈 Grok 3 drives Grok usage to new heights.

• ☄️ Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet.

• 🌍 Meta AI arrives in the Middle East and Africa with support for Arabic.

• 🕵️‍♂️ Chegg sues Google over AI search summaries.

• 🤖 Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model.

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🤖ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: LinkedIn posts that drive engagement.

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I'm aiming to boost our company's visibility and thought leadership on LinkedIn by sharing insights on [topic/keyword]. Act as a LinkedIn content specialist with expertise in [field]. Write a concise, professional LinkedIn post about [topic/keyword], using the following supplementary information: (Paste paragraph). The post should be 100-150 words, written in a tone that balances authority with approachability. Reference one key insight or statistic from the supplementary information, and end with a question to encourage comments. Consider how to make the post visually appealing within LinkedIn's format. Here's an example of a LinkedIn post that effectively conveys expertise and drives engagement: (Insert example of a well-crafted LinkedIn post).

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