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Happy Monday! If you’re in the Berlin area, the Product Hunt team is hosting a meetup tonight. Join the team... [Product Hunt]( [Read in browser]( [This newsletter is brought to you by]( GOOD MEWS See you in Berlin? Happy Monday! If you’re in the Berlin area, the Product Hunt team is hosting a meetup tonight. Join the team and other makers for a night of demos and fun. [RSVP here.Â]( 🤖 [Google is preparing to launch a paid upgrade to its AI chatbot, Bard.Â]( 💰 [Open AI and Apple want to pay publishers to train AI on their content.]( 🎧 [Samsung is launching an audio version of its Frame TV.]( 🎪 [CES goes live this week, so keep your eyes peeled for some new products.]( PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT [An AI that matches human speed and quality]( Google News search “telemarketing,” and you’ll find that various fraud lawsuits make up most of the search results for at least the first few pages. And when Americans are not getting frauded, they’re not answering their phone. [Pew]( itself said their response rates for telephone calls declined last year to a measly 6%, down from 36% in 1997. I’d go out on a limb to guess this is a universal experience. Can AI save the dying industry? “Robocalls” don’t exactly have a good rap. But one YC-backed company (and YC itself, obviously) is betting on the technology. [Bland AI]( launched its developer-first AI phone calling API in 2023 and recently introduced [Bland Turbo](, a conversational AI that “delivers sub-second responses, consistently, matching human speed and quality.” Don’t believe it? You can [try a demo call](, which [Chris Messina]( said “is wild.” I was personally impressed that the AI agent even caught on to my Google Voice prompt to state who was calling before pausing to connect me to the call. Bland Turbo lets companies send or receive up to 500,000+ phone calls simultaneously. It can be programmed to your liking and trained on your company’s information. Applications stem from political campaign outreach to support agents, salespeople, and more. What do you think? Give the demo a try, and let us know on the launch page if you think AI tech like Bland will change the telemarketing industry for good. [Try the demo]( Sponsored By No two pitch decks are alike, but there are patterns in format, content, and slide order that can lead to successful fundraising. Understanding the science of developing a pitch deck – clear data on how sections should be arranged and what they should contain – can be a powerful ally for founders to tell their unique story. We have gathered these insights from our platform and created a step-by-step guide with downloadable pitch deck templates. Thousands of founders have used these templates; Download them for free now. [Download now]( Monday, 8 January 2024 This Weekend's Top Products [Reiki by Web3Go]( [All in one AI agents creation and monetization platform]( [▲ 1227+]( [PH Deck]( [Explore daily product launches using AI and YC wisdom]( [▲ 806+]( [Branding5]( [Find your brand identity]( [▲ 794+]( [PH Hunters]( [Find & Connect with 100+ hunters for your next PH Launch]( [▲ 598+]( [The Bulletproof Notion Workspace 4.0]( [The top Notion framework gets even stronger]( [▲ 510+]( [CrackedDevs]( [Find remote coding jobs]( [▲ 517+]( [Maillayer]( [Send email campaigns via Amazon SES with NoCode]( [▲ 489+]( [SaaS Boilerplates]( [Discover the best boilerplates & SaaS starter kits]( [▲ 431+]( [Typeform Alternative by MakeForms]( [Like Typeform on steroids with 50x more responses]( [▲ 348+]( [Brewed]( [Build any web app with AI, just type it]( [▲ 347+]( [Discover many more]( CAT NIPS - [Digitapes lets you instantly craft photo and video montages in one click.Â]( - [AVI is a conversational AI assistant for debunking fake news.Â]( - [Stylar is an AI image generator that lets you control the output.]( MAKER'S CORNER - [ncScale 2.0 is a 1 click monitoring solution for your no-code stack.Â]( - [This product lets you monetize your GPTs by adding Stripe to them.]( - [Rely is a developer portal with an AI assistant you can speak with.]( [Tell us how we're doing]( [We're working on improving Product Hunt every day and we want to hear from you. What do you love? How could we do better? All feedback is helpful.]( [Speak your mind]( We send this email daily. Feel free to [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from these emails at any time. [Advertise](, [Twitter](, [Facebook](, [Stories](