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In the weird, wild world of Whatnot, the startup defying Silicon Valley’s dismal track record with live shopping, the merchants speak a unique lingo.
Whatnot is a resale market, where sellers auction off items like sports cards, last season’s suede sneakers and off-brand cologne through video livestreams: It’s eBay crossed with TikTok. So if sellers mention the phrase “sudden death” in a live video stream hawking an item, it means they’ve put a strict time limit on how long buyers can submit bids in an auc
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Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. “Agent” became the industry’s favorite buzzword for tools promising to eliminate human work. The popularity of coding assistant Cursor made its... Read more ›
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OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of an AI-powered personal device, said a person with knowledge of the effort. The device is expected to be largely audio-based, said three people with knowledge of it. When people speak to ChatGPT, the chatbot can talk back but the large language model that powers the audio version is a different one to the... Read more ›
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Meta Platform is acquiring Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, in the U.S. tech giant’s latest move to expand its AI offerings. The deal will give Manus, operated by a Singapore-based startup called Butterfly Effect, ... Read more ›
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