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Creators played a big role at Meta’s annual developer conference last year, when Instagram unveiled a line of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots styled after celebrities. Meta scrapped that experiment earlier this year, in favor of helping influencers make their own chatbots.Meta is now expanding these chatbots beyond text messages. Creators using Meta’s free AI Studio software in the U.S. will be able to make realistic video avatars modeled on themselves that speak and listen to fans who talk to the.
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In case you missed it, my colleagues broke news yesterday about Anthropic’s attempt to draft off OpenAI’s pending fundraising, by looking to do its own funding round. Like OpenAI, Anthropic wants to double its valuation. Whether it can do so despite weaker financials remains to be seen! On to today’s issue… It’s been a while since Microsoft told the world anything about its development of generative artificial intelligence that could... Read more ›
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Two years ago, a behind-the-scenes giant in U.S. financial markets went live with one of Wall Street’s biggest and most ambitious blockchain initiatives. Known as Project Ion, the effort aimed to use blockchain to revolutionize settlement of stock trades, when buyers fork over the cash and get share certificates. Firms ranging from big banks like JPMorgan Chase to trading app Robinhood got involved. But it didn’t catch on, a person... Read more ›
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Creators played a big role at Meta’s annual developer conference last year, when Instagram unveiled a line of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots styled after celebrities. Meta scrapped that experiment earlier this year, in favor of helping influencers make their own chatbots.Meta is now expanding these chatbots beyond text messages. Creators using Meta’s free AI Studio software in the U.S. will be able to make realistic video avatars modeled on themselves that... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a new feature on Wednesday that will allow creators to make realistic video avatars modeled on themselves that speak and listen to fans who visit the creators’ accounts on Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg demonstrated the technology at Meta ... Read more ›
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Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov said that the private messaging app will start sharing the IP addresses and phone numbers of users who violate its terms of service with “relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.” Telegram’s encrypted messaging has made the app a magnet for ... Read more ›
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Last fall, Satyajeet Salgar, the director of product management and user experience at Google AI, was huddled outside his kids’ Palo Alto, Calif., elementary school with a group of parents who were there for a class performance. The parents began talking about their kids’ favorite shows, and the conversation landed on the topic of Mark Rober, a YouTuber. Each of the parents discussed watching videos made by Rober—a former NASA... Read more ›
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