Tag: Social & Online Media
The Morning After: Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan’s show
Elon Musk told Joe Rogan on his podcast he hopes to unveil a flying car “before the end of the year.” It was an interesting announcement to make, as Rogan also asked Musk about the long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster. Tesla unveiled a new Roadster in 2017 and had plans to…
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X’s Grokipedia is online after it briefly crashed out
Grokipedia, the encyclopedia powered by xAI's assistant Grok briefly went online Monday, before it promptly crashed. At the time of this writing, the website appears to be working, and contains more than 885,000 articles, according to a counter on its homepage. Musk, who has previously railed against Wikipedia, has described…
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Slack is transforming its Slackbot into a ‘personalized AI companion’
I've been using Slack for like a decade and the platform's proprietary chatbot, Slackbot, has always been a bit underwhelming. It can deliver reminders and notifications and, well, that's about it. That could change in the near future, as the platform is testing a redesigned Slackbot that's chock full of…
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Threads is getting a ‘communities’ feature for better conversations
Now that Threads has grown to more than 400 million users, Meta is adding more features that could help the platform establish an identity. The company is testing a new “communities” feature that creates dedicated spaces for people to chat about specific topics and interests. Meta describes the feature as…
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Meta will soon use AI chats for ad targeting because of course it will
Meta will start scraping conversations with AI chatbots to gather data for the purpose of ad targeting. The company says this data will be used to "personalize the content and ads" that people see across apps like Facebook and Instagram. The "feature" goes into effect on December 16 and Meta…
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Amazon Music launches AI-powered weekly playlists based on ‘preferences and mood’
Amazon Music has just launched new AI-powered weekly playlists based on the "preferences and mood" of listeners. This just means it scrapes what you've already been listening to and extrapolates further. It doesn't apply modern technology to gauge the actual mood of users. The company says the playlists include "a…
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