Image credits: Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images A Wall Street Journal article on Friday warns that Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is already losing ground. Citing third-party data from Sensor Tower, the paper reports that the number of daily active users on Thread dropped for the second week to 13 million, a 70% drop … Read more
The time of Instagram threads topping the App Store has come to an end, thanks to an AI photo-editing app called Remini that’s going viral on TikTok. First launched in 2019, last year the app added a generative AI feature that TikTok users recently discovered that allows them to create professional portraits for sites like … Read more
Image credits: @lacontroller on Twitter It was day 76 of the Hollywood writers’ strike, and once again, comedian Chris Stephens went to the picket line. But when he arrived in front of Universal Studios, he noticed something strange. The trees outside the studio, which offer some shade from the brutal Los Angeles sun, have been … Read more
Image credits: photography/Getty Images Created to ensure free and open access to the Internet, Snowflake saw a huge increase in users during the start of the war in Ukraine and has grown even more since then. Started as an open source project by Serene (which uses its name only for privacy reasons), Snowflake, which started … Read more
Image credits: bulldog_invincible / Getty Images Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAIs GPT-4 are the building blocks of a growing number of AI applications. But some companies have been reluctant to adopt them, due to their inability to access first-party and proprietary data. This is not an easy problem to solve, necessarily considering that … Read more
Image credits: Brian Heater Unity this morning announced that it has opened the beta version of its development platform for visionOS. PolySpatial, which was announced in conjunction with the Vision Pro headset at WWDC, is designed to help developers port and create a 3D experience for Apple’s spatial computing platform. The platform is designed to … Read more
Image credits: Open AI OpenAI’s AI-powered viral chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the Internet in some cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the capabilities of bots by granting them access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and waitlisted developers, OpenAI says it will … Read more
