A study from arXiv (2311.06273v1) found that ChatGPT can predict stock market trends for Microsoft and Google based on Twitter sentiment analysis, with a positive link between ChatGPT's evaluations an…
Divine, a six-second video app built on the Nostr protocol, will open to the public on August 20, with Taco Bell as its first brand collaborator, according to an August 18 announcement. The app, creat…
Anthropic is introducing a text watermark for its AI-generated content that subtly alters word choices without degrading quality, according to a support article. The company says the change is imperce…
A critic argues that AI safety advocates who predict catastrophic AI takeover are inconsistent, noting that if they foresee the danger, markets and others would also react, and that extreme views shou…
Elon Musk joked about buying Britain after satirical site The Babylon Bee published a fake article claiming he had acquired the country to establish free speech, responding on X with 'How much is it?'…
XFlux, a new REST API for X/Twitter data, offers 1,000 free API calls per month for profiles, search, timelines, and tweet lookup, plus paid account monitors with signed webhooks, requiring no officia…
The Diff's newsletter argues that financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is most valuable for companies where granular unit economics—customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, and margin evolution—d…
A Hacker News post argues that computers and AI should be treated as tools, not attention-seeking devices, and criticizes the internet's evolution from a bubble to engagement-driven platforms, citing …
In a TechCrunch podcast, historian Jill Lepore argued that Silicon Valley leaders are poor readers of science fiction, leading them to mistakenly frame AI and platforms as replacements for democratic …
In a discussion on the platform formerly known as Twitter, users proposed methods to prevent AI-generated content, including keeping the platform 'boring' and casual, adding a report option for AI con…
Alphonzo Terrell, former global head of social and editorial at Twitter, founded Spill, a social media platform designed to serve and safeguard Black and queer communities, after being laid off in Elo…
Michael Coates, Chief Information Security Officer at the Solana Foundation, warned that AI-powered social engineering, including voice deepfakes and polished phishing, is the biggest security threat …
Tom Verrilli, chief product officer at Whatnot, a live shopping platform with over $8 billion in GMV, said in an interview that his product team was founded on the premise 'we regret that product mana…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI sued Minnesota on Monday over the state's first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology, arguing the law is overly broad and violates consti…
USC researchers developed an AI tool to identify tweets containing COVID-19 misinformation and distinguish users spreading false claims from those countering them, finding that counter-misinformation …
A Malaysian blogger, Elizabeth Tai, describes how being a minority on social media, particularly on Mastodon, leads to self-censorship and rebellion, citing insults she received for writing about usin…
A developer released Content Atomizer, a Claude skill that transforms a single piece of content into platform-optimized assets across LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky,…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang posted on X/Twitter advocating for open AI models, signaling a shift in value from models to infrastructure and AI workflow implementations. The stance from the hardware provid…
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warned on July 18 that a US ban on open-source AI could saddle American companies with AI token costs 50 times higher than foreign competitors, potentially harm…
Manoj Aggarwal, a lead software engineer at a large software company with 14 years of experience at Microsoft, Twitter, and Stripe, says AI tools could reduce the need for junior engineers but not for…