A look at Threads and an interview with Head of Threads Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with a community focus
Meta's office in San Francisco. Threads aims to reach one billion users.Ian C. Bates for The New York Times
Hands-on with Alexa+: fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa
Alexa+ processes language in a more fluid way. Users can speak to it as they would to a human.Graham Dickie/The New York Times
A look at Vibecoding, a term popularized by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy for a trend where AI lets nontechnical hobbyists build bespoke apps for themselves
and the joys of using AI to build “software for one.” [image] LinkedIn: Joe McKendrick : A new term to ponder: “Vibecoding,” explained by Kevin Roose in The New York Times — “Vibecoding, a term that...
An interview with Evan Williams on his new app Mozi, which raised $6M and aims to foster in-person connections as a return to social media's original intention
Evan Williams's new app, Mozi, is aimed at fostering in-real-life connections.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs
but the emerging field is mired in copyright issues Gerui Wang / Forbes : Runway AI Is Changing Animation. How To Use It To Tell Untold Stories Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : A fairl...
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
here's the key upgrades Adam Davidson / Pocket-lint : Siri is outdated, but a better version might be coming The Economic Times : iOS 18: Your iPhone may soon have ChatGPT Griffin Eckstein / Salon : A...
Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by “Hey, Meta”, are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong
Brian X. Chen, left, and Mike Isaac, reporters for The New York Times, trying out Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses.Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
Sources: Google tests an AI tool to produce news stories, pitching the service to the NYT, WaPo, News Corp, and other outlets as a helpmate for journalists
The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp …
Q&A with NYT's SVP of ad innovation Allison Murphy about the paper's plans to stop using third-party cookies, its contextual ad targeting strategy, and more
When The New York Times pivoted to prioritizing its subscriptions a few years ago, eventually growing to 6.5 million paid subscribers …
As The New York Times launches a 5G Journalism Lab to explore storytelling possibilities, a look at how speedier mobile networks could boost newsrooms
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