Twitter pulls its Spaces group audio feature after Musk run-in with banned journalists

December 16, 2022

Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation that included journalists that had been banned from the platform. The latest drama comes after Twitter suspended several prominent journalists who had covered an earlier story about the Elon Jet Twitter account that was banned for […]

Twitter pulls its Spaces group audio feature after Musk run-in with banned journalists by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion

December 16, 2022
Artists are now able to opt out of the next version of one of the world’s most popular text-to-image AI generators, Stable Diffusion, the company behind it announced.  Stability.AI will work with Spawning, an organization founded by artist couple Mat Dryhurst and Holly Hendon who have built a website called HaveIBeenTrained, that allows artists to…

Generative AI is changing everything. But what’s left when the hype is gone?

December 16, 2022
It was clear that OpenAI was on to something. In late 2021, a small team of researchers was playing around with an idea at the company’s San Francisco office. They’d built a new version of OpenAI’s text-to-image model, DALL-E, an AI that converts short written descriptions into pictures: a fox painted by Van Gogh, perhaps,…

Mind-altering substances are being overhyped as wonder drugs

December 16, 2022
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. For the past five years or so, barely a week has gone by without a study, comment, or press release about the potential benefits of psychedelic drugs landing in my inbox. Psychedelics…

With Bling, the fintech startup revolution spreads even to pocket money

December 16, 2022

Today, banks and fintech startups tend not to provide products dedicated to families, specifically, and this has appeared as something of a gap in the market. Meanwhile the general lack of financial education and financial literacy means families are missing out on securing financial prosperity for their families. GoHenry (which raised $121.2M), which bills itself as “smart banking […]

With Bling, the fintech startup revolution spreads even to pocket money by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch