Zuckerberg sees AI everywhere. Geoffrey Hinton is new darling of the media, they want catastrophic predictions 🔐 #WEEKLY ~ May 7th
Elon Musk threatens NPR. Mamut.cz in bankruptcy and no resolution in sight. The death of BuzzFeed News.
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Mark Zuckerberg has a new obsession. Meta wants to "introduce AI agents to billions of people". How might that turn out? WhatsApp and Messenger will have AI chat, Facebook and Instagram creating visual content, photos and later video. (The Verge)
Meta's Reality Labs lost $3.99 billion last quarter, bringing its total losses since 2020 to $30 billion (TechSpot)
Prague gave half a million for drawing the NFT and sold them for 23 thousand, but in total it is 960 thousand wasted. The nonsensical idea is the brainchild of Prague City Tourism and The Future Bakery of Petr Topinka and Alex Braun. (Czech Crunch)
Elon Musk is threatening NPR to give their Twitter account to another company. Absurd theater that started with Musk personally writing to one of the journalists and continued with a strange email exchange with management. It all started with Musk adding the label "state-controlled media" to (not only) the NPR account even though it wasn't true. So NPR and other media outlets stopped posting news on Twitter. (NPR, Engadet, Reuters)
Mamut.cz in decline: looking for trucks full of iPhones and dealing with fake signatures on contracts. The incredible story of the e-shop connected to the family of the founder of Unicorn continues, but you won't find much new in the article on Lupa. (Lupa.cz, HN)