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Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations per week

Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations per week

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Facebook,Instagram,Mark Zuckerberg,Meta,Threads,WhatsApp 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Meta doesn't appear much in discussions about the best AI products these days, but its products still benefit from the continuing increase in interest in the technology. Business AI tools facilitated about 10 million conversations per week through late March, up from 1 million conversations at the beginning of this year, Meta said during a first-quarter conference call on Wednesday. This growth comes as the company recently expanded its AI Assistant pilot program for business in the US, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America.…
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Spotify offers verified artist badges to help differentiate between humans and AI

Spotify offers verified artist badges to help differentiate between humans and AI

🔥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Apps,Spotify 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: With AI-generated artists and tracks streaming on music streaming platforms, Spotify is rolling out a new “Verified by Spotify” badge to help listeners more easily identify real human artists. To earn the badge, artists must meet certain criteria. Spotify looks for an artist's recognizable presence on and off the platform, such as concert dates, merch, and social accounts linked on their artist profile. Profiles that primarily represent AI-generated music or AI character artists are not eligible for verification. In addition, artists must have…
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Netflix wants you to watch “Clips,” a vertical video feed similar to TikTok

Netflix wants you to watch “Clips,” a vertical video feed similar to TikTok

✨ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Social,Netflix 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You've heard about Instagram Reels — now get ready for Netflix clips. Netflix is ​​redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical video feed aimed at helping users discover new content by sharing highlights from Netflix original programming. “Think of ‘Clips’ as a personalized highlight that helps you decide what you want to watch or play next, without endless scrolling,” Netflix wrote in a press release. “You'll see short clips from series, movies and specials tailored to your tastes, with an easy way…
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Instagram is cracking down on content aggregators

Instagram is cracking down on content aggregators

🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,Instagram 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Instagram announced Thursday that accounts that regularly repost content they didn't create, or primarily share other people's work as photos and carousels, will no longer be eligible for recommendations through the app. The Meta-owned platform says the idea behind the change is to ensure original content creators get the credit and distribution they deserve. It should be noted that this protection was already applied to reels, and is now applied to images and carousels, which are posts that contain a collection of images and videos…
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Earth AI vertically integrates the search for important minerals

Earth AI vertically integrates the search for important minerals

✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,critical minerals,Earth AI,Exclusive 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A model is only as good as its data, and for Roman Teslyuk, the data wasn't coming fast enough. “I hate delays,” Tslik, founder and CEO of Earth AI, told TechCrunch. Over the past few years, Earth AI has searched for important metals such as copper, platinum and palladium in parts of Australia where no one expected any to be found. The startup's AI models suggested some locations that proved promising, but locating the rocks with the highest concentration of minerals was slower…
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Uber is now in the hotel business, thanks in part to artificial intelligence

Uber is now in the hotel business, thanks in part to artificial intelligence

✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,agentic ai,Expedia,hospitality,Uber,uber go-get 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Uber customers in the United States can now book hotels directly through the app, one of several new features announced Wednesday that go far beyond the company's original purpose of transporting passengers and even deeper into the lives of its users. Uber announced the new hotel booking feature on Wednesday during its annual product-rich Go-Get event in New York City. At launch, Uber customers will have access to more than 700,000 hotels around the world through a partnership with Expedia Group, the travel…
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Fusion energy startup Zap Energy is pulling a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

Fusion energy startup Zap Energy is pulling a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,fusion power,nuclear fission,nuclear fusion,nuclear power,Zap Energy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: No one said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working on this problem for decades. But over the past year or so, nuclear fusion startup Zap Energy took a closer look at its path to a working power plant and decided it would be faster to build a fission power plant first. Wait what? “Fission and merger are two sides of the same coin,” Zabrina Johal, ZAP’s new CEO, told TechCrunch. “They have…
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Satya Nadella says he’s ready to “exploit” the new OpenAI deal

Satya Nadella says he’s ready to “exploit” the new OpenAI deal

💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,TC,Microsoft,OpenAI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was asked by a Wall Street analyst on Wednesday how the revised OpenAI partnership would impact Microsoft's financials. He said the new agreement was a good deal for everyone. "We feel good about our partnership with OpenAI. I'm always very focused on any partnership and ensuring there's a win-win build at all times. I mean, that's how you can remain a good partner." He stressed that Microsoft retained access to OpenAI's intellectual property — including its models and agents' products…
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Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Meta 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When Meta released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday evening, a colleague pointed out how Meta lost $4 billion on Reality Labs, the division responsible for augmented reality headsets, VR headsets, and VR software. I yawned at first. Meta's $4 billion loss at Reality Labs wasn't surprising. It's certain. Reality Labs lost another $4 billion, and the sky is blue too. Then I realized that this in itself is noteworthy - for Meta, the losses in this unit are average behavior in the literal sense…
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SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and is already eyeing a $100 billion IPO

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and is already eyeing a $100 billion IPO

✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,robots,Softbank 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Technology companies are racing to build the infrastructure that can power the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank is reportedly planning to create a new company designed to automate the construction of that infrastructure. SoftBank is establishing a new company called Roze AI, the Financial Times originally reported. Rose will seek to make building data centers in the United States more “efficient,” the Wall Street Journal reports. It will do this by - among other things - deploying autonomous robots to help build server…
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