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American rapper Kendrick Lamar used deepfake technology in the music video for his new song “The Heart Part 5”. Created in collaboration with a studio named Deep Voodoo, the music video uses deepfakes to morph his face into Kanye West, Nipsey Hussle, Will Smith, O.J. Simpson, and Kobe Bryant....
In a pitch deck to investors obtained by the New York Times, Elon Musk revealed his plans to increase Twitter’s annual revenue fivefold to $26.4 billion by 2028. The following are Musk’s goals for Twitter in years to come: * Reduce Twitter’s reliance on advertising to 45%...
Coca-Cola will soon make its pixel-flavored soda, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Byte, available for sale in the real world after first releasing it digitally. The new soda first debuted on Fortnite, giving players a “virtual taste” of the upcoming flavor, and soon customers will be able to purchase the drink in...
The San Francisco-based AI research lab OpenAI has unveiled [https://openai.com/dall-e-2/] the second version of DALL-E, its AI-powered text-to-image generator that can create photorealistic art pieces based on simple text descriptions. * Introduced first in January 2021 by OpenAI, DALL-E is a portmanteau of the names of Spanish surrealist...
A new bill introduced in the United States Congress aims to re-create the convenience and privacy of cash in digital form by establishing a digital dollar. The Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware Act, or simply the ‘ECASH’ act, would direct the Treasury Department, not the Federal Reserve, to develop and...
New York-based Aether [https://aetherdiamonds.com/] is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) startup that makes lab-grown diamonds from carbon recaptured from the atmosphere. While it sounds straight out of sci-fi, the company already began shipping products to customers in the middle of 2021 and claims that it has produced “hundreds” of carats...
