🧠 AI Mind-Communication, Moon Landings, Threads Updates
Today’s pick
Communication using thought alone? Unbabel unveils AI project to give us superhuman capabilities. Sitting in a meeting room in a startup office in Lisbon, I silently typed the answer to a question only the person opposite would know the answer to. What kind of coffee had I asked for when I'd arrived at the office? By Mike Butcher via TechCrunch
Communication using thought alone? Unbabel unveils AI project to give us superhuman capabilities - Infosec Alevski (@Alevskey)
Russia and India Are Racing to Put Landers on the Moon. Move over, USA and China: Humankind is about to witness robotic moon landing attempts by Russia and India within a few days of each other. By Ramin Skibba via WIRED
Russia and India Are Racing to Put Landers on the Moon - Tania González (@TaniaGlezAZ)
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Threads gets retweets - sorry, reposts - in the reverse-chronological feed. Threads is adding reposts (aka retweets) to its reverse-chronological “Following” feed, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced in a Threads post on Thursday. By Jay Peters via The Verge
Threads adds a retweets — sorry, reposts — feed to profiles - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
Hated that video? YouTube's algorithm might push you another just like it. Every participant installed a browser extension that added a Stop recommending button to the top of every YouTube video they saw, plus those in their sidebar. Hitting it triggered one of the four algorithm-tuning responses every time. By Hana Kiros via MIT Technology Review
Research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube’s influential AI recommends. - MIT Technology Review (@techreview)
6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down rounds and what's ahead. At the height of the funding boom in 2021, no single sector enjoyed as much VC money as fintech startups did. But in 2023, it appears that fintech companies have to work harder to get funding. By Mary Ann Azevedo via TechCrunch
6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down rounds and what’s ahead - alex (tired) (@alex)
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