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With 100 million users in its first two months, a growth rate faster than TikTok’s, ChatGPT’s integration with Microsoft’s Bing triggered both new consumer interest in the second-place search engine and a large reaction from Google.  After making some changes…

“100 years from now, the Idea is still going to be more important than all the Technology in the world.” – Bill Bernbach   Reading an Axios article on how an agency had created “AI Interns” with ChatGPT and Dalle2,…

2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends will Collide and Shape the Future of Everything While our holiday reading list included entertaining fare like Stephen King’s new Fairy Tale and Andy Weir’s (author of everyone’s second-favorite Matt Damon adventure, The Martian) Hail…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Reaches 1 Million Users in 5 Days I asked ChatGPT to introduce itself for this post, and here’s what I got back.  Hello, I am ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI to assist with a variety…

Niantic and Qualcomm Develop AR Glasses Reference Device The latest from Niantic, the makers of Pokemon GO and leading creator platform for augmented reality, is a sleek reference device for AR glasses designed for outdoor use.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDNjVxX0LrE One of the…

FIFA Partners with Roblox for World Cup As a quick background, Roblox has about 200 million monthly players and 50 million daily (a pretty loyal fanbase), and has doubled its audience size since 2019, becoming a home in the metaverse(s)…

Crossing Multiple Chasms with Web3 Technologies Rather than dive into mostly examples this week, we’ll start our tour with a 30,000 foot view of what’s going on in the Web3 world as a whole, and some ways to observe it…

  Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs on Podcast, but it’s made by AI (Hypebeast) Ranging from faith and drugs to tech and complex analogies, the two AI clones of the celebrities have an in-depth conversation that’s completely generated by AI.…

Elon Musk Presents Tesla’s Optimus Robot In the sense that robots are mechanical extensions of the Internet of Things, we think they’re a factor in Web3, with new robots being developed with emotion sensing to perform assistive tasks like caring…

Why a Web Zero Edition? Things weren’t so bad when we had to use payphones, and the only “Net” part of Netflix was where you told the website what DVDs you wanted the company to send you in the mail.…