Meta
New Features on Instagram Reels: Trends, Editing and Gifts
- Instagram is adding a dedicated destination to find inspiration through trending audio and hashtags on Instagram Reels.
- Instagram is adding two new metrics to Reels insights: total and average watch times.
- Instagram is bringing gifts on Reels to more countries and adding a feature to let creators recognize fans’ gifts.
https://sproutsocial.com/insights/instagram-algorithm/
Facebook now has a NEW 'Advanced Stories' mode
- A new 'ready-made' Stories tool which uses "advanced photo and video data, including image quality, location, and the presence of people or animals"
- As of March 2023, users aged 25 to 34 years made up Facebook's largest audience in the United States, accounting for 23.7 percent of the social network's user base, with 12.1 percent of those users being women.
- Overall, 9.4 percent of users aged 35 to 44 years were women, and 8.7 percent were men.
- Top executives at the Center for Digital Democracy, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Fairplay and other organizations sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday arguing that allowing minors onto Horizon would also expose them to bullying.
- You will have ability to edit WhatsApp messages. However, edited messages will show a label ‘edited’.
- You will be able to share WhatsApp Status to Facebook Stories similar to IG to FB Stories feature.
- WhatsApp will allow removing captions from forwarded messages and edit the caption with a custom copy.
- WhatsApp Announces Three New Security Features for Users' Security -- Account Protect, Device Verification, Automatic Security Codes.
- WhatsApp has initiated a safety campaign called 'Stay Safe with WhatsApp' aimed at educating users about the product features that can assist them in maintaining their online safety.
- Enable two-step verification and never share your PIN
- Block and report unwanted messages and accounts
- Adjust privacy settings to control your personal details and prevent being added to unwanted groups
- WhatsApp will soon allow users to add new contacts right inside the app.
- Initially, there was already a shortcut way to add contacts in WhatsApp. However, that was only there to redirect the user to their device contact management.
- This new feature will allow users to add and edit their contacts without leaving WhatsApp.
Twitter and Elon Musk
- Twitter to let users offer content subscriptions. Twitter will not take a cut for first 12 months.
- Twitter now supports up to 10000 characters in tweets with bold and italic formatting.
- Twitter is no longer a legal entity, having merged with a shell company called X Corp on March 15 this year.
- Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk also owns the domain for X.com, a payments company he founded and then merged with PayPal. The news could be another step toward Musk's ambitions for an "everything app" similar to China's WeChat.
- Twitter staring at multi-million-euro fines in Germany. The report in Techcrunch says that about 600 cases have been filed against Twitter in Germany for failing to moderate content.
- Elon Musk says it has been painful to run Twitter after buying it. The billionaire revealed that it has been a roller-coaster ride. Musk is also ready to sell Twitter if he gets a right person for it.
- Elon Musk DESTROYS BBC Reporter: Earlier he changed BBC account's 'government funded' label. In the other news, India continues a crackdown on BBC over crimes related to foreign funding.
- Elon Musk founds new AI company called X.AI
Quora, Reddit, TikTok, Telegram, Discord, SEO, Zoom, StackOverflow, Spotify, LinkedIn
- Quora's Poe app introduces user-generated chatbots through prompts based on existing bots. Poe offers the ability for users to create their own bots using prompts, leading to the creation of a new creator class within the field of prompt engineering.
- In the UK, last week, the government's Information Commissioner (ICO) fined TikTok £12.7 million for allowing an estimated 1.4 million children to use its app, despite its own terms and conditions banning under-13s from doing so.
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is about to see the company he founded 17 years ago grow up and go public.
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wants TikTok banned. Calls TikTok propaganda arm of China and China the most hostile foreign nation in an interview with GQ magazine.
- Montana has become the first US state to pass legislation banning TikTok on personal devices after massive backlash.
- Russia’s Rostec allegedly can de-anonymize Telegram users. Telegram spokesperson said,
- “Telegram does not allow any means of identifying the admins of channels through the apps or through the API.
- Channels were designed with this in mind to facilitate pro-democracy movements in authoritarian countries and protests worldwide.
- A common way for channel admins to de-anonymize themselves is by accepting payments for promotional content which could be traced.
- Another way users can invalidate the protections offered by Telegram is by giving access to their channels to third-party bots (e.g. for statistics, or participation in external ad networks) or using third-party Telegram apps whose privacy policies may differ from our own. For this reason, we only recommend using official Telegram apps and official Telegram bots.
- New malware in Discord named Vare can steal users' information, warn researchers.
- A Minecraft Discord server recently came under intense scrutiny after several top-secret US military documents were allegedly leaked inside it.
- Many of the documents reportedly revolved around the conflict in Ukraine and had been deemed classified by the United States military.
- According to officials, the documents could have a drastic impact on the issues in Ukraine.
- ChatGPT is killing Stack Overflow
- According to reports from SimilarWeb, after the release of ChatGPT in November, there was a 12% decrease in the number of website visits, from 279 million to 247 million in December.
- After just a little rise in January to 249 million, the website visits dropped even lower in February, to 239 million.
- Google April 2023 Reviews Update Focuses Heavily On Experience. Signals of Product Reviews Experience:
- Visual evidence
- Audio
- Links to evidence of experience
- Quantitative measurements
- Zoom is introducing new features to compete with numerous companies including Slack, Calendly, Google, and Microsoft. These features include AI-powered meeting summaries, prompt-based email responses, and whiteboard generation along with video “Huddles” and a meeting scheduler.
- End of Clubhouse era; competing apps shut down operations:
- Spotify is discontinuing its Spotify Live (formerly Spotify Greenroom).
- Reddit recently shut down Reddit Talk
- Meta merged its Live Audio Rooms into Facebook Live
- LinkedIn makes verification free on its platform. There are three ways to get a badge: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1359065/verifications-on-your-linkedin-profile
Artificial Intelligence
AutoGPT
AutoGPT allows you to build custom AI agents tailored to your goals & tasks in a matter of minutes.
This experimental, open-source Python application uses GPT-4 to act autonomously, making it one of the most powerful AI tools available to date.
- This means that it can perform a task with little human intervention, and can self-prompt.
- You can tell Auto-GPT what you want the end goal to be, and the application will self-produce every prompt necessary to complete the task.
- GitHub: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT
ChatGPT
OpenAI CEO confirms ChatGPT is not trying to train GPT-5.
- The open letter signed by Elon Musk and other researchers called for a halt in the development of AI systems that are more powerful than GPT-4, citing concerns about potential impacts on safety, privacy, and employment.
- During his talk at MIT, Altman addressed some of these concerns and stated that the open letter overlooked significant technical nuances regarding where development should be paused.
- A new study has found that training AI models like ChatGPT and Bard consume lakhs of tonnes of water.
- The amount of water it took to train ChatGPT 3 is the same amount it takes to make 370 BMW and 320 Tesla electric cars.
- The paper also notes that ‘ChatGPT needs to drink a 500 ml bottle of water for a simple conversation of roughly 20-50 questions and answers.
- While a 500ml bottle of water might not seem too much, the total combined water footprint for inference is still huge, considering ChatGPT’s billions of users."
- According to the estimate of water consumption presented by researchers, Microsoft, which is partnered with OpenAI, consumed a whopping 185,000 gallons of water in training GPT-3 alone. That is equivalent to the amount of water needed to cool a nuclear reactor.
- The consumed water isn’t gone forever. Instead, it gets released into the air through cooling towers, although it takes some time to return as rain.
- With the increasing reliance and prominence predicted around AI, it is necessary to act early and reduce the water footprint of these heavy systems before it raises a larger threat to the environment.
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