Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents: “You don’t need to type a single word.” Finally, a technology company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imagination. StoryKit was
Instagram announced Tuesday that users can now swap music in their published posts and carousels. Until now, users could only change the music in a post by deleting it and then re-uploading it. With the newly launched “Replace Audio” tool, users can update their post’s music at any time while keeping the post’s existing likes,
In a recent interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he can see a time in the future, perhaps just a year or two, when it will be necessary to put limits on Meta employees’ spending of AI tokens. “I think you can imagine, at least in a year or two… that a strong engineer’s burn
While Kylie Jenner serves as a human billboard for Meta’s AI glasses, pop star Lorde isn’t buying it. During a set at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid last week, Lorde had a few words about the new technology, which many security experts have considered a privacy nightmare. “It’s getting harder and harder in our
in this episode of mysterious valleyOur hosts look at Threads as it recently hit 500 million monthly users, putting it on par with X, but is it really competing or just filling a different niche? Meanwhile, reviews have been coming in for the Trump-branded T1 phone in recent weeks as it finally started shipping after
On May 31, Sarah Wynn-Williams took to the stage as a panelist at the prestigious Hay Festival, alongside law professor Tim Wu and journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Before she said a word, she was greeted with applause. She never said a word, sitting silently as the other two panelists discussed the evils of Big Tech. Yet
