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Hi there! We have a lot of news to share this week.
Many of them are related to AI but hey! I promise you we’ll have mode UX and Social Media news in the next episodes.
Hope you will enjoy this weekly digest 🙂
AI
Deepmind team at Google build an AI capable of following natural-language instructions to carry out tasks in a variety of video games. I can’t wait beeing backseat by an AI!
See full article on Google Deepmind blog
Google has blocked political topics about election on Gemini AI. See full article on Reuters website
Amazon has built an AI that can make an entire product page from a simple link. On one hand, we may have better product pages. On the other hand, vendors will be able to spam the marketplace. See full article on Amazon blog
Drama alert
Don Lemon was supposed to host a show 2 or 3 times a week on X. However, Don says Elon Musk ended the partnership after interviewing him last week. Freedom of speech you said? See full article on The Verge website
Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are 2 different services of image generation AI. According to Midjourney, some Stable Diffusion employees used bots to get all the prompts and images generated on Midjourney during few hours, leading to a service outage of Midjourney servers.
Thus, Midjourney banned all Stability AI employees. See full article on The Verge website
Social media
Times are hard for Elon… A new study from Edison Research suggests that usage of Twitter / X has dropped by 30% from 2023 to 2024. See original post on Forbes website
Tik Tok seems to be ready to launch a dedicated photos app. R.I.P. Instagram? See full article on Lifehacker website
Fail
Bitcoin Fog, a crypto-currency operator, has been convicted of laundering $400M in bitcoins on darknet by a US federal jury See full article on Ars Technica website
Web analytics
Simo Ahava has released an update to his “Consent Mode (Google Tags)” template for Google Tag Manager. It now has a “Include EEA regions” switch and you can now set individual consent signals as “Not set”. See full post on LinkedIn
UX
Here is a great reacap of 58 rules for beautiful UI design. Nothing new but it’s a good resource to keep in your bookmarks. See full article on Medium
Another great overview on UX/UI trends for 2024. This article article is pretty well illustrated and integrates AI and AR/VR trends. See full article on Medium
Security
Apparently, hackers can read all non-Google private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted. Be careful of what you share with AIs! See full article on Ars Technica website