1. The best Black Friday in history?
Today is the great day of consumption, the most important date of the year for electronics brands. This Black Friday – which will extend over the weekend until it links up with Cyber Monday – promises to become the most intense and fruitful in history, as many marketing directors of technology companies anticipated on the eve. Up to 30% of the year’s total sales promise to be concentrated these days in certain brands and products, especially televisions, smartphones and laptops. It is known that millions of consumers will take out their credit cards in the next few hours to anticipate Christmas shopping, to take advantage of alleged opportunities that will not be repeated. Discounts can reach 80%, with offers that extend even to the real estate sector, with apartments for 100,000 euros. However, consumer organizations warn that not everything is about sales and that impulsive purchases can be fatal for many domestic economies. The OCU, for example, assures that, during Black Friday, “more products increase in price than those that decrease and that not all discounts are in accordance with current legislation.”
2. How can Open AI become humanity’s No. 1 enemy?
The mistake of the Open AI board of directors in firing Sam Altman for the work he led in the field of superintelligence is already legendary. Like a boomerang that comes and goes, six days later, the same CEO of the American company regained his position. It is now known that the executive was kicked out by the so-called ‘Q * project’ in his portfolio, the same one that now has a free track to launch developments that could be capable of destroying humanity. The Reuters agency reported last Thursday about an AI model that the company defined as “smarter than humans.” Barely 24 hours later, the young cognitive technology industry has begun to speculate about what kind of evil could be cooked up in the kitchens of Open Ai. What algorithm can be more dangerous than nuclear war? Said and done, analysts have suggested a risk capable of triggering a cataclysm on this punished planet: that AI appeals to its reasoning capacity superior to that of humans to act on its own, without submitting to inferior intelligence.
3. Instagram will globally extend the option to download public Reels
Until now, the ability to download public Reels was limited to the US market. From now on, this privilege is intended to be extended to all Instagram users in the world, so that the videos can be saved to view whenever they want. Simply press the share button, download the Reels and use the file at will. This is how Adam Mosseri, director of Instagram and responsible for overseeing all functions of the platform, including engineering, products and operations, has described it. The same executive has winked at the platform’s followers who were envious of a feature that is already part of Tiktok’s catalog of resources. Of course, the Reels can only be stored if the creator allows it. In addition, it will be played without background music in the event that the melody is not original or lacks a copyright license, and will have a water stain stamped with the username of the creator of the piece.
2023-11-24 08:00:17
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