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Meta's Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch

Meta's Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch: Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures. Read More

X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts: X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request. Read More

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems: The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research. Read More

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