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Google's AI-Powered Lifestyle App 'Dreambeans' Now Free in the US

Google's AI assistant Gemini crawls your Google apps for "more personalized suggestions," in a feature they call Personal Intelligence.

  • Google's AI-driven app Dreambeans becomes free in the US.
  • App uses data from Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube, Search History.
  • Users can customize feed, limit stories to 10-14 daily.

China fact of the day

Chinese actors and online influencers have a new rival: cost-effective advanced AI video generation programmes that are threatening millions of jobs in a once-vibrant area of China’s gig economy.

  • ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI software revolutionizes Chinese gig economy.
  • Digital actors replaced by AI, as seen by Greg Wollner's production halt.
  • 89% of top animated dramas on Douyin created using AI in May.

The AI curse

NEW YORK — In a county in northern Virginia, a family’s electricity bill has doubled. A few miles away, a windowless building the size of a shopping mall hums through the night—yet another AI data center, consuming more power than the town it was built beside.

The AI curse

NEW YORK — In a county in northern Virginia, a family’s electricity bill has doubled. A few miles away, a windowless building the size of a shopping mall hums through the night—yet another AI data center, consuming more power than the town it was built beside.

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