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Two things from us on this beautiful Wednesday evening.

1. Do you ever scroll the timeline and think, what on God’s green earth is e/acc? Our latest pod episode is an e/acc explainer for beginners, made with love for u.

2. Edition 02 of our Zine launches tomorrow, stay tuned to Twitter (X? lol idk) for the latest.

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Writer: ted (on farcaster)
Editor: Deana

Animate…anyone? Buckle up, boys. Alibaba (yes, this Alibaba) just flipped the script with 'Animate Anyone' – a new AI-powered tool that can turn still photos into realistic animated videos of literally anyone. Think Harry Potter moving portraits, but better quality. These are deepfakes you would 100% fall for - or at least we did. This is a bold move for Alibaba, following news that China’s e-commerce platforms are turning to AI-hosts for 24/7 sale livestreams, but what does it mean for the creator economy? ‘Animate Anyone’ was trained on a scraped TikTok dataset - including content from famous TikTok creators like Charli D’Amelio — raising new questions about intellectual property rights and copyright law. What could possibly go wrong!!!

Gemini Season. Google has finally hard launched Gemini, their ChatGPT competitor and the self-proclaimed “most capable” AI model yet. It comes in three sizes, cute! Nano for on-device AI features, Pro for Google-powered AI services, and Ultra for data centers and enterprise applications. Gemini Ultra is advanced in math and coding (ChatGPT cannot do math but Gemini can even solve physics) and is the first AI model to outperform human experts on the multi-task language understanding (MMLU) benchmark. While OpenAI created different products and trained separate models for images (DALL-E) and audio (Whisper), Gemini’s superpower is its multimodal multi-sensory model: its ability to understand and interact with text, video, and audio all at once. This isn't just another AI model release; it's big daddy Google finally entering the mainstream AI arena.

AI embryos. Orchid Health, a female-founded biotech offering on at-home preconception tests, just unveiled the world’s first AI-powered whole genome embryo reports. Available at IVF centers across the nation, Orchid’s new report offers 99% genome sequencing and a whopping 100x more data than existing tests. It's a giant leap for pre-pregnancy decision making for parents-to-be as they embark on their IVF journey, potentially reducing the risk of hereditary diseases. Orchid's tech is pushing boundaries, but with great power comes great responsibility – and a heap of ethical conundrums and debates around genetic privacy and the future of designer babies.