Chat GPT stunned the tech world by launching plugins 

Now you can get Chat GPT to connect to a range of applications to enrich what it knows, and what it can do. For example, you can now connect it to Expedia and have it search flights, or recommend hotels. You can connect it to Bing to search the internet - yes, it can now know real-world and real-time information. You can even connect it to your email and calendar through a service called Zapier to have it send emails and more.  

TikTok's CEO grilled on Capitol Hill 

Shou Zi spent five hours taking questions from lawmakers. He says there is still some data in a data center in Virginia and Singapore that China-based employees can access, but that is in the process of being deleted. From then on, all US data will be stored in a US data center and governed by US law, only accessible by US-based employees. He says TikTok has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government. These committee hearings also continue to show just how little our law makers know about technology, with painful questions.  

Adobe launched its generative AI called Firefly 

It's designed for creatives, and it looks pretty awesome.  

You can create images from scratch or use something already in your design canvas to use as a prompt. So, you could take an image of a church and ask for variations of it. The thing that looks the coolest is that it keeps it all in separate layers so you can move things around and tweak as needed. Want a picture to look brighter, or more moody - you can ask for that too. Need the sky brightened up to make your vacation look perfect - it can do that too. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.