Today, you might have heard about the latest Elon controversy where he criticized an employee, and then walked it all back. We’ll get into that. DuckDuckGo melds two AI tools together. A Large Visual Language Model that will help robots move around in the real world. I explain why I’m telling you about every new Generative AI advance seemingly every single day. And with Google officially announcing the date for I/O, is their headlong rush to release AI products the waking of a sleeping giant, or the second coming of Google+?

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Links:

• FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names (WSJ)
• Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire (The Verge)
• Elon Musk apologizes after mocking disabled Twitter employee (AP)
• DuckDuckGo Releases Its Own ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine, DuckAssist (Gizmodo)
• Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands (ArsTechnica)
• Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything (Bloomberg)

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