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Meta trials AI chatbot on social platforms 💬, Humane's Hands-free Ai Pin⚡️, Are dumbphones on the rise? 📞

Today's TechToks: Meta's AI deployment, Humane's exploration beyond smartphones, the rise of 'dumbphones', new AI projects on Github, the latest from the Webb Space Telescope and more!

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Meta is testing its AI chatbot, Meta AI, across its popular messaging and social media apps WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger in India and parts of Africa, aiming to leverage its massive user base to scale its AI offerings and compete with other major tech companies in the generative AI space.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

The article discusses Humane's Ai Pin, a hands-free device that leverages generative AI technology, as a potential successor to the smartphone, amid declining smartphone sales and the rise of AI-powered devices from tech giants like Apple, Google, and Samsung.

Explore the current observations of the James Webb Space Telescope, a groundbreaking space observatory that is unlocking the mysteries of the universe with its unprecedented capabilities.

The article explores how the internet has become less enjoyable and more commercialized, with increased advertising, data collection, and corporate control, leading to a loss of the internet's original sense of freedom and creativity.

A growing industry caters to smartphone users seeking to reduce screen time by offering 'dumbphones' - basic phones with limited functionality compared to smartphones, as people become increasingly frustrated with the constant connectivity and distraction of modern devices.

"Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

Morphic is an AI-powered answer engine with a generative UI, built using Next.js, Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Tavily AI, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, and Tailwind CSS, and can be easily deployed to Vercel.

Lobe Chat is an open-source, modern-design ChatGPT/LLMs UI/Framework that supports speech-synthesis, multi-modal, and extensible plugin system, allowing one-click FREE deployment of a private OpenAI ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Groq/Ollama chat application.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

V7 Go uses generative AI to automate tasks and document processing reliably and at scale, allowing companies to reduce the strain of back-office work and focus on what really matters. V7 Go turns images and documents into structured data.

Captions simplifies video editing with automated resizing, easy clip creation, multilingual dubbing, eye contact correction, customizable captions, and enhanced visuals, empowering anyone to create share-worthy videos effortlessly across platforms.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

The article announces the availability of Gemini 1.5 Pro, a next-generation AI model, in over 180 countries with new features like native audio understanding, system instructions, JSON mode, and a new text embedding model with improved performance.