Indian ecommerce platform Flipkart launched Flipverse, a metaverse-based virtual shopping experience. The news comes just a month after it was revealed that Flipkart was preparing to introduce a metaverse-based experience.
The news comes six months after Flipkart launched Flipkart Labs, a new initiative to test Web3 technology and ecommerce use cases. Flipverse will be available on Flipkart’s newly launched FireDrops platform, which can be accessed via the ecommerce platform’s app. In a metaverse environment, the Flipverse will allow users to discover and shop for products. To create the virtual shopping experience, the ecommerce company collaborated with eDAO, Meta, and Ethereum Layer-2 scaling startup Polygon.
Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to chief product officer Mike Krieger, Anthropic doesn’t plan to win the AI race by building a mainstream AI assistant. “I hope Claude reaches as many people as possible,” Krieger told me onstage at the HumanX AI conference earlier this week. “But I think, [for] our ambitions, the critical path isn’t through mass-market consumer adoption right now.” Instead,… Source link
Meta will begin testing its X-style Community Notes starting March 18th. The feature will roll out on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US – but Meta won’t publicly publish the notes to start as it tests the Community Notes writing and rating system. Meta first announced plans to replace its fact-checking program with Community Notes in January, saying it would be “less prone to bias.” So far, around 200,000 potential contributors have signed up for the waitlist. Not everyone will be able to write and rate Community Notes at launch, as… Source link
An arbitrator has decided in favor of Meta in a case the company brought against Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Meta employee who wrote a memoir published this week detailing alleged claims of misconduct at the company. Macmillan Publishers and its imprint that published the memoir, Flatiron Books, were also named as respondents. The memoir, titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, details alleged claims of sexual harassment, including by current policy chief Joel Kaplan, who was her boss, according to NBC News. In… Source link
