As X struggles to moderate misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, Meta has an opportunity to make Threads a real-time news app many users are clamoring for (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer:As X struggles to moderate misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, Meta has an opportunity to make Threads a real-time news app many users are clamoring for  —  Three months into its existence, the app’s purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it

LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which could impact fields like customer service, HR, mental health (Lisa Bannon/Wall Street Journal)

Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal:LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which could impact fields like customer service, HR, mental health  —  Artificial Intelligence is getting smart enough to express and measure human empathy.  Here’s how the new technology could […]