This week we refund ticketholders $5, fine Epic Games $245MM, and go gaga for Google Bard. Also: the correct number of fingers!

FOLLOW

• MOMENTOUS

• The MOMENTEAM

FOLLOW-UP

• Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: the Ticketmaster story

• Ticketmaster thanks Robert Smith for partially refunding The Cure tickets

• FTC Finalizes $245M Fine Against Epic Games to Refund Fortnite Players

• Fortnite Refunds | Federal Trade Commission

• ChatGPT Bug Reportedly Exposed People's Conversation History

• AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands

• Nothing, Forever [returns with Season 2]

NEWS

• A Plagiarism Checker and AI Detector Built for Serious Content Publishers

• Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public

• Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT

• “Sorry in advance!” Snapchat warns of hallucinations with new AI conversation bot

• Runway

• Gen-2 by Runway

• Microsoft 365 Copilot brings the power of AI to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams

• Microsoft brings DALL-E's AI image generation to Bing and Edge

• How to use Bing Image Creator to generate AI images for free

• Image Creator from Microsoft Bing

• Adobe built its Firefly AI art generator to avoid bias and copyright issues

• AI Art Generator – Adobe Firefly

• Roblox launches its first generative AI game creation tools

• Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands

• Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft

• Google-backed Anthropic launches Claude, an AI chatbot that’s easier to talk to

• Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions

• Google’s Bard chatbot doesn’t love me — but it’s still pretty weird

• Google is giving some Pixel Superfans the chance to try out Bard first.

• Sign up to try Bard from Google [US & UK only for now]

• CatGPT

• Your Cat Knows When You're Using Your 'Cat Talk' Voice

PICKS

• Taylor Swift Eras Tour!!! #GlendaleTSTheErasTour

• Ted Lasso Season 3

• ChatGPT Plus [with GPT-4]

PROJECTS

• The Best To-Do List Apps 2023