ChatGPT Supports a New Type of Snapchat Filter


OpenAI recently launched the custom sticker feature on ChatGPT, allowing users to create personalized stickers by uploading photos, entering prompts, or migrating visual styles. The feature includes intelligent image matting and image repair technology, which can automatically generate transparent stickers with clean backgrounds, further expanding the application boundaries of AI in social content creation.
Alibaba priced an HK$80bn (US$10.2bn) placement on Aug 24, with net proceeds to fund full-stack AI and infrastructure. Nearly 3x oversubscribed, demand exceeded HK$200bn; sovereign and long-only funds took over 40%, with Middle East, Europe and Asia sovereign funds active. Chairmen added ~HK$120m.....
OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT team lead addressed rapid usage depletion, announcing a unified usage reset for all subscribers around 2 PM PT tomorrow. Investigation identified three causes, including frequent image use in long sessions and repeated context compression, reducing efficiency.....
Pew Research Center reported Aug 20 that over one-third of webpages published after ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI writing or editing, indicating generative AI is rapidly reshaping online content. The study analyzed about 500,000 English pages from Common Crawl over five years using Open Pangram; about 10% of 10,000 randomly sampled pages had clear AI traces, partly because the sample includes many pre-AI pages.....
OpenAI's ChatGPT suffered a global outage affecting the US, Europe, and other regions. Starting at 8 p.m. ET on Aug 19, users couldn't log in, register, load chat history, or send messages; pages stuck loading with 'too many concurrent requests.' New sign-ups and logins on chatgpt.com also failed.....