Happy Tuesday! Captcha verification has hit a new level. Discord users are being asked to verify made-up objects in AI-generated images, such as a ‘Yoko’, which appears to be a mix between a snail and a yoyo…

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

NVIDIA announced Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games, an AI model service that brings intelligence to non-playable characters (NPCs). Deploying ACE allows gamers to talk to NPCs in natural language, and can create expressive facial expressions based on speech 🫠

ACE also lets companies build and deploy in-game language models, which can be customized with lore and character backstories.

While everyone loses their shit about AI, NVIDIA continues to build out the picks and shovels of the industry ⚒️

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google rolls out its AI text message composition tool in beta

• WhatsApp is working on a screen-sharing feature 

• YouTube brings unlimited streams to NFL Sunday Ticket 

• Microsoft launches an AI tool for building websites

• Open AI brings its ChatGPT iOS app to 10 more countries 

General and early-stage

• Naver to build localized LLMs for foreign governments 

• Bluesky rolls out feeds with custom algorithms 

• ARM launches new chips for faster smartphone performance 

• Binance to ship a crypto trading platform in Japan

• Distrikt launches a tipping feature for its creator app

🔍 Other good finds

• How to influence. Dealing with conflict as a PM

• Stumped. Cricket event sets concurrent streams world record

• Revision. HSBC rebrands SVB UK to “HSBC Innovation Banking”

🧈 Twitter nugget

Thanks for reading! If you've got any comments or feedback, please hit reply - I'd love to hear from you :)

- Amol