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Babies and AI Understanding how infants and toddlers learn language has significant implications for the PR and marketing space, as it could improve AI models used in customer engagement and content creation. By recording a child's interactions to train an AI language model, researchers aim to mimic human cognition, such as intentionality and structured learning, in AI. This interdisciplinary work could lead to major advances in cognitive science, enhancing AI's ability to create more engaging and human-like content for marketing purposes. (New York Times)?

Talk Nerdy to Me

• Pinterest's Picture Perfect. Pinterest's new AI-powered collage feature, initially launched as the Shuffles app in 2022, has become a hit among Gen Z users and is now integrated into the main platform.?(Tech Crunch)?

Under the Influence

• TikTok Turmoil.? TikTok users fear the impact of a potential U.S. ban on their livelihoods, highlighting challenges in rebuilding audiences and the app's unique role in the creator economy.? The situation underscores the importance of platform diversification for creators and the need for a new platform to rise to fill TikTok's potential void. (Forbes)?

Media Navel-gazing

• AI Allegations: A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing them of unlawfully copying millions of their articles to train AI products. (Reuters)?

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