Canva's AI Price Increase
Plus Elon has gone rouge...
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
September 04, 2024
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✨ Elone Has Gone Rogue
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Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase
Canva is raising prices for its Teams subscriptions by over 300% next year, attributing the hike to new generative AI features.
In the US, annual Canva Teams subscriptions are increasing from $120 to $500 for up to 5 users (discounted to $300 for the first year).
Canva justifies the price increase by citing an "enhanced product experience" and the value added by generative AI tools like Magic Media and Magic Expand.
Many users are expressing discontent and plan to cancel subscriptions in favor of Adobe products.
X users play Elon Musk at his own game after he posts AI image of Harris as communist dictator
Elon Musk posted an AI-generated image depicting Kamala Harris as a communist dictator, sparking backlash from X users who responded with their own AI images portraying Musk and Donald Trump in a similar light. Many criticized Musk for spreading misinformation and failing to take responsibility as the owner of a large social media platform.
The controversy highlights the growing concerns surrounding the use of AI-generated content in political campaigns, especially with the upcoming election.
Musk shared an AI image of Harris as a communist dictator, sarcastically claiming she would be one on day one
X users hit back by creating AI images of Musk and Trump as communist leaders
Critics argue that Musk, as the richest person and owner of X, should be more responsible with his posts
Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can’t Play Top Games—and There’s No Quick Fix
Microsoft recently released AI-powered laptops with Qualcomm Arm processors, but many popular PC games are incompatible with these chips, leading to bugs, glitches, and games not working at all.
The affected laptops include the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s and the Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro.
Top games like Elden Ring, Diablo IV, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor are among those experiencing issues on these AI PCs.
Game developers would need to recompile their games for Arm compatibility, which is not a quick or easy fix.
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MORE NEWS
Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can’t Play Top Games—and There’s No Quick Fix (link)
OpenAI might change its corporate structure to become more appealing to investors (link)
Google AI Studio has just added Function Calling (link)
Lenovo leak shows cheaper Copilot Plus PCs coming this month (link)
Hugging face has updated its domain to .com (link)
California Passes Law Requiring Consent for AI Digital Replicas of Dead Performers (link)
Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase (link)
X users play Elon Musk at his own game after he posts AI image of Harris as communist dictator (link)
Clearview AI fined by Dutch agency for facial recognition database (link)
Elon Musk is putting his AI chips to work — and he's catching up with Mark Zuckerberg (link)
Bugs, performance issues hinder Huawei’s AI chips (link)
A third of all generative AI projects will be abandoned, says Gartner (link)
Untold History of AI: Invisible Women Programmed America's First Electronic Computer (link)
UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London (link)
Tata Consultancy Services uses Adobe Firefly generative AI and Acrobat AI Assistant to turn hours of work into minutes (link)
Magic AI, an AI programming startup, claims that its new model, LTM-2-mini, can handle up to 100M tokens in its context window (link)
OpenAI says ChatGPT usage has doubled since last year (link)
New OpenAI ChatGPT-5 humanoid robot unveiled 1X NEO Beta (link)
Samsung completes €86M takeover of French AI ultrasound startup Sonio (link)
Jacob Wohl is running an AI lobbying company under a pseudonym (link)
Elon Musk’s xAI just launched “Colossus“, the world’s most powerful AI cluster (link)
Generative AI meets CRISPR gene editing (link)
New AI tool accurately portrays metabolic states (link)
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