Paul Stenhouse: WhatsApp transcribes voice notes and Bitcoin approaches $100,000

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

WhatsApp's transcribing your (annoying) voice notes

Got a friend who loves a voice note but you don't want to listen to their ramblings? WhatsApp's new AI feature will transcribe the note for you to read. Hurray!

The feature is rolling out globally to Android and iOS users “in the coming weeks”, according to the company.

This is a fun addition because it's faster to talk, but it's quicker to read. Now you get the best of both worlds.

Bitcoin is approaching $100,000

Donald Trump's presidential win and his love for crypto has buoyed the digital currency to reach record highs. It broke $98,000 for the first time on Thursday.

Bitcoin has gained more than 130% so far this year, and 40% just since the presidential election.

A fun aside: in 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz made history by purchasing two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins - a world first real Bitcoin transaction. They were worth just fractions of a cent each. Today those 10,000 bitcoins would be valued at over $980 million.

Amazon is investing $4 billion in ChatGPT's rival

If it feels like deja vu, it's because it is. This is the second $4 billion investment Amazon has made just this year. A condition of the deal is that Anthropic must use AWS for their primary cloud provider and will use Amazon’s AI chips to develop its most advanced models.

Rumours the ChatGPT Web Browser is coming

Reports in The Information suggest you could ditch Google's Chrome browser and use a ChatGPT browser instead to browse and search the web. It could also include partnerships and integrations with a variety of eCommerce websites and apps – I assume these would be almost like super premium sponsored results? OpenAI isn't commenting.

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