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Mia Sato

Mia Sato

Features Writer, The Verge

Features Writer, The Verge

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    TikTok virality can put sellers in a pickle.

    Especially if they’re selling tens of thousands of products on TikTok Shop without the infrastructure to fulfill orders.

    An Insider report on the viral products sold on TikTok (like a $44 pickle jar sweatshirt) suggests sales ebb and flow — merchants are sometimes overwhelmed with orders, and other times working through dry spells.

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    Mia Sato
    AI antics at Paris Fashion Week.

    Parisian brand Coperni can’t resist a fashion show stunt. This is the same company that orchestrated the viral Bella Hadid spray-on dress moment last year, followed by robot dogs shortly after.

    This season, Coperni sent models down the runway wearing Humane’s “Ai Pin,” a buzzy and mysterious device that we don’t know much about yet. I say “stunt” because it doesn’t seem like they... used it at all?

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    Good morning, T-Pain AI bot.

    At the Meta Connect event this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a whole cast of AI chatbots that the company plans to put on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

    Some of the bots are played by celebrities like MrBeast and Kendall Jenner. Here’s T-Pain lending his voice to Zuckerberg’s AI assistant, Jarvis.

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    A dating app to talk to your partner.

    Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd told the audience at Code 2023 that she sees potential for dating apps throughout the various phases of a relationship, not just to meet new people.

    Earlier this year, the company acquired Official, an app for couples to track relationships and stay connected.