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Charlie Fink

Los Angeles

Contributing Columnist at Forbes

Host at This Week in XR Podcast

Consultant, Columnist, Author, Adjunct, Covering AI, XR, Metaverse for Forbes

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  • Talking Baby AI Meme, Arcana’s $5.5 Million AI Movie Pipeline, IR’s Secret Backers Revealed

    1 day ago | forbes.com | Charlie Fink

    The talking baby meme below took the social media world by storm after Canadian comedian Jonathan Lajoie posted it on Instragram Monday. There is a serious side to this hilarious meme, writes technology consultant and influencer Shelly Palmer. “We’re just months away from living in a world where any given image (especially in media, marketing, ecommerce, and presentations) has a high likelihood of being AI-generated.” He writes.

  • Algeria Bets On Web3: How Lamina1 Is Powering The Next Generation Of African Creators

    1 day ago | forbes.com | Charlie Fink

    When the hype around Web3 and the metaverse cooled, many wrote off the entire category as another overfunded Silicon Valley fantasy. But in Algeria—far from the conference stages of San Francisco or Dubai—a very different story is playing out. There, a government-backed initiative is making a calculated bet on blockchain, immersive media, and creator-driven platforms.

  • Google Guilty Again, Meta On Trial, OpenAI Social, IR Rolls Up Touchcast AI

    1 week ago | forbes.com | Charlie Fink

    A federal judge rules against Google a second time today in a major ad-tech monopoly case today, following the same finding in August, 2024, of its search business. Mark Zuckerberg wrapped three days of antitrust testimony over Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram (2012) and WhatsApp (2014). That seems like a long time ago, but the wheels of justice, and so forth.

  • TED Reveals From OpenAI, Google, Meta Heads To Court, Selfie With Myself

    1 week ago | forbes.com | Charlie Fink

    Every week we are up to our armpits in news from big tech. Between OpenAI, Elon Musk, Meta, Google, antitrust suits, and AI, it’s hard to get attention even if you make an easy-to-use tool, like “Selfie With My Younger Self,” which Pika Labs, a little Generative AI startup that’s raised a paltry $135 million. Pika is known for these kinds of mind-bending effects anyone can do. This is my high school graduation photo with a slightly out-of-scale present-day me in the video.

  • OpenAI Raises $40 Billion, Runway AI Video $380 Million, Amazon, Oracle, TikTok Suitors Await Decision

    3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Charlie Fink

    Things made out of atoms took a serious hit from tariffs this week and big tech will take a punch too. Marketing is the first thing to go overboard in a recession. People buy less stuff, and Google and Meta sell fewer ads. OpenAI has secured $40 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank, elevating the company's valuation to $300 billion.

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Charlie Fink
Charlie Fink @CharlieFink
25 Apr 25

RT @CharlieFink: Selfie with yourself is B O N K E R S 🤣🙃😉 Thanks @pika_labs https://t.co/pp1LU5j0Oa

Charlie Fink
Charlie Fink @CharlieFink
25 Apr 25

like. like. like.

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"a person transformed into a goat after an argument with a wizard in the marketplace" https://t.co/gNEZudG37v

Charlie Fink
Charlie Fink @CharlieFink
24 Apr 25

RT @madpencil_: Chatgpt Prompt: "Trompe l'oeil illusion of A (subject) (attire) steps out of a large screen displaying xyz social media i…