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Meta, formerly known as Facebook today showed off a prototype of an AI system

that enables people to generate or import things into a virtual world just by using voice commands.

The company sees the tool, which is called Builderbot, as an exploratory concept that shows AI's potential for creating new worlds in the metaverse.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the prototype at the Meta AI Inside the Lab event on Wednesday

in a pre-recorded demo video.

In other news, the U.S. Postal Service is sticking with its original plan to replace up to

90% of its mail delivery fleet with gasoline-powered vehicles from Oshkosh Corp.

The decision dashes the hopes of the Biden administration, which had lobbied the independent

agency to switch to a predominantly electric vehicle fleet.

It also ends any chance, at least in the near term,

for any EV manufacturer to capture some of the contract

estimated to be valued at $6 billion.

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