Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for the final day of July 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Another big pullback of a major AI tool, Microsoft Earnings, how Kapcut is taking over the

Creator tools space, Amazon's speedy delivery is rolling out to the nooks and

crannies of North America and the startup taking a new run at AI

wearables.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

As part of that move to AI Studio we told you about, Meta has officially scrapped its

Celebrity AI Chatbot feature less than a year after launching it, putting the information.

The reversal less than a year after Meta launched the Celebrity Chatbot's shows how even the biggest

tech companies haven't figured out how to transform breakthroughs in generative AI into winning consumer products.

None of the AI chatbots amassed particularly big followings, especially compared with the personal

accounts of the celebrities.

In some cases, Meta paid millions of dollars to license these celebrities likenesses

Links to the accounts of the Celebrity Chatbots on Facebook and Instagram returned a message Tuesday saying the pages are not available

Meta is now taking a different approach to AI

chatbots. On Monday the company rolled out a new feature called AI Studio in the

U.S. allowing any creator to customize AI avatars of themselves to answer

common questions from fans such as where they

bought a dress or offering a link for a workout video. This feature is similar to

one offered by startup Character AI which had an early lead in consumer chatbots, but has since considered research partnerships with companies including Meta.

A Meta-spokes' confirmed the Chatbots takedown saying, in a statement, quote,

we took a lot of learnings from building them and meta AI

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