Best of TechCrunch — April 2023

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   Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager

   Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager. Proton is the company behind Proton Mail, Proton VPN and Proton Drive. Proton has recently reached an important milestone as there are 100 million registered users across all of the company's products.

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   Researchers populated a tiny virtual town with AI

   Stanford and Google researchers populated a virtual town with AIs and set them loose. The experiment has not been peer reviewed or accepted for publication, but it makes for interesting reading. The graphics are just a visual representation of what is essentially a bunch of conversations between multiple instances of ChatGPT.

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   Apple (re)invents the iPod

   Apple has filed a patent application for an iPod case-meets-pocket-computer with a touchscreen display. Apple could be exploring such a device, given its well-established interest in smarter earbuds. The iPod is dead, but our great yearning for devices that do less?

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   What is Auto-GPT and why does it matter?

   Auto-GPT is an open source app created by game developer Toran Bruce Richards. It uses OpenAI’s text-generating models, mainly GPT-3.5 and G PT-4, to act ‘autonomously’ It can also be hooked up to speech synthesizers, like ElevenLabs’.

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