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Popcorn Time and Block's AI Model
The abandoned Popcorn Time app, once a popular torrent front end, still has millions of installations. Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey’s Block introduced an awkward-sounding AI model called Dessa.
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The Verge
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan
2026-10-23 19:32 UTC
The Verge
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just w
2026-10-23 19:35 UTC