👻 The Rise of Ghost Markets, Dark Software & Ghost Labor

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Here’s the latest news we spotted in emerging tech, culture, and community from the last week:

Google announces Central Pacific Connect Initiative. The Pacific region is one to watch. We’ve noticed that the US government, and other US-based tech companies, are starting to invest more there.

PayPal's new CEO starts 'next chapter' for payments giant. Wall Street is not impressed. Despite the hype, Paypal launched some “new innovative features” that did not seem too innovative to those outside of Paypal.

Rise of the micro-influencer – Google’s biggest change to SEO. AI-driven SEO, Local SEO, and even Blockchain SEO are expected to lead Google’s SEO optimization efforts. Micro-influencers (non-celebrities) are gaining more interest from people.

Alex Hormozi announces investment in new community platform Skool. This is another one to watch. Skool appeared on our radar two years ago, but we’ve seen some smart focus and marketing lead to an explosion in interest from learner-led communities.

Unity AI launched. Unity, the game engine behind 80%+ of mobile games, released the beta for its AI engine. It will enable the next generation of mobile developers to go live with small teams. In the future, a solopreneur game dev will make a billion dollars - thanks to AI.

Wolfram Alpha + ChatGPT Looks Like A Killer Combo. Wolfram Alpha provides more accuracy for ChatGPT, by integrating its own knowledge based and method, which includes showing step-by-step outputs.

Bitmap.community launched. A new website was launched for Ordinals in the Bitcoin space. If you’re not familiar with Ordinals, they’re essentially NFTs on the BTC blockchain.

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