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Tencent has upgraded WorkRally, its artificial intelligence content creation platform, with three new video models and a wider pitch that now covers live action short dramas, advertising and other creative video rather than the animated shorts it started with.

Funeral operators in China are sending drones dressed as a white crane and a glowing Guanyin into the night sky over village gravesides. Footage circulating on Weibo shows a large multirotor aircraft carrying a feathered crane shell and a white effigy of the deceased, rising above mourners gathered in the open. A second aircraft follows with a seated Guanyin on a lit lotus platform, LED strips running along the statue's robe.

Amazon will let customers in the United States use Alexa for Shopping, its artificial intelligence shopping assistant, to search for products and complete purchases through text messages rather than voice, the company said.