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AI Summary

  • The tech industry is seeing a significant push towards AI, with companies like Microsoft focusing on proprietary models for cost-cutting and startups like Norm raising substantial funding, highlighting the growing AI economy.
  • AI's accessibility is expanding with open-source models gaining traction, while tools like Discord's AI moderation and Savi's AI scam protection showcase both the benefits and potential pitfalls of AI integration.
  • Major tech players are innovating across hardware and software, including Google's upcoming Pixel event, X's new video editor, and Apple's iOS 27 beta features for Siri customization.
  • The gaming industry is experiencing shifts with layoffs at id Software and the release of new titles and gaming hardware, alongside developments in AI's role in sports.
  • Concerns regarding data privacy and security are persistent, with news of breaches, the EU's new facial camera requirement for cars, and ongoing discussions about AI's impact on digital content and user safety.

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  • Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos an hour ago by Emma Roth
    AI, Apps, Instagram, Meta, News, Social Media, Tech

    Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it's coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according to an announcement on Tuesday . It's part of the growing Muse family of AI models that replace Meta's Llama lineup. Alexandr Wang, who Meta hired to head up its Superintelligence Labs last year, says on Threads that Muse Image is "agentic," meaning it works with its Muse Spark large language model "to reason through your prompt, search the

  • X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools 3 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    Creators, News, Social Media, Tech, Twitter - X

    Nikita Bier, X's head of product, said in a post on Monday that "[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral," while noting that videos on the platform "make up close to half the impressions on X." According to Bier, X is launching a new in-app video editor and recorder to address this "recycled content," so that "some videos on X can finally be original content that doesn't exist on other platforms." As previously reported by TechCrunch , the new video tools are available now on X's iOS app,

  • The ‘G-Wagen of golf carts’ could be the ideal second car 4 hours ago by Andrew J. Hawkins
    Electric Cars, Report, Transportation

    While the auto industry wrings its hands over the electric vehicle market, sweating details like aerodynamic efficiency and range anxiety, a new EV startup based in Lisbon, Portugal, is zagging in a different direction. Amble's new electric buggy won't impress anyone with its 0-60 time or its self-driving features (it has none). Instead, it takes a stab at the belief that cars have gotten too big, too fast, and perhaps could use a bit of a downgrade in both departments. The Amble One is a premium, street-legal buggy with a gorgeous neo-retro design that's currently being marketed to locations where

  • ABC tells the government to get out of its newsrooms 4 hours ago by Emma Roth
    Entertainment, News, Policy, Politics, Speech, TV Shows

    ABC is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission after the agency opened an investigation into The View 's airtime of political candidates. In a letter to the FCC on Tuesday, ABC argues that the agency's actions pose a risk to editorial independence by targeting programs "perceived as unfriendly to the current administration," as reported earlier by The Wrap . In February, the FCC Chair Brendan Carr confirmed that he's reexamining The View 's classification as a "bona fide" news program after the talk show held an interview with Rep. James Talarico (D-TX), who is running for a spot in

  • Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web 4 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    AI, Anthropic, News

    Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans "in the coming weeks." Claude Cowork was previously only accessible through the Claude desktop app for macOS and Windows, but now users on iOS and Android can also use it. However, Anthropic says the "full experience" for Cowork will still be on the desktop app, including features like local file access. Cowork sessions will also now run in the cloud by default, so you


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