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  • Meta's new AI image generator, Muse Image, is facing backlash for allegedly using user photos without consent, while the company also developed an AI detection tool for its own models.
  • Microsoft is joining the trend of cost optimization in AI development by increasing its reliance on proprietary models.
  • Discord experienced a bug in its AI moderation system that led to the wrongful banning of users over innocuous images.
  • Google has announced its next Pixel product event for August 12, while Netflix is exploring shorter video content through new publisher partnerships and potentially moving beyond its traditional binge-watching model.
  • OpenAI's Chief Futurist is departing the company, and Anthropic is expanding its Claude Cowork AI to mobile and web platforms.

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  • Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light 4 hours ago by Victoria Song
    Gadgets, Meta, News, Tech, Wearable

    Even so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It’s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses' privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling into the LED light . Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with

  • Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows 6 hours ago by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Entertainment, TV Shows

    Even though Netflix is the world's most popular paid streaming service, the company has been struggling to keep viewers watching its series after their first seasons. Beef - the streamer's anthology about people locked in feuds - lost 70 percent of its viewership when it returned earlier this year. There seems to be some confusion as to why people aren't champing at the bit to dive back into once-popular projects like the live-action adaptations of Avatar: The Last Airbender and One Piece . Netflix is reportedly hard at work trying to figure out what, exactly, is prompting subscribers to jump

  • Netflix is about to host videos from BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, and other publishers 6 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    Entertainment, Netflix, News, Streaming

    Starting on August 3rd, Netflix's streaming library will include video content from dozens of digital media brands including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, People Inc, and Tastemade. As reported earlier by TechCrunch , the deal includes a mix of licensed past videos and new ongoing series that would have typically been published on YouTube or other online platforms, like Architectural Digest 's "Open Door" or Vanity Fair 's "Lie Detector Test." As Netflix puts it, the deal will allow subscribers to watch content "from around the Internet without having to leave Netflix." The announcement follows a Bloomberg report earlier this

  • Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos 7 hours 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 10 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,


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