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AI Summary
- 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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TechCrunch
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Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
6 hours ago
by Isabelle Johannessen
Startups, Startup Battlefield, Startup Battlefield AustraliaIf you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
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Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
6 hours ago
by Lucas Ropek
AI, Meta, Meta Superintelligence, Muse ImageThe new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
8 hours ago
by Russell Brandom
AI, Enterprise, Anthropic, DecagonOpen source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
8 hours ago
by Lucas Ropek
AI, Anthropic, In Brief, Microsoft, OpenAI, tokensMicrosoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
9 hours ago
by Lauren Forristal
AI, Apps, Social, discordThe company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
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Engadget
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Meta built an AI detection tool to ID images and video created with its new models
5 hours ago
by Karissa Bell
AI, MetaMeta's new AI detector has rate limits for some reason.
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The next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked launch is happening on July 22
5 hours ago
by Sam Rutherford
SamsungThe next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked launch is happening on July 22.
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NASA transfers ownership of Maryland woodland to the US Fish and Wildlife Service
6 hours ago
by Anna Washenko
ScienceA rare 2026 story of good news for the planet.
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Meta's new Muse Image model accepts Instagram accounts as a prompt
7 hours ago
by Ian Carlos Campbell
AI, Apps, MetaThe new AI model is also powering effects in Stories and image generation in WhatsApp.
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Hasbro and Scooby Doo team up for one of the goofiest Transformers yet
8 hours ago
by Sam Rutherford
EntertainmentHasbro and Scooby Doo team up for one of the goofiest Transformers yet.
The Verge
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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, WearableEven 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
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Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows
6 hours ago
by Charles Pulliam-Moore
Entertainment, TV ShowsEven 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
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Netflix is about to host videos from BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, and other publishers
6 hours ago
by Stevie Bonifield
Entertainment, Netflix, News, StreamingStarting 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
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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, TechMeta 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
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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 - XNikita 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,
Wired
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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
6 hours ago
by Reece Rogers
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Copy, CatAs part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
7 hours ago
by Maxwell Zeff
Business / Artificial Intelligence, Future, DepartureJoshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.
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Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan
10 hours ago
by Jorge Garay
Science, Science / Space, The, UnknownSomething on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases.
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Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
12 hours ago
by Reece Rogers
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Gear / Products / Apps, Remote, ControlClaude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.
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These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras
15 hours ago
by Boone Ashworth
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Private, EyeYou can clip a cover over the cameras, which could be a double-edged sword.