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July 30, 2024, 2:20 AM

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple debuts Apple Intelligence in the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 developer betas, with text generation and Siri updates, but missing some features  —  - Apple on Monday released the first version of Apple Intelligence, … Apple on Monday released the first version of Apple Intelligence …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Meta releases Segment Anything Model 2 with support for object segmentation in videos and images; the code and weights are available under an Apache 2.0 license  —  Meta had a palpable hit last year with Segment Anything, a machine learning model that could quickly and reliably identify and outline just about anything in an image.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Some popular sites like Condé Nast's titles and Reuters.com modified robots.txt to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names  —  Hundreds of sites have put old Anthropic scrapers on their blocklist, while leaving a new one unblocked.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A US court ruled on July 24 that border agents must get a warrant before searching the electronic devices of US and international travelers crossing the border  —  A federal district court in New York has ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta rolls out AI Studio in the US, letting users create and share AI chatbots, and Instagram creators set up chatbots to answer DM questions and story replies  —  Meta is rolling out its AI Studio tools for custom chatbots.  —  The next time you DM a creator on Instagram, you might get a reply from their AI.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Twitch remains unprofitable a decade after Amazon's acquisition; Docs show Twitch generated ~$667M in ad revenue and $1.3B in commerce revenue in 2023  —  Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014.  It's Still Losing Money.  The live-video service has slowing user growth …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Hadley Beeman / W3C:
After Google said it wouldn't deprecate third-party cookies, W3C says third-party cookies must be removed as the invisible tracking “hurts everyone's privacy”  —  Author(s) and publish date  —  After reading Google's announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies …
Financial Times:
Temu faces backlash from its Chinese suppliers over its aggressive effort to recruit Amazon merchants who hold goods in warehouses in the US and the EU  —  Internet marketplace taking on Amazon and Shein aims to cut delivery times by storing goods closer to shoppers

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