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July 30, 2024, 8:20 AM

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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.
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.
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 …
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Capital Brief:
Canva acquires AI image generation service Leonardo.ai for an undisclosed amount; Leonardo.ai launched in December 2022 and has more than 19M registered users  —  Founded in December 2022, Leonardo.Ai has over 19 million users and its very own foundation AI model.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm debuts the 4nm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2, a feature-limited version of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, to make 5G accessible to smartphones in the sub-$100 category  —  Qualcomm Tuesday announced the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2.  The entry-level chip aims to make 5G accessible to 2.8 billion smartphone users …
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 …
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Experts say AI forecasting models are predicting weather patterns with new speed and precision and are likely to complement supercomputer forecasting models  —  The brainy machines are predicting global weather patterns with new speed and precision, doing in minutes and seconds what once took hours.

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