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Meta agrees to pay $1.4B to settle Texas' lawsuit accusing Meta of using facial recognition tech to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without consent — Meta Platforms (META.O) has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state's lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent …
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Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with partners such as Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, and WordPress.com, after weeks of plagiarism accusations — Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with publishing partners following weeks of plagiarism accusations.| Capital Brief: |
Canva acquires AI image generation service Leonardo.ai for an undisclosed amount; Leonardo.ai launched in December 2022 and has 19M+ registered users — Founded in December 2022, Leonardo.Ai has over 19 million users and its very own foundation AI model. — Canva, Australia's largest …
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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 …
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Microsoft calls on the US Congress to pass a comprehensive law to crack down on AI deepfakes that aim to interfere in elections or maliciously target people — - Law enforcement needs a clear legal framework, Brad Smith says — Elon Musk recently shared manipulated clip of Kamala Harris
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Sources including frontline health care workers say their testing of Google's AI-powered nurse handoff tool has left questions about its consistency and quality — After spending billions trying to transform the industry, Alphabet sees opportunity in artificial intelligence.| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $7.89B, total payment volume up 11% to $416.81B, transaction margin dollars up 8%, and raises its FY 2024 profit forecast — PayPal (PYPL.O) on Tuesday raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit for the second time, betting on resilient consumer spending … | Tekendra Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Scammers are using Meta's copyright protection tools to target Middle East influencers; creators see their Instagram content removed if they don't pay ransoms — Victims see their content removed from Instagram unless they pay steep ransoms. — In May 2023, Esaa Ahmed-Adnan … | Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon is expanding its one- to two-day delivery capabilities to US rural areas, using hyper-efficient warehouses, contracted drivers, and mom-and-pop shops — E-commerce giant is expanding into remote areas after years of fine-tuning its delivery systems in more dense cities| Hadley Beeman / W3C: |
After Google said it wouldn't deprecate third-party cookies, the W3C says they should be removed as “hidden personal data collection hurts everyone's privacy” — Author(s) and publish date — After reading Google's announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies …
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The UK ICO says the country's election authority failed to take “basic steps” to protect the personal data of 40M voters before a 2021 China-backed cyberattack — ‘Basic steps’ including updating passwords were missed before 2021 hack, finds Information Commissioner| 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.
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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.
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