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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.
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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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.
Tekendra Parmar / Bloomberg :
Scammers are using Meta's copyright protection tools to target influencers in the Middle East; creators see their content removed from Instagram unless they pay   —  Victims see their content removed from Instagram unless they pay steep ransoms.  —  In May 2023, Esaa Ahmed-Adnan …
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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.
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 …
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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.
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Disha Mishra / Reuters :
The NHTSA says Tesla released an OTA update for 1.8M cars, including 2021-2024 Model 3, Model S, and Model X, to fix a software failure to detect unlatched hood   —  Tesla (TSLA.O) is recalling over 1.8 million vehicles in the United States due to risk of software failure to detect unlatched hood …
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