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Colin Lecher / CalMatters : California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills restricting “addictive” social media features for under-16s and limiting minors' interactions with chatbots — IN SUMMARY Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a set of bills intended to protect children online. Keeping up with your California representatives felt
Emma Roth / The Verge : Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog — UMG's AI music platform will let users create remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks.
Alex Heath / Sources : Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more — Meta's CEO joins me for an in-depth conversation on episode two of the Sources podcast. — When Mark Zuckerberg laid out his …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more — Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media's consumer har
Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT — OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, the company shared first with Axios. … - The new model can generate images up to 50 perce
Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ : Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code — The media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns …
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg : Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers — Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf …
Ina Fried / Axios : Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses — Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wan
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette : The US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put “trustworthy” news providers at the top of social and video feeds — News Media Association warns forcing prominence for ‘trustworthy’ news could end up harming sector.
Bloomberg : Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month — ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc …
Kinling Lo / Rest of World : Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles — Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country. — Artificial intelligence tokens …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app — Amazon is going to make it easier to shop when you're watching TV. The retail giant on Thursday announced a series of new features …
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