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July 29, 2024, 11:25 PM

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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:
Sources: Apple plans to roll out Apple Intelligence by October, weeks after iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 releases  —  - Developers will get to test AI features as soon as this week  — Apple is betting on enhancements to help sell iPhone 16 line … The company is planning to begin rolling …
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 …
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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
A look at ByteDance's CapCut, which has 318M+ MAUs outside China, vs. ~97.4M Canva MAUs, and has made $125M so far in 2024 on mobile, per Sensor Tower  —  - CapCut could be banned in US by same law threatening TikTok  — Adobe working on Premiere editing app that runs in browser
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
A US congressional spokesperson says UAE scuttled meetings this month between congressional staff and G42 after the US raised concerns about Microsoft-G42 deal  —  The United Arab Emirates scuttled meetings this month between U.S. Congressional staffers and G42 after U.S. lawmakers raised concerns …

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