Techmeme
July 30, 2024, 1:15 PM

Top News

Reuters:
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 …
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
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 …
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 …
Jeff Stone / Bloomberg:
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
Bloomberg:
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.
Rafe Uddin / Financial Times:
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
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 …
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.
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA is gathering information from market players to determine whether Google's partnership with Anthropic qualifies as a merger and harms UK competition  —  - CMA will review whether investment causes competition issues  — Google committed to investing $2 billion into the AI startup
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.

Sponsor Posts

Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
How to choose the right live chat software for your business  —  In a world where instant communication is the norm, live chat software enables businesses to meet customer expectations with real-time assistance.
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Wed. 11/13 - Amazon Haul
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:15 PM ET, July 30, 2024.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

Brady Dale / Axios:
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Disha Mishra / Reuters:

Earlier Picks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
More: Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Apple Machine Learning …, MacRumors, The Independent, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, HotHardware, The Register, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Spyglass, Apple, Entrepreneur, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Forbes, Daring Fireball, Benzinga, O'Grady's PowerPage, Silicon Republic, Cult of Mac, MySmartPrice, BGR, Tom's Guide, Cybernews.com, Gizchina.com, Financial Express, Business Standard, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, The Indian Express, Moneycontrol, Six Colors, New York Post, iDrop News, Newser, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Brandon Butch on YouTube, The Apple Post, zollotech on YouTube, Stephen Robles on YouTube, Digital Trends, Laptop Mag, The Verge, Patently Apple, SlashGear, Supercharged, 9to5Mac, The Verge, mjtsai.com, Neowin, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup, ZDNET, Macworld, Quartz, Thurrott, Mashable, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, Engadget, Mashable, CNET, CNET, AppleInsider, BGR, BGR, ExtremeTech, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, WinBuzzer, Android Headlines, Lifewire, PYMNTS.com, The Week, Bloomberg, and NewsBytes