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The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents
25 Sep

The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents

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The most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful chores on your computers for you.Released today by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, can interpret images as well as converse through a chat interface. This means it can make sense of a computer screen, potentially helping an AI agent perform tasks such as browsing the web, navigating through file directories, and drafting documents.“With this release, many more people can deploy a multimodal model,” says Ali Farhadi,…
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Meta Connect 2024: The cheaper Quest 3S, AI, smart glasses and everything else to expect
21 Sep

Meta Connect 2024: The cheaper Quest 3S, AI, smart glasses and everything else to expect

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It used to go by at least two different names — Oculus Connect and then Facebook Connect — but whatever the moniker, Meta’s fall event is still a big showcase for the company’s latest and greatest achievements in the virtual reality and mixed reality space. Much like last year, we can likely predict the biggest news coming out of Meta Connect 2024 with just two acronyms: AI and AR.Like every other big tech firm this year, Meta will be desperate to demonstrate how it plans to stay relevant in a future powered by AI. And now that we're seven months…
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Meta Connect Starts Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect
20 Sep

Meta Connect Starts Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect

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Meta Connect, the big developer event and hardware showcase from the company that runs Facebook and Instagram, is kicking off next week. Meta is likely to show off its new VR and mixed-reality technology, put a shiny polish on its meandering metaverse ambitions, and delve into all the fresh ways it plans to squeeze artificial intelligence into every crevice of its devices and services.The event takes place on Wednesday September 25, starting at 10 am Pacific time. The keynote address, where most of the new stuff will be announced, will be livestreamed. The host for the event will be Meta…
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Meta bans Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram
17 Sep

Meta bans Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram

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Meta has banned RT and other Russian state media outlets on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram. "After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets," the company told Engadget in a statement. "Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity." Meta shared briefing materials with Reuters, in which the company said it found evidence in the past that Russian outlets took steps to prevent their foreign interference activities online from being detected. It said it expects the outlets to continue with their deceptive practices.…
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Everything to expect at Meta Connect 2024: AR, AI and the cheaper Quest 3S
15 Sep

Everything to expect at Meta Connect 2024: AR, AI and the cheaper Quest 3S

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It used to go by at least two different names — Oculus Connect and then Facebook Connect — but whatever the moniker, Meta’s fall event is still a big showcase for the company’s latest and greatest achievements in the virtual reality and mixed reality space. Much like last year, we can likely predict the biggest news coming out of Meta Connect 2024 with just two acronyms: AI and AR.Like every other big tech firm this year, Meta will be desperate to demonstrate how it plans to stay relevant in a future powered by AI. And now that we're seven months…
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Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones
14 Sep

Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones

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Synthetic voices have been proliferating for years, and the generative AI boom of the new ’20s has sped that process right along. AI voices are everywhere—in podcasts, in political campaigns, and in chatbots where they maybe-not-so-subtly replicate celebrity voices. Soon, they’ll be all up in your audiobooks too.Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook company, announced a trial program for generating AI voice clones to read works in its audiobook marketplace. The announcement came via a post in ACX—Audiobook Creation Exchange—Audible’s service that lets authors and publishers turn written books into audiobooks.“We're taking measured steps to test new technologies to help expand our…
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Meta hides warning labels for AI-edited images
14 Sep

Meta hides warning labels for AI-edited images

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Starting next week, Meta will no longer put an easy-to-see label on Facebook images that were edited using AI tools, and it will make it much harder to determine if they appear in their original state or had been doctored. To be clear, the company will still add a note to AI-edited images, but you'll have to tap on the three-dot menu at the upper right corner of a Facebook post and then scroll down to find "AI Info" among the many other options. Only then will you see the note saying that the content in the post may have…
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Utah judge blocks law preventing youth from accessing social media freely
12 Sep

Utah judge blocks law preventing youth from accessing social media freely

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On Tuesday, Chief US District Judge Robert Shelby granted a preliminary injunction to from limiting the social media usage of minors. Republican Governor Spencer Cox had signed the Utah Minor Protection in Social Media Act earlier in March. It was supposed to take effect on October 1, but the court’s decision to block the law is a victory for young social media users in Utah.This isn’t the first time Utah’s governor has attempted to use among the youths in the state. Last year, he signed two bills that required parents to grant permission for teens to create social media accounts,…
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In its first Threads case, Meta’s Oversight Board asked for clarity on death threats
10 Sep

In its first Threads case, Meta’s Oversight Board asked for clarity on death threats

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Meta’s Oversight Board has weighed in on its first Threads case and reversed the company’s initial decision and first appeal. Regarding a post about the outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, using a phrase that translates to “drop dead / die” in English, the board determined the phrase was used figuratively and not as a literal threat or call to violence.The case was sparked by a Threads post showing a news article about Kishida and his reaction to his political party’s (ahem) “fundraising irregularities.” The caption criticized the Prime Minister, accusing him of tax evasion. The user’s reply demanded an…
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Meta shares how WhatsApp and Messenger will interact with other messaging apps in the EU
07 Sep

Meta shares how WhatsApp and Messenger will interact with other messaging apps in the EU

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Meta is making changes to WhatsApp and Messenger in order to add interoperability with third-party chat apps — in Europe, that is — and the company is sharing how it would work in a new post. Based on previous reports, Meta started working on enabling third-party chats last year after the rules of the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into effect. Under the DMA, "gatekeepers" or the largest companies and platforms in the industry have to ensure interoperability with third parties since they're prohibited from favoring their own services.The company said it gathered feedback from potential partners and other…
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