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Meta rolls out Muse Image, its first Superintelligence Labs image model
Meta has launched Muse Image, the first AI image-generation model developed by its Superintelligence Labs division, which now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook and Messenger to follow. The model is part of Meta’s new Muse family of AI models, which is replacing the company’s Llama lineup,…
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SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls “censorship regime”
The US Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a legal challenge to the Texas App Store Accountability Act, allowing the state to enforce its new age-verification rules while litigation continues. The decision matters because it clears the way for a law that requires app stores to verify users’ ages and impose restrictions on under-18s…
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How to find all Elvira’s clues in her Moonlight Peaks treasure hunt
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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang has put forward a theory that challenges the assumption that cheaper open source AI models are eroding the business of frontier labs such as Anthropic. In a blog post titled “Everyone is wrong about open source AI in the enterprise,” he argues that expensive frontier models and cheaper open source ones…
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Tech Life
This episode of the BBC World Service programme Tech Life, titled “Too young to scroll?”, examines the question of what age is appropriate for a child to be given a smartphone. It focuses on the town of Greystones in Ireland, where the community has adopted a voluntary agreement to hold off giving children smartphones until…
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
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New Girl Creator To Write Britney Spears Biopic
Universal’s planned biopic based on Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman In Me, has recruited Liz Meriwether — the creator of the sitcom New Girl — as its screenwriter. The appointment marks the first significant update since 2024, when it emerged that Spears had sold the rights to her memoir and that Marc Platt would produce…
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Comcast Split, Paramount-WBD Deal, AI Among Hot Topics As Media & Tech Moguls Hit Sun Valley Confab
The pine trees, hiking trails and white water in Sun Valley, ID look about the same as they did last summer. The media landscape does not. Boutique investment bank Allen & Co. has hosted the conference long referred to as summer camp for billionaires every year since 1983, but few editions have unfolded at a…
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How to go on dates in Moonlight Peaks and start your road to romance
Here’s how to get started with wooing all the eligible locals.
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Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs
Following Microsoft’s announcement of 3,200 job cuts across its Xbox division, reports have emerged that its owned game studios — including id Software and Bethesda — have been hit especially hard. While CEO Asha Sharma’s announcement emphasised cuts to the Xbox platform team and redundant middle management, subsequent accounts point to deep losses among the…