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Apple's newly released developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 contain the company's first set of AI features, including a Siri with an updated design and ability to maintain context across multiple requests, new Mail features like smart replay and email summaries, and natural language search in Photos. The features will likely not be rolled out to general users until well into 2025. They will only work on the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max or on iPads and Macs with Apple Silicon chips. Beta testers will need to join a waitlist for access to the features.
Multiple YouTube users are reporting that the site is serving them with blank ads or black screens before a video when they are using an ad-blocker extension. The change makes users wait for their content, partially defeating the purpose of using an ad blocker. YouTube began testing server-side ad injection last month to further render ad blockers obsolete. The solution inserts ads directly into the main YouTube video feed so that ad blockers can no longer distinguish the two pieces of media.
Meta has released a new tool called AI Studio, enabling users in the US to create AI characters on Instagram or the web to interact with followers on their behalf. These AI profiles can engage in direct chat threads, respond to comments, and are customizable based on the creator’s Instagram content and specified interaction guidelines. In addition to creating personalized AI, users can also design entirely new characters to use across Meta’s platforms, with Meta ensuring these AI profiles are clearly labeled to avoid confusion.
Perplexity has started a program to share advertising revenue with publishers after facing plagiarism accusations from several media outlets. The "Publishers' Program" includes partners like Time, Der Spiegel, and Automattic, who will receive a portion of ad revenue for their content used by Perplexity. This initiative follows investigations by Forbes and Wired, which reported Perplexity’s AI misusing and paraphrasing their articles without proper attribution.
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Apple detailed its reasons for using Google's homegrown Tensor Processing Unit for training in a recent technical paper.
LG and Samsung demonstrated transparent television screens at CES 2024. The companies have very different approaches to the technology - Samsung is betting on microLED screens while LG is pursuing OLED displays. Neither technology is ready yet. This article takes a deep dive into each of these display technologies.
Meta is launching an AI Studio. You can create custom AI characters for Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp (US only). No tech skills are needed to build these characters—just prompting. Example: AIs for cooking tips, meme generation, or creator clones that answer fan questions.
OpenAI is starting an alpha program with an experimental version of GPT-4o with a maximum of 64K output tokens. It’ll cost 20% more than the regular GPT-4o in the API.
Google Workspace had an authentication weakness that allowed hackers to impersonate other companies and log into third-party services using the "Sign in with Google" option, as discovered by security experts.
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