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California’s Autoplay and Personalized Feed Ban Draws BigTech Lawsuits
Key Takeaways Meta, Google, and TikTok filed separate suits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block AB 1709, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed in September. The law bars personalized feeds and autoplay for under-16s, requires deleting accounts of users who keep receiving them, and carries fines up to $50,000…
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Meta Makes AI Chats Look Face-to-Face, but Video Remains One-Way
Key Takeaways Meta announced on November 5 that voice conversations with an animated Muse avatar are live in the US, in the Muse app on mobile, web and Mac. The interaction is a one-way, audio-driven visual avatar (Jolly) rendered locally on-screen. Users tap a phone icon to talk, can interrupt…
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Apple Will Now Check Public iCloud Links and May Disable Accounts
Key Takeaways Apple’s support document says items shared with “Anyone with the Link” will be checked from iOS 27.3, and links set to “People you choose” are not described as checked. Apple does not define harmful content or explain how checks work, or whether people or automated systems decide, The…
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You Can Now Create GIFs in ChatGPT and Edit Them Frame by Frame
Key Takeaways ChatGPT can now make an animated GIF from a text prompt or an uploaded photo, adjust its speed, edit individual frames and share it. OpenAI says Images 2.6 generates images faster but gives no figure, and the 50% faster claim in coverage applies to Images 2.5 versus 2.0.…
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Anthropic’s FlashProve Can Catch Hidden AI Model Swaps, but Is Still Experimental
Key Takeaways FlashProve lets anyone check that a reply came from a specific model, using a public fingerprint of the model, without seeing its weights. In Anthropic’s test on Llama 4 Maverick, proving took roughly 72 times as long as normal serving, and each proof was about 19 MB. Proofs…
