Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of ...
Android

Google Is Using Your Photos and Videos to Train Its AI, Here's How to Stop It

Google has quietly updated its privacy settings to use your uploaded media, including images, audio, and video, to train its AI models, but you can opt out by visiting your Search Services History ...

Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding

Tencent's Hy3 drops the license restrictions that blocked EU and U.K. deployments, cuts hallucination rates in half, and runs ...
PCMag

AMD Ryzen AI Halo First Look: Giant Local AI Power in a Pint-Sized Box

I’ve received one of AMD’s first official AI developer boxes for testing, and it’s an impressive piece of AI hardware with a ...
Tech Xplore

New AI add-on helps developers automate everyday programming tasks

Developers are increasingly relying on large language models (LLMs) for everyday computing tasks such as fixing bugs, ...
The Next Web

Cambridge’s Worldmodeldata raises £7M to turn video games into AI training data

Cambridge startup Worldmodeldata has raised a £7m seed led by Iona Star Capital to turn licensed video-game data into training sets for AI world models.
Tech Times

Compile Once, Run Offline: New AI Method Matches 32B Models With a 23MB File

Local AI inference at 32B-parameter quality, no cloud API required: University of Waterloo researchers released PAW on July 2 ...
Tech Times

NVIDIA Diffusion LLM Hits 2.42x Throughput Without Retraining: Nemotron TwoTower Released

NVIDIA diffusion language model Nemotron TwoTower achieves 2.42x LLM inference throughput without a full retraining run, ...