Image: HP HP has a groundbreaking announcement. No, it’s not making it easier to use cheaper, third-party ink, nor does it have a solution for frequent paper jams and irritating software issues. It’s bringing AI to printers. The new HP Print AI experience is rolling out today in an “exclusive” beta and comes with a … Read more
Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan has been held in custody by Nigeria since February. Now a resolution calling for his release is progressing through Congress.
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back on the idea that social media directly harms teen mental health. During an interview with The Verge’s Alex Heath, Zuckerberg said that “the majority of the high-quality research out there suggests that there’s no causal connection at a broad scale … Read more
Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Llama 3.2 models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Llama 3.2 offers multi-modal vision and lightweight models representing Meta’s latest advancement in large language models (LLMs), providing enhanced capabilities and broader applicability across various use cases. With a focus on responsible innovation and system-level safety, these new models … Read more
Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Llama 3.2 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon Bedrock. The Llama 3.2 models are a collection of state-of-the-art pre-trained and instruct fine-tuned generative AI models that come in various sizes—in lightweight text-only 1B and 3B parameter models suitable for edge devices, to small and medium-sized 11B … Read more
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan wants to bring the famed accelerator’s Demo Day presentations back as in-person events by the end of the year. During Tan’s opening remarks during Wednesday’s YC summer cohort Demo Day, he said this week’s Demo Day presentations will, “knock on wood,” be the final ones held entirely online. Tan added … Read more
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for it to matter. In an interview with The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath, Zuckerberg said Meta will … Read more
Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge Meta has big ambitions for using AI to help creators, and it showed two impressive demos of what that could look like onstage at Connect today. One version of this involves fully recreating real influencers as AI figures. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented a live demo of a … Read more
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Meta has a bunch of new hardware and AI news coming out of its Meta Connect event today, including a new Quest 3S VR headset, an expansion of Meta AI features, a new Llama model, and a first look at the new Orion augmented reality glasses. CEO Mark … Read more
Meta’s next-gen Orion AR glasses come with a wrist-worn “neural interface” for navigation and control. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
:::info Authors: (1) Chengfeng Shen, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing; (2) Yifan Luo, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing; (3) Zhennan Zhou, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Model and 2.1 Optimal Stopping and Obstacle Problem 2.2 Mean Field Games with … Read more
At Wednesday’s Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced what he described as Meta teases Orion, ‘the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.’ The glasses, which are notably significantly smaller than Snap’s recently announced Spectacles 5, are true AR. Orion utilize tiny projects built into the glasses temples to create a heads-up display … Read more
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump won chits from the Bitcoin community for reportedly purchasing smash burgers at a Bitcoin-friendly New York pub. But in a way, the whole episode was about damage control.
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Meta Connect 2024 is starting soon, and with it comes the expectation of reveals and updates to Meta’s latest AI model and metaverse ambitions. The developer-centric event will feature a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, during which he will likely showcase new hardware and software to support two of Meta’s big ambitions: AI and the … Read more
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses got an update with new familiar smartphone features and AI capabilities coming later in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are already one of the best cracks at AI hardware to date. Now, Meta is pushing out a series of software updates, along with a new transparent Ray-Ban style, that bring the smart glasses closer to actually feeling smart. The company announced several updates … Read more
Onstage during its Connect 2024 developer conference, Meta showed Hyperspace, a feature that lets users scan real-life spaces and explore them in VR. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
At its annual Meta Connect event on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company has rebuilt its social apps for mixed reality. “We’ve got all new Instagram and Facebook experiences to bring your feeds and your Reels with you into mixed reality,” Zuckerberg said. “A really nice interface so you can lean back … Read more
Canva just announced new enhancements to its developer platform, such as including premium apps with its Pro subscription, a translation feature for apps, better discovery mechanisms, and new API functionalities. The creative tool company started its developer program in June 2023 to let developers build add-ons that people can use in Canva. Think of them … Read more
The MX Ink is available to buy now following its announcement back in June. | Image: Logitech Logitech has released a pen-shaped Meta Quest controller that makes it easier to draw, sculpt, and manipulate objects in mixed reality environments. After initially being announced back in June, the $129.99 Logitech MX Ink stylus is available to … Read more
