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Meta Pulls Muse Image’s Tagging Feature Days After Backlash Over Using People’s Photos Without Consent
Key Takeaways Meta disabled Muse Image’s tagging feature Friday, admitting the tool “missed the mark” after backlash from users and entertainment industry groups. CAA and SAG-AFTRA pressured Meta over Muse’s opt-out default, which allowed public Instagram accounts to be referenced without explicit consent. A Reuters analysis found Meta’s AI image…
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Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Systematic Theft of Trade Secrets to Build Rival Hardware
Key Takeaways Apple sued OpenAI, io Products, and former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade secret theft and breach of contract. The complaint alleges OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan told job candidates to bring Apple components to interviews and coached staff…
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Google Messages Is Finally Fixing the Most Annoying Part of Sharing Something to a Group
Key Takeaways A new share menu spotted in Google Messages offers two distinct options: “Send to a group” and “Send separately,” letting users choose exactly how content reaches multiple people. The feature includes smart logic that redirects to an existing group chat if the selected contacts already match one, avoiding…
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Meta Starts Charging for AI Access as It Chases Anthropic and OpenAI Into Coding
Key Takeaways Muse Spark 1.1 is Meta’s first paid AI model, priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, undercutting comparable Anthropic and OpenAI offerings. Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X to promote the release, calling it “a strong agentic and coding model…
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OpenAI Retires Its Atlas Browser, Folding Its AI Into Chrome and a Revamped Desktop App
Key Takeaways ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s standalone AI browser, will stop working on August 9, 2026, less than nine months after its October 2025 launch. OpenAI says Atlas served as a real-world testbed for teaching its models how to navigate the open web, handle data extraction, and run multi-step browser tasks.…
