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Jul 7, 2026

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 their content....

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Jul 7, 2026

OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company

Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial....

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Jul 7, 2026

Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos

Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image...

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Jul 7, 2026

Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cyc...

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Jul 7, 2026

Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending....

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Jul 7, 2026

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its ...

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Jul 7, 2026

Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web

Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolli...

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Jul 7, 2026

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if...

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Jul 7, 2026

Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone

Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents....

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Jul 7, 2026

These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras

You can clip a cover over the cameras, which could be a double-edged sword....

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Jul 7, 2026

Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses

Solos announced a new version of its AirGo smart glasses, one that forgoes cameras for a sleeker design and an AI assistant that relies on v...

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MIT Technology Review

Jul 7, 2026

The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of te...

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Jul 7, 2026

Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday....

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The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

MIT Technology Review

Jul 7, 2026

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology co...

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Jul 7, 2026

Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI....

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Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

MIT Technology Review

Jul 7, 2026

Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickm...

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Jul 7, 2026

British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit

The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers beha...

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Jul 7, 2026

The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

Forterra has deployed more than 100...

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