Tue. 07/30 – A (Mostly) AI Day

Perplexity wants to share ad revenue with publishers. But lots of AI companies are continuing to gamble with scraping. Meta’s new Segment Anything 2 model. AI influencers on Instagram. Canva makes an AI acquisition. And in non-AI news, Meta makes a huge settlement with Texas.

Links:

• Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations (The Verge)
• Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones) (404Media)
• Zuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (TechCrunch)
• Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers (Engadget)
• Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts (TechCrunch)
• Meta to pay $1.4 billion to settle Texas facial recognition data lawsuit (Reuters)

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