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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms  —  – Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks  — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors’ fears of AI Source link

Bharti Airtel is re-farming the mid-band spectrum of its existing bands, the company announced on Monday. It aims to accommodate the growing need for traffic demand for its 5G network with this move. Consequently, four bands across its mid-band spectrum will be repurposed to support newer technologies catering to the 5G services offered by Airtel.

Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: A Holdings Corp., a holding company owned equally by SoftBank and Naver, plans to sell down its stake in LY’s ~$1B tender; LY operates Line messaging app  —  A Holdings Corp., a holding company owned equally by Japan’s SoftBank Corp. and South Korea’s Naver Corp., plans to sell down its stake

Paris Olympics 2024, or the Olympic Games, are underway in Paris. More than 10,000 athletes across 200 countries have assembled to compete in the oldest international sporting event of humanity. The event is considered a grand showcase of human athleticism, endurance, and sportsmanship. However, over the years, the event has also become an intersection of

The Canadian Press: Study: a year after Meta blocked news content in Canada due to the Online News Act, Canadians’ total engagement with news content on social media is down 43%  —  Canadian news struggling after Meta ban: study  —  MONTREAL – A new study is painting a grim portrait of how local Canadian news

Apple predicted that its new artificial intelligence features will spur iPhone upgrades in coming months, helping the company reemerge from a sales slowdown that has hit its China business especially hard.  Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, speaking on a conference call Thursday to discuss third-quarter results, said that upcoming Apple Intelligence features will provide a

Pei Li / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple in recent months has demanded Tencent and ByteDance close loopholes used by their in-app creators to funnel users to external payment systems  —  – iPhone maker wants to close loopholes in mini-games payments  — Handling in-app purchases is a lucrative business for Apple Source link

Meta released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Monday that can perform complex computer vision tasks. Dubbed Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), it follows after its predecessor that was launched last year and was incorporated in Instagram’s Backdrop and Cutouts tools. The successor to the model now comes with advanced capabilities and the

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel extends the warranty for its boxed Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors by an additional two years, due to customers experiencing instability issues  —  Trying to build goodwill.  —  Intel told us today that it will extend the warranty on its boxed Intel Core 13th- and 14th-Gen processors

Google Chrome may be getting a new search feature that works similarly to ‘Circle to Search’ – the visual lookup tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) which Google introduced in January, according to a report. The feature is said to be integrated into Google Lens and can be accessed via a beta version of Google