Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, said this week that the company will temporarily turn off its “Make Design” AI feature after being accused of “heavily” teaching the tool on other apps. The new feature, shown off at the company’s annual Config conference, was meant to speed up the design process by creating UI layouts and components from text prompts. However, it was criticized for looking too much like Apple’s Weather app.
YouTube changed its rules in a quiet way this week, letting users ask for the removal of AI-generated or other fake content that imitates their voice or face. The move shows that YouTube has changed its mind. The company now sees deep fakes as a privacy problem instead of just a content moderation issue.
Fisker has asked the judge in Delaware Bankruptcy Court who is in charge of its Chapter 11 case to allow it to sell the last of its all-electric Ocean SUVs. If approved, the company will be able to sell its finished EVs to a New York-based car leasing business for about $14,000. This is a big drop from the starting price of $70,000 that some of them used to have.
News
A mix of Twitter and My Space for Gen Z: The new app no place is like a modern-day My Space, with colorful, editable accounts. It’s aimed to bring the “social” back to “social media,” and it’s quickly become the most popular app in the App Store.
How to stay away from scams that use AI: Generative AI has made it easier, cheaper, and even more convincing to pull off online scams. This is a helpful list of things you can do to keep yourself and your family safe.
Stop being so silly on video calls: You’re not the only one who has seen thumbs-ups and confetti go off on your screen during a video call. On your Apple devices, here’s how to turn that setting off.
Amazon stops making Astro for Business: Just seven months after it came out, Amazon has chosen to stop making the Astro for Business security robot because the company is now focusing on the Astro for Home.
A natural 1 for safety: Roll20, a popular online site for tabletop and role-playing games, had a data breach that let some users’ personal information get out. The platform is now telling users about the hack.
It’s time for Cloud flare to fight AI bots: The publicly traded cloud service provider has released a new, free tool to stop bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to feed into AI models.
Is Gemini really as good as Google says it is? Google has said that its AI models can do things that were previously impossible, like summarizing several hundred-page papers. But new study shows that the models might not be as good as the company says.
Already 1 billion records have been stolen: There have been some of the worst and most damaging data hacks in recent years this year. All of these companies, from AT&T to Ticketmaster, have had their data stolen in 2024.
Analysis
A year of Threads: Meta’s answer to Twitter, Threads, just turned one year old. 175 million people use the social network every month, but it’s still trying to find its own voice. That being said, Threads isn’t as newsy as X or as open as Mastodon or Bluesky…but for now. That’s what Ivan Mehta thinks about the app’s first year and what it can learn from other social networks.
There are no limits on what the Supreme Court can do for regulators: By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court overturned the 1984 case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. This could be one of the most important decisions the court has ever made in the tech business. On paper, wetlands and the EPA don’t seem to have much to do with technology. However, Devin Coldewey writes that the decision means that officials can get involved in anything they want.
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