Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney officially launches its password-sharing crackdown, letting users add an “Extra Member” for $6.99/month for Disney+ Basic, or $9.99 for Disney+ Premium — The company rolled out what it is calling its paid sharing policy this week, letting users add a member outside their household …
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will likely strike “certain partnerships” for AI training content, but some publishers may be overestimating their content’s value (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will likely strike “certain partnerships” for AI training content, but some publishers may be overestimating their content’s value — ‘If they demanded that we don’t use their content, then we just wouldn’t use their content.’
Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 — Hidden among the Meta Connect 2024 hardware announcements comes word that the social media giant is sunsetting two key members of its Quest VR headset line.
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ — Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it’s a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels — Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, is getting a new voice mode of sorts. — At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park …
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones (David Lumb/CNET)
David Lumb / CNET:
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones — The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people’s phones… and potentially smaller accessories, too.
Meta AI’s Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta AI’s Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more — Meta AI’s Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram …
Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday.
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June — Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24.
Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 (Meta for Developers on Facebook)
Meta for Developers on Facebook:
Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 — Join Mark Zuckerberg as he shares Meta’s vision for AI and the metaverse, including Meta’s newest product announcements. Then stay with us for the Developer Keynote, where you’ll hear from executives across Meta on how our latest technologies …
