Jay Peters / The Verge:
Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia unveil an AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams in real time and even act as a cohost — Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia are partnering on a new AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams …
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into about 2.6M Tesla vehicles after reports of crashes linked to its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature (Reuters)
Reuters:
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into about 2.6M Tesla vehicles after reports of crashes linked to its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla …
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn’t cover deepfakes (Catarina Demony/Reuters)
Catarina Demony / Reuters:
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn’t cover deepfakes — Creating and sharing sexually explicit “deepfakes” will become a criminal offence in Britain, the government said on Tuesday …
TikTok’s sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations (Axios)
Axios:
TikTok’s sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations — – ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok they won’t pay attention to its other apps.
Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time — Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer is introducing what might be its most controversial “project” yet — an …
Reddit unveils Reddit Pro Trends, which allows companies to see what users are discussing about “virtually anything” on Reddit, and a new ad format for AMAs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Reddit unveils Reddit Pro Trends, which allows companies to see what users are discussing about “virtually anything” on Reddit, and a new ad format for AMAs — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Reddit unveiled new trends tools aimed at businesses and a new ad format for its Ask Me Anything (AMA) Q&A sessions.
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content” (New York Times)
New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content” — The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts.
Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression” and “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on” (Fox News)
Fox News:
Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression” and “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on” — FIRST ON FOX: Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” …
Chipmaker NXP agrees to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625M in cash to build out its products for software-defined vehicle makers (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg:
Chipmaker NXP agrees to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625M in cash to build out its products for software-defined vehicle makers — Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV agreed to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625 million in cash to build …
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US (Bruna Horvath/NBC News)
Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
