
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
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Meta released an open-weight AI model that anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a letter from the company's leader arguing that AI should be "for everyone" rather than controlled by a small number of labs. This contrasts with the company's more powerful model, which remains restricted behind proprietary APIs. The stated vision of broad AI access comes with unspecified caveats, as podcast hosts noted when discussing the release and the accompanying manifesto.

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

A judge has identified what appears to be the first time a US plaintiff has attempted to hide text in court filings that only an artificial intelligence system can read in a bid to win a case. In a decision published last week, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. confirmed that the hidden text had no impact in a case where a man alleged a healthcare provider was improperly withholding access to records. The court weighed his filing on the merits, Spader said, but nevertheless, the attempted atta
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