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2022

Stability.AI Released Stable Diffusion 2.0

Stability.AI announced its open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2. According to Stability.AI, the original Stable Diffusion V1 led by CompVis changed the nature of open source AI models and spawned hundreds of other models and innovations worldwide. It had one of the fastest climbs to 10K Github stars of any software, rocketing through 33K stars in less than two

Elon Musk To Launch New Blue, Gold, and Grey Twitter Check Marks

Elon Musk has said Twitter verification will return next week with color-coded categories for individuals, government accounts, and companies, The Guardian reported. According to The Guardian, Musk said the platform would launch a new verification service on Friday next week, having pulled an earlier attempt at a revamp that gave blue ticks to accounts paying $7.99 (£6.60) a month after

FCC Bans U.S. Sales Of Huawei And ZTE Over Security Concerns

Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Hytera and Dahua all sell telecommunications equipment and video surveillance technology into the United States, but many of their future security cams and radio hardware will no longer be welcome, The Verge reported. According to The Verge, the Federal Communications Commission has just announced it will no longer authorize some of their equipment - which is a

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving” Beta Is Now Available

Teslarati reported that an increasing number of Tesla owners who purchased the Full Self-Driving suite for their vehicles have reported receiving access to FSD Beta. This was despite some of the owners claiming that their cars have garnered less than 100 Autopilot miles and that their Safety Score was less than 80. According to Teslarati, some Tesla owners remarked that

Elon Musk Will Grant “Amnesty” To Banned Accounts Next Week

Elon Musk says Twitter will enact a general amnesty for suspended accounts next week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter wrote: The billionaire continued his ad hoc strategy of making policy by Twitter poll, asking users Wednesday, “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious

Twitter Purges Workers Tasked With Regulatory And Content Issues

Elon Musk’s move to purge Twitter Inc. employees who don’t embrace his vision has led to a wave departures among policy and safety-issue staffers around the globe, sparking questions from regulators in key jurisdictions about the site’s continued compliance efforts, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, scrutiny has been particularly close in Europe, where officials

Meta Releases Community Standards Enforcement

Earlier this year, Meta Platforms quietly convened a war room of staffers to address a critical problem: virtually all of Facebook’s top-ranked content was spammy, over sexualized, or generally what the company classified as regrettable, The Wall Street Journal reported. Meta’s executives and researchers were growing embarrassed that its widely viewed content report, a quarterly survey of the posts with