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- Meta shuts down AI tool after backlash over public Instagram accounts
Meta on Friday discontinued an artificial intelligence feature that allowed users to generate images by referencing public Instagram accounts, days after introducing the tool as part of a broader rollout of AI-powered creative features on Instagram.The company announced the decision in an update to its Instagram blog."Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to reference," the company wrote. "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way. We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."FOUR STATES SEEKING $1.4 TRILLION IN PENALTIES IN CHILD SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION TRIAL, META SAYSThe feature was announced Tuesday alongside more than 30 new AI-powered effects for Instagram Stories using Muse Image, the first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. According to Instagram, the new effects allow users to transform photos with a single tap, while a redesigned editing composer lets users preview AI-generated edits before sharing them.As part of the rollout, Meta also introduced a feature allowing users to @-mention public Instagram accounts in Meta AI to generate creative images featuring those accounts, including personalized birthday cards, group trip memes and other edited images."We want our community to have control over how their content is used for creation," Instagram said in Tuesday's announcement. The company said users who did not want their public Instagram content used through the AI feature could disable it through the app's Sharing and Reuse settings.JUDGE LETS STATES PURSUE CLAIMS THAT META DESIGNED FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM TO ADDICT CHILDRENSAG-AFTRA, which represents performers across film, television and other media, urged members Thursday to opt out of the feature, writing on social media, "Take action to protect your likeness."Neal K. Shah, an NIH-funded caregiving researcher and CEO of CareYaya, said he has already seen AI-generated ads misuse his likeness to promote supplements falsely claiming to help people with dementia."I think the major alarm bells that went off for me was I saw fraud actually happening in real time," Shah told FOX Business. He said followers began messaging him after seeing advertisements that appeared to show him endorsing products he had never promoted."All of these older people have been scammed, and my image has been used to scam them, and I can't do… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump celebrates $250B Micron investment, says America is ‘GETTING SHOVELS...President Donald Trump on Friday touted Micron Technology's plans to invest $250 billion in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, including what the company says will become the largest chip manufacturing site in American history.The Boise, Idaho-based company announced Thursday that it is accelerating its U.S. manufacturing and research investments with a goal of producing 40% of its DRAM memory chips in the United States."BIGGER INVESTMENTS JUST KEEP COMING!" Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling the announcement "The Trump Effect.""Micron is accelerating its U.S. spending to a MASSIVE 250 BILLION DOLLARS to build Memory Chips right here in the U.S.A.," Trump wrote. "For years, the Do Nothing Dumocrats bogged down American Industry with crushing Red Tape, complete Economic Mismanagement, and ridiculous Woke Mandates."MICRON CEO SAYS AI BOOM DRIVES 'UNPRECEDENTED' MEMORY DEMAND AS COMPANY INVESTS $250BTrump blamed previous Democratic administrations for slowing American manufacturing."They stalled everything. Not anymore! We are slashing the Radical Left's Job killing Regulations, and actually GETTING SHOVELS IN THE GROUND. We are reshooting Manufacturing to America, and securing our Supply Chains. This means THOUSANDS of GREAT JOBS for Hardworking Patriots all across our Country. True Economic Security is MADE IN AMERICA."The company said it expects to spend more than $250 billion through 2035, driven by surging demand for memory chips in the AI era.Micron said construction of the New York facility will require thousands of skilled workers, creating opportunities for union trades, apprentices, local training program graduates, specialty contractors and suppliers.APPLE ACCUSES OPENAI OF TELLING RECRUITS TO BRING APPLE PROTOTYPES TO INTERVIEWSThe company said the project, which marked its first concrete pour at the Clay, New York, site on Thursday, is the largest private investment in New York state history and is expected to create 50,000 jobs statewide, including 9,000 direct Micron jobs.Micron said its semiconductor facilities in Idaho and Virginia, combined with the New York project, are expected to support an additional 90,000 jobs while advancing U.S. economic and national security goals.Trump also highlighted comments from Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, who said the company was increasing its planned U.S. manufacturing and research investment from $200 billion to $250 billion.WORKERS WHO DON'T USE AI MORE LIKELY TO BE LAID OFF, SURVEY FINDS"Last week, I shared with President Trump that, because of his leadership and policies, Micron would announce today that we are ahead of schedule and increasing our U.S. manufacturing and R&D investment from $200 billion to $250… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- New York Times Accuses Federal Employment Agency of Retaliation
A May lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims the newspaper discriminated against a white male employee who did not get a promotion. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Cuisinart stainless steel propane grill sold at Lowe’s and Walmart recalle...Thousands of grills sold online and at Lowe's and Walmart are being recalled due to the risk of glass shattering while the grill is in use, raising the risk of serious injury.Roughly 12,660 stainless steel Cuisinart Propel+ Four Burner 3-in-1 Gas Grills are covered by the U.S. recall, which the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced on Thursday, while about 83 grills were sold in Canada.The model number of the recalled grills is CGG-6331 and may be found on the label inside of the right-hand metal door of the grill, which is also where its serial number is located.The grill includes a griddle, a stove-top burner and a pizza oven with tempered glass on the lid of the grill. The company and the CPSC have urged customers to stop using the grills and to check whether theirs is covered by the recall.MORE THAN 1.7M GRILL BRUSHES RECALLED OVER BRISTLE HAZARD, RISK OF 'SERIOUS INTERNAL INJURIES'"Consumers should stop using the recalled Cuisinart Propel+ Four Burner 3-in-1 Gas Grill immediately and visit Conair's website to check if their grill is included in the recall," the CPSC explained."If affected, follow the instructions to safely remove the tempered glass window on the pizza oven and upload two photographs to the firm's website; one of the removed glass, and one of the grill's serial number," the CPSC explained.MORE THAN 550,000 KOBALT YARD TOOLS RECALLED OVER BATTERY FIRE HAZARDOnce a customer's grill is confirmed as being covered by the recall, affected consumers will receive a $500 refund by check or be reimbursed for the original purchase amount with proof of receipt. Refunds will be issued via check within 10–15 days of a grill being confirmed as subject to the recall. The recall website noted that a receipt isn't needed to qualify for the refund.The CPSC and company directed consumers to write the word "Recall" with a black sharpie marker on the tempered glass after receiving a refund and to dispose of it.CHECK YOUR AC: 13,000 UNITS RECALLED OVER FIRE RISKConsumers who purchased a grill that may be covered by the safety recall may visit a website set up to guide them through the process of verifying whether a grill was covered by the recall, identify and share the serial number, and submit documentation that can allow the company to verify the recalled grill and provide a refund.Grills covered by the recall were sold at Lowe's, Walmart and… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Apple accuses OpenAI of telling recruits to bring Apple prototypes to interviewsApple accused OpenAI on Friday of telling Apple employees interviewing for jobs to bring confidential prototypes, engineering artifacts and hardware components to interviews as part of an effort to accelerate the artificial intelligence company's push into consumer devices.The allegation is among the most explosive claims in a sweeping trade secrets lawsuit Apple filed in federal court against OpenAI, former Apple executives and engineers, accusing them of systematically misappropriating confidential information to build OpenAI's hardware business."At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies to create the best products and services in the world, and protecting their work and intellectual property is something we take very seriously," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Business."Recently, significant evidence has emerged suggesting individuals employed by OpenAI wrongfully took Apple's secret and confidential information regarding our unreleased technologies, processes, and products. We will always defend our teams' hard work and innovations, and we are taking all appropriate steps to do so."APPLE TO INVEST $30 BILLION IN US CHIP MANUFACTURINGAn OpenAI spokesperson did not immediately respond to FOX Business' request for comment.According to Apple's complaint, OpenAI instructed candidates to prepare "Technical Deep Dive" presentations on their Apple work and to bring "CAD/design artifacts," "prototypes" and "Actual parts" to interviews. Apple alleges candidates were specifically asked to bring batteries, systems-in-package, multi-layer logic boards, shields and other hardware components for "show and tell" sessions with interviewers.Apple also alleges Tang Yew Tan, Apple's former vice president of product design for the iPhone and Apple Watch who is now OpenAI's chief hardware officer, used confidential Apple project codenames during interviews to question candidates about unreleased Apple products.One Apple employee allegedly responded that he "didn't even know we could take those from the office," according to the complaint.OPENAI UNVEILS CHATGPT WORK TO AUTOMATE WORKPLACE TASKS AS AI RACE INTENSIFIESThe iPhone maker alleges the recruiting practices were part of a broader strategy to obtain Apple's trade secrets as OpenAI races to develop its own consumer hardware. Apple says OpenAI now employs more than 400 former Apple workers, including engineers involved in hardware development.The lawsuit includes additional allegations that former Apple engineer Chang Liu improperly accessed Apple's internal systems after leaving the company, downloaded confidential engineering files while employed by OpenAI and coached another Apple employee on how to avoid Apple's security procedures before joining OpenAI. Apple also alleges OpenAI used confidential knowledge of Apple's supplier relationships in its efforts… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- LARRY KUDLOW: America’s Central Command, not Iran, controls the Strait of Horm...If you read the press releases from the United States Central Command, you would know that Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. Let me quote: "since early May, U.S. forces have helped facilitate the successful transit of more than 800 commercial vessels and 380 million barrels of crude oil through the vital international trade corridor."Let me repeat those numbers. Actually it’s 825 commercial vessels and 380 million barrels of crude oil just since early May. That’s why oil prices have fallen nearly 40 percent. West Texas crude is priced at $71. About the same as it was one year ago, way before the Iran conflict. Stock markets are no longer dancing to the Iranian-Hormuz oil threat tune. Of course profits are breaking records. And profits are the mothers’ milk of stocks.Yet there’s more to the story. There may be an oil production war developing with the weakening of OPEC. The United Arab Emirates wants to move from around 2 million barrels a day to as much as 5 million. How about Iraq? Remember Iraq? Well they’re going to move from just over a million barrels per day to somewhere around 4 million to 5 million barrels per day. The Saudis are diverting oil exports through their East-West pipeline to the Red Sea. The UAE and other countries have shifted their tankers to the Southern Hormuz channel adjacent to Oman’s coastline. This is killing the Iranian strategy of bottling up the world economy. The United States, meanwhile, is moving toward 14 million barrels per day. And the Energy Information Administration is now forecasting that worldwide crude production and other trade flows will rebound to near pre-conflict levels by the end of the year.Hundreds of oil tankers are still sitting in the upper part of the Arabian Gulf. And they are filled to the brim with oil that will soon hit world markets. And meanwhile, while oil supplies are rapidly recovering, Chinese oil demand has plunged as a result of their continued economic slump. All of this shows how Iran’s supposed Hormuz oil weapon has been neutered. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
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