The text-to-image generator, which is trained on Getty’s stock pictures, now uses an upgraded version of Nvidia’s Edify AI model, making it faster and more accurate. It also comes with new features to control the “camera settings” used in an AI-generated image, such as depth of field or focal length.
A report from 404 Media reveals how AI companies like Anthropic are bypassing a website’s robots.txt file by deploying new web crawlers with different names. This makes it more difficult for websites to block crawlers, as they constantly need to update their files to include the new bots:
Anthropic’s current and active crawler is called “CLAUDEBOT.” Neither Reuters nor Condé Nast, for example, blocks CLAUDEBOT. This means that these websites—and hundreds of others who have copy pasted old blocker lists—are not actually blocking Anthropic.
Starting today, you’ll no longer be able to purchase games, DLC, and other items from the Xbox 360 Store or the Xbox 360 Marketplace — both of which launched almost 19 years ago.
The shutdown doesn’t affect online multiplayer on the Xbox 360, and you’ll still be able to purchase backward-compatible games and DLC from newer Xbox consoles.
A report from The Telegraph reveals that Apple executives met with the UK’s ratings agency to “discuss potential options for tracking adverts” on Apple TV Plus.
It’s yet another sign Apple is planning to roll out an ad-supported streaming tier, as the company has already hired NBCUniversal ads exec Joseph Cady in March.
[The Telegraph]
On Wednesday, the NBA announced that it had rejected WBD’s offer to air games on TNT in favor of broadcast rights deals with Prime Video, Disney, and Comcast — and now WBD is fighting back with a lawsuit:
We strongly believe this is not just our contractual right, but also in the best interest of fans who want to keep watching our industry-leading NBA content with the choice and flexibility we offer them through our widely distributed WBD video-first distribution platforms — including TNT and Max.
