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Jay Peters

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    The iPhone 12 is still unavailable in some French territories.

    iOS 17.1 included fixes to make the iPhone 12 legal in France again, but in some French territories, it’s still not for sale. However, Apple is planning a future update for those territories “by the end of this year,” according to a machine-translated version of a webpage by French regulator ANFR.

    ANFR-Actualité

    [www.anfr.fr]

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    Jay Peters
    Xiaomi’s new AI tool can make it seem like you traveled to Paris.

    During Xiaomi’s 14 series launch event (the slideshow below is taken from the video), the company showed off this generative AI tool in development for its HyperOS. Fed several pictures of a particular person, it can create new photos in new places, with examples showing generated pictures of them at the base of a mountain or in front of the Eiffel Tower — like a supercharged version of HeadshotPro.

    While impressive, this tool goes way farther than Google’s new generative AI photo features — is the what-is-a-photo apocalypse already here?

    A presenter showing off a Xiaomi AI tool.
    A presenter showing off a Xiaomi AI tool.
    A presenter showing off a Xiaomi AI tool.
    A presenter showing off a Xiaomi AI tool.
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    The tool takes some images to generate a model of the person in the photo. Those can then be used to...
    Screenshot from TELECOM NEWS’s replay of the Xiaomi 14 series event
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    Jay Peters
    Arc has a way to easily share a lot of links at once to a friend — even if they don’t use Arc.

    Check out in this thread on X from The Browser Company’s Patrick Moberg. Seems pretty useful!

    Ford and UAW reach tentative agreement to end strikeFord and UAW reach tentative agreement to end strike
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    Jay Peters
    The UAW may be close to announcing a tentative agreement with Ford that would end its strike against the company.

    The deal could be announced Wednesday night, the Associated Press reports. Workers at Ford, GM, and Stellantis have been on strike since September.

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    Jay Peters
    Mark Zuckerberg says AI might get to a place where it just generates content in your feeds.

    This is not a future that I like or one that I think will happen, but it’s a way things could go.

    Here’s the full quote, as part of predictions from Zuckerberg about AI, from Meta’s Q3 2023 earnings call (emphasis mine):

    What I predict is… I do think that the fundamental technology around generative AI is going to transform meaningfully how people use each of the different apps that we build. For the feed apps, I think that over time, more of the content that people consume is going to be either generated or edited by AI. Some of it will be… creators will now have all these tools to make content more easily and more fun. And I think over time, maybe we’ll even get to the point where we can just generate content directly for people based on what they might be interested in.

    Zuckerberg also shared an update on Threads.