EP-74 Apple’s Ai Leap 📱, Meta’s Video Vision 🎥, and Ai Safety in Transit 🚌

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for tuesday, july 30th! dive into today's top tech stories:

• apple intelligence preview: apple unveils its ai capabilities with features like enhanced siri, auto-generated emails and images, and efficient notification sorting, available in the developer beta of ios 18.1, ipados, and macos.
• apple's ai training practices: a new technical paper from apple highlights their approach using public, licensed, and curated data, emphasizing user privacy in ai training.
• meta's segment anything 2: ceo mark zuckerberg introduces sa2, which extends object identification to video, reflecting major advancements in ai vision technology, and makes the model and annotated video database freely available.
• u.s. commerce department's support for open-weight ai models: new report backs models like meta's llama 3.1, recommending capabilities to monitor risks, aligning with the biden-harris administration's responsible ai development initiative.
• las vegas ai weapon detection: the city fully deploys ai-based weapon detection technology on its public transit system, a $33 million upgrade to enhance safety across over 400 buses.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!