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Top 5 AI +Tech News Stories

1. Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone

A newly discovered bug causes iPhones and iPads to briefly crash. All you need to trigger the bug are just four characters.

On Wednesday, a security researcher found that typing “”:: can cause the Apple mobile user interface, called Springboard, to crash.

Those characters do crash Springboard when typed into the Search bar in the Settings app, as well as if you swipe all the way to the right on your home screen and type them into the App Library search bar.

2. Pixel 9's Magic Editor: A New Era of Photographic Deception Using AI, that no one is ready for

Imagine a world where photographs can be manipulated with ease, creating hyper-realistic images of non-existent events. Google's Pixel 9, with its Magic Editor tool, is at the forefront of this unsettling trend. The ability to quickly and convincingly fabricate images raises serious concerns about the reliability of visual evidence in our digital age. As this technology becomes more accessible, we must be vigilant and critically evaluate the authenticity of the images we encounter.

3. Perplexity, The Google alternative, Is Planning Ads.

If you don’t know what is Perplexity.ai, you are officially living under a rock! It’s an AI version of Google, superfast and useful. Google is already scared of it.

It’s the best use case for AI by far, as it helps find the right information and cites them so that you can easily go to the source web page. Now they are planning something else to challenge Google:

It is about to start selling ads alongside AI-assisted search results. The company raised new funding in April that valued the company at more than $1 billion, doubling its valuation from three months earlier.

4. Ideogram, the best free AI imaging app releases Version 2.

Most AI imaging apps and websites, the free versions, cannot draw letters. But Ideogram is great at any type of art, design, typography and creation of 3D banners. Easy to use and free, with a 10 images per day limit. Version 2, released yesterday, has additional features and improvements.

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