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Blind Veterans Near Chicago Received Free AI Glasses
About 50 veterans with vision loss received free Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses with hands-on training in Rosemont ahead of Veterans Day. Meta and the Blinded Veterans Association plan to provide the glasses to 130,000 veterans nationwide, helping with reading, navigation, calls, and email.
Source: FOX 32 Chicago
Meta's AI Crawlers Nearly Took an Artist's Business Offline
Meta's web crawlers visited San Diego children's author Chelsea Paulus's website more than 550,000 times in 48 hours, pushing her hosting CPU usage to 80%, then 100% when a second Meta bot arrived. She edited robots.txt and got her host to add blocking code, but still had to remove the webpage link from her Instagram profile to keep human clicks from finishing the site off. Meta says site owners can manage its crawlers through robots.txt.
Source: Business Insider