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Twitch is Mining Peoples' Streams to Train Amazon's AI

Twitch will train Amazon's AI models on streamers' content by default, requiring users to manually opt out in security settings.

Twitch announced a setting that lets streamers opt out of having their channel content train Amazon's generative AI models, confirming about a week of rumors. The toggle, labeled 'Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon,' is opt-out rather than opt-in and sits at the bottom of the security settings page. Critics note many streamers may never learn of the change or find the buried setting, sweeping their content into Amazon's training data by default.

404 Media · Aug 13, 2026AI industry

[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier

Fal post-trained MiniMax H3 into a 'Max' variant with 35x-faster inference, enabling faster-than-realtime AI video generation and infinite streams.

Fal post-trained MiniMax's H3 model into a 'Max' variant and optimized it for its in-house inference engine, achieving roughly 35x the speed of the official endpoint. The optimization enables faster-than-realtime video generation, demonstrated by an infinite interactive AI-generated stream productized by levels.io. The roundup also notes Meta Muse Code's general availability with an SDK, open DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp weights, GLM-5.3-Flash's strong agentic cost/performance rankings, and Tencent's 770B-parameter Hy4 Preview MoE with 49B active parameters.

Latent Space · 16d agoAI industry

Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work

Superhuman acquires AI notetaker Fathom to add meeting context and agentic workflows to its 40-million-user productivity platform.

Superhuman is acquiring Y Combinator-backed AI notetaker Fathom, which raised over $30 million and was valued at $94 million in 2024. Fathom reports 400,000+ monthly active users and over 1 million people have recorded meetings with it. The deal adds notetaking to Superhuman's suite (email, docs, calendar, database, AI agent builder) to enable proactive AI agents driven by meeting context, competing with Granola, Read AI, and Wispr.

TechCrunch · AI · 2d agoAI industry