TikTok Launches AI Literacy Push as Apple's M7 Ultra Reportedly Targets Nvidia

TikTok announced an initiative to address the flood of AI-generated content on its platform, launching an AI literacy guide built with industry partners NAMLE and Henry Ajder and planning an in-app hub to teach practical detection skills, according to Social Media Today. The company said it removed more than 86 million fake accounts in the first three months of the year and has labeled over 3 billion videos as AI-generated content using Content Credentials, creator labels, and invisible watermarking, and it will test improved detection of AI spam accounts in sensitive areas like politics, financial advice, and medical content.

Apple's M7 Ultra chip, with 1.5TB of memory, aims to challenge Nvidia's AI dominance, according to a WebProNews report that could not be retrieved in full. Hardware efficiency gains are coming from other directions too: engineers at Northwestern University built a cerebellum-inspired "memtransistor" device that identified abnormal heart rhythms within one-fifth of a heartbeat at more than 98 percent accuracy while using around 10,000 times fewer operations than conventional AI approaches, per Digital Journal, which notes the work was published in Nature Communications on July 10.

On the talent front, Gadget reports that GirlCode opened applications for the 12th edition of its Pan-African Hackathon spanning six countries, with phases in Botswana and South Africa in August and East Africa and Ghana in September, and for the first time opening the program to female tech founders. Separately, Dr. Jefferson Seneadza guided Africa Excellence Media Fellows on mastering AI for Ghanaian media, per a Ghanamma report that was not accessible in full.

Sources:

• Socialmediatoday
• Webpronews
• Digital Journal
• Gadget
• Ghanamma