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AI Tools for Small Business Get a Meta Upgrade
Meta rolled out a set of AI features aimed at small businesses that connect to Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and…
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Meta to pay $17 billion, overhaul Facebook and Instagram in teen addiction settlement
Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion and make changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms as part of a landmark settlement to resolve…
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'The young ones are the best ones': Meta on trial for alleged effort to hook kids
California launched a salacious opening to its hotly anticipated multistate lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday morning, detailing the tech…
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Meta, TikTok and others agree to teen safety ratings
Meta, TikTok and Snap will be rated on their teen safety efforts amid rising concern about whether the world’s largest social media…
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Is social media harmful for kids? Meta and YouTube face trial after TikTok settles suit
TikTok has agreed to settle the first in a series of closely-watched product liability cases, bowing out on the eve of a landmark trial…
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Lawsuit claims Meta can see WhatsApp chats in breach of privacy
The complaint cites ‘whistleblowers’ as having helped bring this information to light, though it doesn’t explain who they are…
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Why is Meta laying off workers again?
Social media giant Meta said it’s cutting more than 1,000 workers and closing several content studios as it focuses its efforts on…
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Meta signs multi-gigawatt nuclear deals for AI data centres
The agreements could end up totalling more than six gigawatts, enough to power a city of about five million homes Meta Platforms agreed to…
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Meta acquires Singapore-based startup Manus to bolster AI business
Meta Platforms has agreed to acquire Singapore-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Manus, which makes an AI agent that it sells to…
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EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Meta's New AI Policy For WhatsApp
Europe's competition regulator has opened a formal investigation into tech giant Meta over policy changes that allow the company's own AI…
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Meta opens flagship store in West Hollywood to showcase AI glasses, VR headsets
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, opened a new flagship store in Los Angeles where people can try out their smart…
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Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI division
Meta is slashing roughly 600 jobs in its artificial intelligence unit as the tech giant aims to move faster to compete with its rivals.…
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Race to make smart glasses relevant heats up again with new tech from Meta and Snap
More than a decade ago, pricey smart glasses that allowed people to snap photos, text and browse the web generated a lot of buzz but also…
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D2C Brands Must Master Meta and Google to Succeed
When new direct-to-consumer brands ask me about paid advertising strategies, I often see them searching for some secret channel or hidden…
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Meta to add new AI safeguards after Reuters report raises teen safety concerns
is adding new teenager safeguards to its artificial intelligence (AI) products by training systems to avoid flirty conversations and…
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Meta to share AI infrastructure costs via US$2 billion asset sale
Meta Platforms is pressing ahead with efforts to bring in outside partners to help fund the massive infrastructure needed to power…
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Zuckerberg says Meta will invest hundreds of billions in superintelligence
Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday (Jul 14) that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of US dollars on computing power to build…
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Zuckerberg debuts Meta ‘superintelligence’ group, more hires
Meta Platforms chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced a major restructuring of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Meta seeks US$29 billion from private capital firms for AI data centres, FT reports
Meta Platforms is seeking to raise US$29 billion from private capital firms to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in the US,…
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were…
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Meta in talks for scale AI investment that could top US$10 billion
Meta Platforms is in talks to make a multibillion-dollar investment into artificial intelligence startup Scale AI, according to people…
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Meta aims to fully automate advertising with AI by 2026: WSJ
Meta Platforms aims to allow brands to fully create and target advertisements with its artificial intelligence tools by the end of next…
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Meta AI bot used a billion times monthly: Mark Zuckerberg
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg touted the tech firm’s generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) assistant on Wednesday, telling shareholders…
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Zuckerberg's internal messages revealed in court battle, sparking concerns
Frustration with Facebook is growing online after internal messages from Mark Zuckerberg surfaced in a federal antitrust case. The…