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Meta’s Threads has 200 million users
02 Aug

Meta’s Threads has 200 million users

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The Threads app has passed the 200 million user mark, Meta exec Adam Mosseri. The milestone comes one day after Mark Zuckerberg said that the service was “about” to hit 200 million users during the company’s latest earnings call.While Threads is still relatively tiny compared to Meta’s other apps, it has grown at a much faster clip. Zuckerberg previously announced users last month as Threads marked its one-year anniversary, and the Meta CEO has repeatedly speculated that it could be the company’s next one-billion-user app.“We've been building this company for 20 years, and there just are not that many opportunities…
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Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engine and share revenue with publishers
30 Jul

Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engine and share revenue with publishers

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When people type a question into Perplexity, the two-year-old search engine scours the internet and uses information from multiple sources, including online publishers, to synthesize an answer using AI. Soon, Perplexity will start sharing revenue with some publishers as part of an advertising platform it plans to launch around the end of September, the company announced on Tuesday.The initiative, known as the Perplexity Publishers’ Program, comes less than two months after the San Francisco-based startup backed by investors like Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA, and valued at $3 billion, came under fire from Forbes, Wired, and Condé Nast for allegedly scraping…
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Mark Zuckerberg says ‘f*ck that’ to closed platforms
30 Jul

Mark Zuckerberg says ‘f*ck that’ to closed platforms

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In his two decades running the company now known as Meta, Mark Zuckerberg has gone through many transformations. More recently, he’s been showing off less filtered version of himself. But during a live streamed conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, the Meta CEO seemed to veer a little more off script than he intended.The conversation began normally enough, with the two billionaire executives congratulating each other on their AI dominance. Zuckerberg made sure to talk up the company’s recent announcement before settling into his usual talking points, which recently have included .Zuckerberg then launched into a lengthy rant about his…
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Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers
29 Jul

Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers

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The next time you DM a creator on Instagram, you might get a reply from their AI. Meta is starting to roll out its AI Studio, a set of tools that will allow Instagram creators to make an AI persona that can answer questions and chat with their followers and fans on their behalf.The company first introduced AI Studio at its Connect event last fall but it only recently began to test creator-made AIs with a handful of prominent Instagrammers. Now, Meta is making the tools available to more US-based creators and giving the rest of its users the chance…
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Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself
29 Jul

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

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Over the past year, Meta has become an AI success story thanks to its decision to offer robust AI models for free. Last week, the company released a powerful version of its large language model Llama, providing developers, researchers, and startups with free access to a model comparable to the powerful paid model one behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company says its new chatbots are all based on the latest version of Llama.And yet Meta has struggled to find the right tone and niche for its own AI offerings. Last September, the company launched a range of AI chatbots loosely based…
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WhatsApp hits 100 million monthly active US users
27 Jul

WhatsApp hits 100 million monthly active US users

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I rarely used WhatsApp before moving from the United States to the United Kingdom a couple of years ago, opting for the built-in messaging app on my iPhone or fellow Meta-owned platform Messenger. No one I knew in the US used it, and, in fact, I had to get friends and family members to download it when I moved so we could communicate without being charged — you're welcome, Mark Zuckerberg. Well, that seems to be changing, with the head of Meta announcing WhatsApp has reached 100 million monthly active users across the United States — with about 10 million…
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Meta needs updated rules for sexually explicit deepfakes, Oversight Board says
25 Jul

Meta needs updated rules for sexually explicit deepfakes, Oversight Board says

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Meta’s Oversight Board is urging the company to update its rules around sexually explicit deepfakes. The board made the recommendations as part of its decision in two cases involving AI-generated images of public figures.The cases stem from two user appeals over AI-generated images of public figures, though the board declined to name the individuals. One post, which originated on Instagram, depicted a nude Indian woman. The post was reported to Meta but the report was automatically closed after 48 hours, as was a subsequent user appeal. The company eventually removed the post after attention from the Oversight Board, which nonetheless…
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Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky
23 Jul

Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

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Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free.Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the cost of developing Llama 3.1 but Zuckerberg recently told investors that his company is spending billions on AI development.Through this latest release, Meta is showing that the closed approach favored by most AI companies is not the only way to develop AI. But the company is…
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Meta will reportedly withhold multimodal AI models from the EU amid regulatory uncertainty
18 Jul

Meta will reportedly withhold multimodal AI models from the EU amid regulatory uncertainty

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Meta has decided to not offer its upcoming multimodal AI model and future versions to customers in the European Union citing a lack of clarity from European regulators, according to a report by Axios. The models in question are designed to process not only text but also images and audio, and power AI capabilities in Meta platforms as well as the company’s Ray-Ban smart glasses."We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months, but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment," Meta said in a statement to Axios.Meta’s move follows a…
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Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study
17 Jul

Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study

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Serious concerns have been raised about the effect of social media on teenagers’ mental well-being. Meta is letting a group of researchers examine some of Instagram’s data to determine if social media is psychologically damaging younger users. reported that the Center for Open Science (COS) is launching a new joint pilot program with Meta to produce independent studies about how social media affects teenagers’ mental health.The program will conduct “independent academic” research using up to six months of Instagram data to determine the “potential positive or negative associations of Instagram use” among teens and young adults. The study will also examine…
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