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Meta wants its Llama AI in Britain’s public healthcare system
19 Nov

Meta wants its Llama AI in Britain’s public healthcare system

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Meta is making a pitch to get its AI into the UK’s public health system. The Guardian reported on Tuesday that the company held a hackathon in Europe, tasking over 200 developers to use its Llama AI to improve the country’s health services. The company awarded funds for developing AI that shortens wait times in Britain’s A&E rooms (ERs in the US).The UK’s AI minister, Feryal Clark, told The Guardian that the “government can adopt AI, such as Meta’s open-source model, to support our key missions.” Earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light for Llama to…
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Instagram will let you ‘reset’ your recommendations
19 Nov

Instagram will let you ‘reset’ your recommendations

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If your Instagram recommendations have been feeling a little stale, you’ll soon have a way to make the app’s algorithm forget everything it thinks it knows about you. Meta is testing a new feature that will allow users to reset the algorithmic suggestions that power the app’s feed, Reels and Explore section.The company described the feature as a “test,” but said the update “will soon roll out globally.” With the change, users will be able to “reset suggested content” from the content preferences section in Instagram’s settings. This will, according to Meta, allow you to “start fresh” and provide an…
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Meta is testing custom feeds for Threads
17 Nov

Meta is testing custom feeds for Threads

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As the competition between Bluesky and Threads heats up, Meta is adding a new feature to Threads that will likely look familiar to Bluesky users: custom feeds. The Meta-owned service is starting to test a feature that allows users to pin topic-based feeds to the home screen of the app.The change will give people additional feeds beyond the algorithmic “for you,” which will remain the default view, and their “following feed.” Users can add custom feeds by searching a keyword like “skincare” and then tapping the “...” menu and selecting “create new feed.” These feeds can be further customized by…
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WhatsApp finally has a drafts feature
17 Nov

WhatsApp finally has a drafts feature

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WhatsApp, the most popular messaging platform on the planet, finally has a drafts feature. Why did it take until the tail-end of 2024 to institute a seemingly simple tool that has been available for rival platforms for years? Who knows, but it’s here now.The appropriately-named Message Drafts offers “a new and easy way to find your unfinished messages on WhatsApp.” Just look for the “Draft” indicator at the beginning of a message. The platform says that these unfinished messages will move to the top of the chats list so “people can quickly locate them.”It’s a drafts feature, so there really…
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Meta Lobbyist Turned Regulator Says Europe’s Big Tech Rules Have Gone Too Far
15 Nov

Meta Lobbyist Turned Regulator Says Europe’s Big Tech Rules Have Gone Too Far

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According to Salla, Big Tech rules should be left to the new administration entering the White House. “Big Tech should be regulated by their home continent … That needs to be done in the US first and foremost.”President-elect Donald Trump has been vague about how he would regulate Big Tech, suggesting “something” should be done about Google but implied breaking the company apart may go too far.Salla’s critics are troubled by the way her arguments overlap with Meta’s. Bram Vranken, a researcher at Corporate Observatory Europe, a charity that tracks lobbying, points to an open letter, signed by 49 industry…
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Bees reportedly stopped Meta from building a nuclear-powered AI data center
05 Nov

Bees reportedly stopped Meta from building a nuclear-powered AI data center

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Meta had plans to build an AI data center in the US that relies on nuclear power — it even already knew where it wanted the facility to be built. According to the Financial Times, though, the company had to scrap its plans, because the a rare bee species was discovered on the land reserved for the project. Company chief Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly ready to close a deal with an existing nuclear power plant operator that would provide emissions-free energy to the plant. The Times said he told staff members at an all-hands last week that pushing through wouldn't…
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Meta opens its Llama AI models to government agencies for national security
05 Nov

Meta opens its Llama AI models to government agencies for national security

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Meta is opening up its Llama AI models to government agencies and contractors working on national security, the company said in . The group includes more than a dozen private sector companies that partner with the US government, including Amazon Web Services, Oracle and Microsoft, as well as defense contractors like Palantir and Lockheed Martin.Mark Zuckerberg hinted at the move last week during Meta’s earnings call, when the company was “working with the public sector to adopt Llama across the US government.” Now, Meta is offering more details about the extent of that work.Oracle, for example, is “building on Llama…
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Meta’s Orion prototype offers a glimpse into our AR future
03 Nov

Meta’s Orion prototype offers a glimpse into our AR future

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If you’re excited, or even just a little curious, about the future of augmented reality, Meta’s Orion prototype makes the most compelling case yet for the technology.For Meta, Orion is about more than finally making AR glasses a reality. It’s also the company’s best shot at becoming less dependent on Apple and Google’s app stores, and the rules that come with them. If Orion succeeds, then maybe we won’t need smartphones for much at all. Glasses, Zuckerberg , might eventually become “the main way we do computing.”At the moment, it’s still way too early to know if Zuckerberg’s bet will…
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Instagram reorganizes message requests for creators
02 Nov

Instagram reorganizes message requests for creators

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A new update for Instagram posted earlier today could fix one of the most frustrating problems for creators. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced a new filtering update on Instagram for creators’ inboxes.Instagram users with a creator-designated account can now filter message requests in their inbox based on its sender in a similar way to Gmail’s labels. Creators can still sort their messages by the most “recent” received and by the “number of followers" but they can now filter out certain messages. The new filters include requests and messages from “verified accounts,” “businesses,” “creators” and “subscribers.”The update also includes…
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