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Meta to Introduce Paid Third-Party AI Chatbot Integrations on WhatsApp After EU Intervention
Meta, on Wednesday, changed its policy to allow third-party artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on WhatsApp in select regions. The updated policy was specified following objections from the European Union (EU), which found the older policy in breach of its competition rules. However, while the social media giant has agreed to open WhatsApp to riv...
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European Union Hits Meta With Antitrust Probe Over Use Of AI In WhatsApp
The EU said Thursday it had opened an antitrust probe to determine if the way Meta is rolling out AI features in WhatsApp breaches the bloc's competition rules.
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Meta To Ban Political Advertisements In EU From October, Cites Legal Issues
Meta Platforms will end political, electoral, social issue advertising on its platform in the European Union in early October because of the legal uncertainties due to EU rules targeting political advertising, the US social media company said.
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Meta Says It Won't Sign EU’s GPAI Code of Practice Due to ‘Legal Uncertainties’
Meta announced that it won't sign the European Union’s (EU) Code of Practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models last week. Earlier this month, the European Commission said that it has received the final version of GPAI Code of Practice, a voluntary tool aimed at helping the industry comply with the AI Act’s rules, whose f...
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Meta Reportedly Planning to Replace Human Reviewers With AI for Risk Assessment
Meta is reportedly planning to shift a large portion of risk assessments for its products and features to artificial intelligence (AI). As per the report, the Menlo Park-based social media giant is considering letting AI handle the approvals of its features and product updates, which were so far exclusively handled by human evaluators.
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Meta AI Finally Rolling Out in Europe, to Offer Limited Features at First
Meta AI is finally rolling out in European countries. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot will be available to users in the European Union (EU) nearly 1.5 years after it was first launched. This comes nearly eight months after the Menlo Park-based tech giant stated that the rollout of its AI services in the region will be delayed d...
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Meta, TikTok, X To Join European Union Stress Test For German Election
The European Commission will hold a stress test with large social media platforms next week to see whether they have done enough to counter disinformation in the run-up to next month's German election, an EU spokesperson said on Friday.
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EU Said to Reassess Tech Probes into Apple, Google, Meta
The European Commission is reevaluating its probes into tech giants. Apple, Meta, and Google are among tech giants that have urged US President-elect Trump to challenge European Union's regulatory scrutiny against them.
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Meta Fined $253 Million Over Facebook Hacks By Ireland
An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Tuesday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw Facebook accounts hacked.
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EU Privacy Regulator Fines Meta EUR 91 Million Over Password Storage
Meta has been fined EUR 91 million by the lead European Union's privacy regulator for storing some users' passwords without protection or encryption. The company says it took immediate action to fix the error after identifying it during a security review in 2019, and that there is no evidence the passwords were abused or accessed improperly.
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Meta to Introduce Paid Third-Party AI Chatbot Integrations on WhatsApp After EU Intervention
Meta, on Wednesday, changed its policy to allow third-party artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on WhatsApp in select regions. The updated policy was specified following objections from the European Union (EU), which found the older policy in breach of its competition rules. However, while the social media giant has agreed to open WhatsApp to riv...
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European Union Hits Meta With Antitrust Probe Over Use Of AI In WhatsApp
The EU said Thursday it had opened an antitrust probe to determine if the way Meta is rolling out AI features in WhatsApp breaches the bloc's competition rules.
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Meta To Ban Political Advertisements In EU From October, Cites Legal Issues
Meta Platforms will end political, electoral, social issue advertising on its platform in the European Union in early October because of the legal uncertainties due to EU rules targeting political advertising, the US social media company said.
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Meta Says It Won't Sign EU’s GPAI Code of Practice Due to ‘Legal Uncertainties’
Meta announced that it won't sign the European Union’s (EU) Code of Practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models last week. Earlier this month, the European Commission said that it has received the final version of GPAI Code of Practice, a voluntary tool aimed at helping the industry comply with the AI Act’s rules, whose f...
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Meta Reportedly Planning to Replace Human Reviewers With AI for Risk Assessment
Meta is reportedly planning to shift a large portion of risk assessments for its products and features to artificial intelligence (AI). As per the report, the Menlo Park-based social media giant is considering letting AI handle the approvals of its features and product updates, which were so far exclusively handled by human evaluators.
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Meta AI Finally Rolling Out in Europe, to Offer Limited Features at First
Meta AI is finally rolling out in European countries. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot will be available to users in the European Union (EU) nearly 1.5 years after it was first launched. This comes nearly eight months after the Menlo Park-based tech giant stated that the rollout of its AI services in the region will be delayed d...
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Meta, TikTok, X To Join European Union Stress Test For German Election
The European Commission will hold a stress test with large social media platforms next week to see whether they have done enough to counter disinformation in the run-up to next month's German election, an EU spokesperson said on Friday.
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EU Said to Reassess Tech Probes into Apple, Google, Meta
The European Commission is reevaluating its probes into tech giants. Apple, Meta, and Google are among tech giants that have urged US President-elect Trump to challenge European Union's regulatory scrutiny against them.
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Meta Fined $253 Million Over Facebook Hacks By Ireland
An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Tuesday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw Facebook accounts hacked.
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EU Privacy Regulator Fines Meta EUR 91 Million Over Password Storage
Meta has been fined EUR 91 million by the lead European Union's privacy regulator for storing some users' passwords without protection or encryption. The company says it took immediate action to fix the error after identifying it during a security review in 2019, and that there is no evidence the passwords were abused or accessed improperly.
