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Elon Musk's X To Deploy AI To Write Community Notes, Speed Up Fact-Checking
Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network's fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people.
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Meta Superintelligence Labs: Zuckerberg Announces New Group For AI Projects
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced a major restructuring of the company's artificial intelligence group, including a commitment to developing AI "superintelligence,".
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TikTok Pushes Deeper Into AI-Generated Video Ads With New Tools
TikTok is rolling out a set of new AI advertising features. With these, marketers will be able to upload an image of a product they want to feature, or write a short text prompt and TikTok’s AI tools will produce various five-second clips that can then be used in an ad.
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Meta’s Future Lies With Judge as FTC Antitrust Trial Ends
Meta's fate against the FTC's antitrust case is now up to a federal judge to decide whether the company should be broken up. If Judge Boasberg sides with the FTC and finds the company illegally monopolised that market, it’s possible Meta could be forced to spin off Instagram, WhatsApp, or both.
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WhatsApp Had No Plans to Compete With Facebook, Co-Founder Says
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that the messaging app had no plans to compete with Facebook. Acton was present at a federal courthouse in Washington to testify in the ongoing US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against Meta Platforms.
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WhatsApp Had No Plans To Compete With Facebook: Co-Founder Brian Acton
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete with Facebook before he sold the company to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Meta Faces FTC Trial With Instagram, WhatsApp Breakup at Risk
The US Federal Trade Commission is targeting Meta's deals for Instagram and WhatsApp in a landmark antitrust lawsuit set to go to trial Monday, alleging that the acquisitions were illegal, should never have been approved and should be broken up.
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ByteDance Confirms US Talks on TikTok After Trump Gives 75-Day Extension for Deal to Save App
ByteDance confirmed it’s in discussions with the US government about plans to keep TikTok running in the US. For the second time now, US President Donald Trump extended a deadline for the Chinese company to divest the app’s American operations. The latest extension permits the president to give a “one-time extension of not more than 90 days.
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Meta Starts Eliminating Jobs in Shift to Find AI Talent
Meta has started notifying “low-performers” that they are being laid off. The company is scouring for new talent to dominate the AI race. The company is offering US-based employees severance packages that include 16 weeks of salary, in addition two weeks for each year of service.
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta to Spend Up to $65 Billion on AI in 2025
Mark Zuckerberg plans to invest as much as $65 billion (roughly Rs. 5,61,908 crore) on projects related to artificial intelligence in 2025. Zuckerberg’s announcement comes days after OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. announced a $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,64,404 crore) joint venture called Stargate to build out data centers and A...
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Meta Opens Its AI Models To US Defence Agencies And Contractors
The Facebook-parent company is making its large language models, called Llama, available to more than a dozen US agencies and contractors.
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Microsoft Hires Meta's Former Engineering Head Jay Parikh
Microsoft Corp, which is struggling to bring data centers online fast enough to meet the demand for its artificial intelligence products, hired one of the engineering chiefs who kept Facebook's infrastructure humming.
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Meta Warns of Worsening AI Losses After Sales Narrowly Beat
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will ramp up heavy investments in AI and other futuristic technologies. The Meta executive has warned investors that the firm will continue to spend significantly on infrastructure and other projects like the metaverse and AI-powered glasses.
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Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk
Meta has removed several accounts across Threads and Instagram that were used to track celebrities’ private jets. The accounts, which rely on publicly available information to track a jet’s location and CO2 emissions, among other details, were banned without warning this week after Meta updated its privacy policy.
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Elon Musk's X Sued for $20 Million in Shares by Ex-Twitter Chairman
A former Twitter chairman has sued Elon Musk's X platform for $20 million in shares, after the billionaire allegedly refused to pay the ex-executive's compensation. Earlier this year, former Twitter executives previously sued Elon Musk for allegedly withholding more than $128 million in severance payments after they were ousted.
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Elon Musk's X To Deploy AI To Write Community Notes, Speed Up Fact-Checking
Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network's fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people.
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Meta Superintelligence Labs: Zuckerberg Announces New Group For AI Projects
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced a major restructuring of the company's artificial intelligence group, including a commitment to developing AI "superintelligence,".
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TikTok Pushes Deeper Into AI-Generated Video Ads With New Tools
TikTok is rolling out a set of new AI advertising features. With these, marketers will be able to upload an image of a product they want to feature, or write a short text prompt and TikTok’s AI tools will produce various five-second clips that can then be used in an ad.
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Meta’s Future Lies With Judge as FTC Antitrust Trial Ends
Meta's fate against the FTC's antitrust case is now up to a federal judge to decide whether the company should be broken up. If Judge Boasberg sides with the FTC and finds the company illegally monopolised that market, it’s possible Meta could be forced to spin off Instagram, WhatsApp, or both.
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WhatsApp Had No Plans to Compete With Facebook, Co-Founder Says
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that the messaging app had no plans to compete with Facebook. Acton was present at a federal courthouse in Washington to testify in the ongoing US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against Meta Platforms.
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WhatsApp Had No Plans To Compete With Facebook: Co-Founder Brian Acton
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete with Facebook before he sold the company to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Meta Faces FTC Trial With Instagram, WhatsApp Breakup at Risk
The US Federal Trade Commission is targeting Meta's deals for Instagram and WhatsApp in a landmark antitrust lawsuit set to go to trial Monday, alleging that the acquisitions were illegal, should never have been approved and should be broken up.
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ByteDance Confirms US Talks on TikTok After Trump Gives 75-Day Extension for Deal to Save App
ByteDance confirmed it’s in discussions with the US government about plans to keep TikTok running in the US. For the second time now, US President Donald Trump extended a deadline for the Chinese company to divest the app’s American operations. The latest extension permits the president to give a “one-time extension of not more than 90 days.
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Meta Starts Eliminating Jobs in Shift to Find AI Talent
Meta has started notifying “low-performers” that they are being laid off. The company is scouring for new talent to dominate the AI race. The company is offering US-based employees severance packages that include 16 weeks of salary, in addition two weeks for each year of service.
-
Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta to Spend Up to $65 Billion on AI in 2025
Mark Zuckerberg plans to invest as much as $65 billion (roughly Rs. 5,61,908 crore) on projects related to artificial intelligence in 2025. Zuckerberg’s announcement comes days after OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. announced a $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,64,404 crore) joint venture called Stargate to build out data centers and A...
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Meta Opens Its AI Models To US Defence Agencies And Contractors
The Facebook-parent company is making its large language models, called Llama, available to more than a dozen US agencies and contractors.
-
Microsoft Hires Meta's Former Engineering Head Jay Parikh
Microsoft Corp, which is struggling to bring data centers online fast enough to meet the demand for its artificial intelligence products, hired one of the engineering chiefs who kept Facebook's infrastructure humming.
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Meta Warns of Worsening AI Losses After Sales Narrowly Beat
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will ramp up heavy investments in AI and other futuristic technologies. The Meta executive has warned investors that the firm will continue to spend significantly on infrastructure and other projects like the metaverse and AI-powered glasses.
-
Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk
Meta has removed several accounts across Threads and Instagram that were used to track celebrities’ private jets. The accounts, which rely on publicly available information to track a jet’s location and CO2 emissions, among other details, were banned without warning this week after Meta updated its privacy policy.
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Elon Musk's X Sued for $20 Million in Shares by Ex-Twitter Chairman
A former Twitter chairman has sued Elon Musk's X platform for $20 million in shares, after the billionaire allegedly refused to pay the ex-executive's compensation. Earlier this year, former Twitter executives previously sued Elon Musk for allegedly withholding more than $128 million in severance payments after they were ousted.
