Meta's additional spending commitments with CoreWeave will be deployed from 2027 to 2032.

After releasing its first major AI model in a year called Muse Spark, Meta now has to figure out how to turn it into a business

Meta is giving users the ability to edit Instagram comments they leave on posts, though only within a 15 minute window after they're posted

Meta has said its new Muse Spark AI is coming to Meta glasses, and you should expect a big boost

The companies behind AI training, such as Mercor, GlobalLogic, TEKsystems, micro1 and Alignerr, operate large contractor networks staffed by people like Ciriello. Their clients include tech giants like OpenAI, Google and Meta, academic researchers and industries including healthcare and finance

Muse Spark may be the ground-up AI overhaul Meta needs to beat OpenAI and Google.

In Seattle, activists inside tech giants are leaning into grassroots fundraising and peer support as petitions and protests draw little response from executives.

Meta on Wednesday released an artificial intelligence (AI) model, Muse Spark, it touts as smarter and faster than what it offered before shaking up its Superintelligence Labs unit.

You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them! Nearly two years after extolling the virtues of open source AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is singing a different tune.

President Donald Trump's Iran ceasefire announcement provided some relief to Wall Street and tech stocks shared in the rally.

Meta touts strong benchmarks but admits "performance gaps" in agentic and coding systems.

Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang's leadership

Meta hari ini memperkenalkan Muse Spark, model bahasa raya mereka yang pertama dibangunkan dibawah pasukan Meta Superintelligence Labs

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta announced Muse, a new family of AI models, which starts with new Spark model.

UK cybercrime authorities are investigating a Facebook breach involving a former Meta employee.

Following the icy reception to Llama 4 , Meta is releasing the first in a new family of AI systems built by its recently formed Superintelligence team

Meta has released a new version of WhatsApp for CarPlay that has much better integration that its previous version.As MacRumors and 9to5Mac report, the new app gives users access to a native interface

A former Meta employee in the UK is under investigation after allegations that he illicitly downloaded about 30,000 private photos from Facebook

The former employee was fired from Meta after being suspected of downloading 30,000 photos, the company said.

The idea is to allow users to support their favourite channels for a monthly fee, and maybe get exclusive content in return. More recently, it looks like the Meta subsidiary has begun testing the feature in earnest

The creators claimed that Apple's video scraping was used to train its generative AI products, adding that the tech giant's "massive financial success would not have been possible without the video content created" by the YouTubers. MacRumors noted that these YouTube channels have also filed similar lawsuits against other tech companies, including Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance and Snap

Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accept faulty AI reasoning a whopping 73.2 percent of the time, while only overruling it 19.7 percent of the time. The researchers say this "demonstrate[s] that people readily incorporate AI-generated outputs into their decision-making processes, often with minimal friction or skepticism." In general, "fluent, confident outputs [are treated] as epistemically authoritative, lowering the threshold for scrutiny and attenuating the meta-cognitive signals that would ordinarily route a response to deliberation," they write

Agents to check the work of the agents All Things AI AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking "Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site." And, no, adding "DON'T HALLUCINATE" to the instruction loop won't help.

It'll debut in early access on Steam later this year for $20. Puzzling Places has been a hit on PlayStation and Meta virtual reality platforms, as it has racked up 400,000 players

Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor

Internet platforms have long been able to rely on special protections to avoid liability for what takes place on their sites

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity's AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users' knowledge or consent

Everyone's four favorite anthropomorphic turtles are returning to the world of video games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City will be released on April 30 for the Meta Quest, Steam VR and Pico

Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.

Cybercriminals are impersonating top brands like Meta, Disney, and Spotify in a highly sophisticated new phishing campaign designed to hijack your Facebook account

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 Instagram is testing a pay tier that offers features including letting subscribers discre...

Semalam Meta melancarkan dua cermin mata pintar baharu mereka untuk kanta preskripsi dengan kerjasama Ray-Ban

NAIROBI, April 1 Kenya is investigating Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses over accusations of storing users data...

Perang Asia Barat sudah berlarutan lebih sebulan dengan ribuan nyawa terkorban termasuk kanak-kanak sekolah

Meta just debuted a duo of new AI glasses styles in its Ray-Ban smart specs lineup, and theyre designed for folks who have prescriptions

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran's armed forces, has threatened to target US tech companies' operations in the Middle East. It told employees of 18 companies including Apple, Google, Meta and NVIDIA to leave their workplaces immediately to save their lives, as CBS News reported

Australia is preparing possible court action against major social media platforms that are failing to enforce the country's social media ban on under-16s. "Three months after the ban came into effect, the eSafety Commissioner said it was probing Meta's Instagram and Facebook, Google's YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok for possible breaches of the law," reports Reuters

Meta has agreed to "substantially reduce its use of the PG-13 ratings system in relation to its Teen Accounts on Instagram starting April 15

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a direct strike threat to a slew of U.S. tech companies including GPU giant Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Cisco, and Tesla

Snapchat owner Snap has already bought up a bunch of Rec Room's assets and some employees will join the social media company, according to a report by GeekWire . Rec Room first appeared all the way back in 2016, years before the standalone Meta Quest entered the VR scene

Instagram might get a paid subscription service with a few intriguing features, such as the ability to secretly watch Stories.

Meta designs Ray-Ban smart glasses around prescription lenses, not as add-on

Meta melancarkan dua lagi cermin mata pintar dengan ia kali ini akhirnya direka untuk individu rabun yang memerlukan kanta preskripsi

The latest iteration of Meta's smart glasses has arrived and, as rumored, they are more customizable, particularly for people who need prescription lenses

It also mentions something called super hearts for reacting to Stories. A spokesperson for Meta confirmed the test to Engadget, saying that Instagram Plus is currently available in a few countries

Activist Lennon Torres reacts to a landmark ruling against social media giants like Meta.

Kerajaan Indonesia telah memanggil pihak Meta dan Google kerana didakwa tidak mematuhi peraturan kawalan media sosial untuk kanak-kanak

The Indonesian government has summoned Google and Meta for allegedly failing to comply with a social media ban on under-16s that went into effect last weekend

Instagram has started testing a Plus subscription service in some markets, Meta has confirmed

Regulator moving into an enforcement stance and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll Australias eSafety Commission is moving into an enforcement stance after finding that Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat havent done enough to comply with the nations social media minimum age (SMMA) obligation, which bans social media outfits from providing their services to children under 16 years of age.

Have you ever wanted your Stories to last longer, or secretly watch others' stories? Now you can if you pay

Meta kini mengesahkan mereka telah memulakan ciri langganan berbayar untuk Instagram, dinamakan Instagram Plus, di beberapa buah negara

Judge gave authors an easier attack on Metas torrenting

Meta is testing a new subscription service for Instagram that offers users "exclusive" features like the ability to post Stories for longer than 24 hours

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries

Today, all explanations stem from artificial intelligence (AI). In recent weeks, giants including Google, Amazon, Meta, as well as smaller firms such as Pinterest and Atlassian, have all announced or warned of plans to shrink their workforce, pointing to developments in AI that they say are allowing their firms to do more with fewer people

Yes, this week YouTube and Meta were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction

Meta's two courtroom defeats centered on different cases but both involved allegations that the company knew about its products' harms.

The broader tech industry has been campaigning for some time to use device-level age checks instead in response to the rising tide of under-16 social media and internet bans around the world. Last month, in a landmark social media trial in California, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also supported this idea, saying that conducting age verification "at the level of the phone is just a lot clearer than having every single app out there have to do this separately." Pornhub-operator Aylo had advocated for device-level restrictions in the UK as well, and even sent out letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft in November asking for OS-level age verification..

Two new models of Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses are on the way, and they're going to be catered towards those who use prescription lenses, according to a Bloomberg report

Meta and Entergy Louisiana agree to a deal that would have the tech giant underwrite the electricity costs of its latest, $27 billion data center.

Meta is paying for the construction of seven new natural gas plants to supply its largest data center, massively expanding the fossil fuel infrastructure underpinning its AI buildout

Experience cutting-edge VR and save up to 20% with coupons for the latest games, Meta Quest 3, Ray-Ban AI glasses, and more deals.

Menerusi kerjasama Meta dan EssilorLuxottica, cermin mata pintar Ray-Ban Meta dan Oakley Meta HSTN dilancarkan

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 (Reuters) - Meta's long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and enforcement of Facebook's content policies and had a role in the company's approach to user safety issues, is leaving the company for a job at Harvard Law School

The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.

Meta's twin legal defeats this week and a big sell-off in Micron spurred a drop in technology stocks, which were broadly hit by rising oil prices

Arm introduces its first in-house AGI CPU, offering high-density performance and gaining early backing from major companies, including Meta and OpenAI

In February of that year, Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). "Looks like DOGE is making progress," the Meta CEO texted

Meta will essentially foot the power bill for the $27 billion mega data center it's building in Louisiana

Meet the engo3 smart glasses, with an AR heads-up display compatible with Apple and Garmin watches

Beijing's review has fueled concerns and confusion among Chinese tech founders and investors that had quietly embraced the so-called "Singapore-washing" model

March 27 (Reuters) - Utility Entergy said Meta Platforms will pay its full cost of service for the planned hyperscale data center in northeast Louisiana under a revised agreement

This week, Devindra and PCWorld Senior Editor Mark Hachman discuss Microsoft's surprising plan to "fix" Windows 11 by refocusing on customization and core features, instead of bringing Copilot AI into tons of apps. Is there any enthusiasm left for Windows? Or will most people be better off considering macOS or Linux? Subscribe! iTunes Spotify Pocket Casts Stitcher Google Podcasts Topic Microsoft hits the reset button on Windows 11, de-emphasizing Copilot AI 1:03 OpenAI pulls the plug on its Sora video generation app after just 5 months 25:23 Metas terrible week in court, part 1: $375 million ruling in New Mexico child engagement case 33:58 Metas terrible week in court, part 2: Meta and Google lose landmark social media addiction suit 38:49 OpenAI puts erotic chat on hold indefinitely 43:49 Update your iPhones: iOS exploit Darksword released on GitHub 46:39 Epic games lays off 1,000 workers after Fortnite engagement dips 47:48 Honda and Sony kill off their Afeela EV collaboration 49:26 Listener Mail: Which Mac Mini to get for a budding pro photographer 55:15 Pop culture picks 57:52 Credits Host: Devindra Hardawar Guest: Mark Hachman Producer: Ben Ellman Music: Dale North and Terrence OBrien This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...01592.html?src=rss

Mat Smith The other big stories (and deals) this morning Ugh, Netflix is raising prices again Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduce a bill to pause US data center construction . OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app Hades 2 is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on April 14 Meta and YouTube lose social media addiction case TikTok and Snap settled ahead of the trial

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide

In a pivotal moment that underscored how powerful and immersive social platforms can be for children and teens, a jury in California this week found both Meta and YouTube liable for mental health harms to kids using their services

Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition China appears to be unhappy about its brightest AI talent going offshore, either to visit or to sell their wares