A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company violated the states unfair practices act.

A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children.

Taalas' current chip runs a small version of Meta's Llama 3.1, though the company is working on chips for bigger and more advanced models.

Meta, perhaps feeling left out, confirmed that one of its AI models has also been acting naughty.

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta is the latest major AI developer to admit that its models broke loose during cybersecurity testing and hacked external systems

A flood of companies are revealing AI models gained access to the internet - with real consequences.

Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI have all had incidents of AI models hacking other companies during cybersecurity testing.

Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models hacked into a third-party service during a cybersecurity evaluation after a misconfiguration gave it access to the open internet

Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to

Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'

Those looking to dabble in AI-assisted coding already have a lot of options when it comes to tools and agents, such as Anthropics Claude Code and OpenAIs Codex. Now, Meta is throwing its hat into the ring with its first AI coding agent

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As EU regulators consider smart glasses restrictions, here are the countries with intelligent eyewear bans.

Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops

The terminal-based coding tool is powered by a new AI model, Muse Spark 1.2.

Meta released its first coding agent called Muse Code as the company ramps up its investments in AI models and services to try and take on Anthropic and OpenAI.

Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that's positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex

A one-line command in your macOS terminal can get you access to Meta's Muse Code, which aims to be a transparent AI coding tool that can work across large repositories

Researchers identified more than 50 ads on Meta properties that violated the company's policies on child sexual abuse material.

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Metas ad library data

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AdGuard VPN has just released a dedicated Meta Quest app, bringing full-device encryption to VR headsets

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So were asking you: are you using smart glasses in your day-to-day? The least obtrusive and most popular ones are AI glasses. The Ray-Ban Meta lineup is the best example

The AI gamble sweeping up American fortunes is led by tech companies splurging on hulking data centers packed with computer chips and equipment needed to develop sophisticated AI models and deliver them to customers. In investor calls in the past week, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon pointed to soaring AI-related sales and business deals

The Social Media Victims Law Center accused the companies of creating addictive and dangerous platforms.

Meta redesigned its storage architecture with SSD caching and faster metadata access, dramatically reducing AI loading times while improving GPU utilisation.

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget.

Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla all reported negative cash flow in the latest quarter, while Meta's cash generation plummeted by 91%.

Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have collectively spent more than $1 trillion on AI investments since the rush started in 2023

Meta's smart glasses are supposed to alert bystanders when they're recording

Following a three-year investigation, the FTC has sued telehealth giant Hims & Hers for consumer privacy violations.

Microsoft posted strong Azure and Copilot growth, while Meta missed revenue guidance forecasts as free cash flow plunged leading to diverging stock moves.

Amazon Web Services announced new business with Meta and OpenAI in the quarter.

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges

For investors anxious to hear more about Meta's plans to make money from its big AI spending, Mark Zuckerberg said there's a trade-off.

Meta Platforms has strengthened its influence on India as Gen Z protesters widely relied on Instagram to raise their concerns against the Modi government.

Meta issued a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast and narrowed its capex range for the year.

Nikkei Asia claims five technology giants hold $1.65 trillion in hidden obligations, fueling Enron comparisons and increasing investor concern worldwide.

Mark Zuckerberg said Meta intends to sell for the first time AI tools to other companies

Apple may need to overcome public distrust of smart glasses before its rumored WWDC 2027 debut.

Meta's Reality Labs unit, which develops virtual reality and wearable devices, continues losing money.

A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta have signed the letter.

Alphabet's free cash flow has turned negative, and the company lifted its capital spending forecast

As it apparently expands reliance on fossil fuels, Meta has parted company with the RE100 initiative.

DEF CON has banned "Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities," with no exceptions being made even for those with prescription versions

More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses

The tech industry is still reeling from the recent Hugging Face incident, where an autonomous, rogue OpenAI model escaped its testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face's systems

Meta mula menawarkan sokongan Meta AI di Threads beberapa bulan lalu dan menerima maklum balas bahawa tidak semua pengguna berasa selesa berkomunikasi dengan AI secara terbuka

Meta has temporarily backtracked on its proposal of rate limiting the use of conversation focus in its smart glasses.

European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU's Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands

Apple's privacy promises will be tested with its smart glasses.

Meta recently introduced their new Facebook Verified badge for free which according to them, is designed to identify real people on Meta platforms

Meta recently announced their new Seller app designed for sellers who sell on Facebook Marketplace

Pelbagai pengeluar kini berlumba dalam memperkenalkan cermin mata pintar mereka tersendiri, sekaligus bersaing dalam mendapatkan pegangan pasaran untuk era baharu peranti yang kini didominasi oleh Meta

The eventual launch of Apple Glass is still expected in 2027, but based on how people distrust Meta's smart glasses, Apple may have a challenge ahead of it

CNBC reports: Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain "AI-generated people" after New York recently passed a law mandating greater transparency around "synthetic performers" in ads... The policy directs sellers to tag images [and videos or other graphics on listing pages] with specific metadata keywords before they're uploaded

A company spokesperson said that it's "still exploring all our options for the best approach."

That's what Facebook Verified is for: keeping the moments that matter on Facebook grounded in real people." Lifehacker shares their reaction: Facebook says it will store your selfie video for "up to 30 days" after verification, which is a one-time process. It's not entirely clear what happens with that video in the meantime, and it's worth noting that Meta has relied on user data to train its AI

With China's open-weight AI models continuing to improve, US companies want to see a free market for all.

Instagram is banning videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that harass strangers in public, including prank videos targeting service workers and pickup-artist clips of women who may not realize they are being recorded

The company has comitted to 10 natural gas plants since last year.

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

Today Meta is launching Facebook Verified

The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."

Google, Amazon and Meta are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward on companies they lend to.

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, than 20 other tech companies signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose "premature restrictions" on open-weight AI models, warning that broad limits could "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." CNBC reports: They wrote that open-weight models strengthen competition and ensure that the benefits of the technology are "broadly shared rather than concentrated in a few hands." "Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe: they can be breached, misused, or fail in ways that outsiders cannot detect," the letter said

Trump on Truth Social railed against the European Union's new fine on Google and prior penalties against U.S. tech giants Apple, Meta and Amazon.

Chinese open-weight models aregaining steamagainst leading offerings from American companies

Facebook has launched a new app specifically to help Facebook Marketplace sellers manage their business and sales.

Meta has announced Facebook Verified, a free badge that will be visible on a user's profile and is designed to confirm whether that user is a real person or an AI without actually checking that a user is who they say they are

Facebook has introduced an app called Seller that effectively professionalizes Facebook Marketplace.

A report from Business Insider recently highlighted that Instagram is taking down videos taken without consent using Meta Glasses

EU law gives researchers unprecedented rights to scrutinize social media data. Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta impede their attempts to look inside.