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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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Zuckerberg "Not Planning" To Endorse Biden Or Trump In US Presidential Polls
Mark Zuckerberg said that former President Donald Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was "badass" and inspiring, and helps explain his appeal to voters.
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Mark Zuckerberg Creates Council Of Executives To Advise Meta On AI Products
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has created a new product advisory council - a group that will meet periodically with Meta's management team and offer guidance on the company's artificial intelligence.
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Elon Musk-Owned X to Summarise News Events Within App Using Grok AI
X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, will start summarizing news events inside the app by using xAI’s chatbot, Grok. The AI-generated summaries will rely on user tweets — not third-party news articles — and will only be available to premium subscribers, the company announced on Friday.
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Elon Musk Reverses Course, Gives Away Some Blue Checkmarks For Free
X owner Elon Musk is giving away free premium features - including the once-coveted blue verification checkmarks - to some of the social network's most popular users.
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Elon Musk's X Is Testing "Adult Content" Communities For Users
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material.
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Meta To Cut 10,000 Jobs, Slash 5,000 More Vacant Positions
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to lay off around 10,000 employees and close about 5,000 additional open roles in its second major round of job cuts in the past six months.
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Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT, Google's LaMDA
Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The technology has become popular, and controversial, in recent months as more companies have started to build them and ...
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Meta Said to Ask Managers, Directors to Return to Making Things or Leave in Efficiency Push
Meta is said to have asked many of its managers and directors to transition to individual contributor jobs or leave the Facebook parent firm. The company reduced its workforce by 13 percent last November, during its first major layoffs.
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Elon Musk's New Headache: Severance Pay For Laid Off Twitter Workers
Twitter Inc. employees who were laid off shortly after Elon Musk took over are still awaiting details of their severance packages months after being let go, leading to further legal trouble for the new owner.
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Twitter Files: Elon Musk's Twitter Leak Raises Concern Over External Access to User Data
Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" leaks have provided outside writers unprecedented access to Twitter information, raising concern about external access to Twitter data and user accounts. Twitter's new CEO handed a collection of internal documents and emails from former Twitter employees over to external writers, who are now publishing those documents on...
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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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Zuckerberg "Not Planning" To Endorse Biden Or Trump In US Presidential Polls
Mark Zuckerberg said that former President Donald Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was "badass" and inspiring, and helps explain his appeal to voters.
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Mark Zuckerberg Creates Council Of Executives To Advise Meta On AI Products
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has created a new product advisory council - a group that will meet periodically with Meta's management team and offer guidance on the company's artificial intelligence.
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Elon Musk-Owned X to Summarise News Events Within App Using Grok AI
X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, will start summarizing news events inside the app by using xAI’s chatbot, Grok. The AI-generated summaries will rely on user tweets — not third-party news articles — and will only be available to premium subscribers, the company announced on Friday.
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Elon Musk Reverses Course, Gives Away Some Blue Checkmarks For Free
X owner Elon Musk is giving away free premium features - including the once-coveted blue verification checkmarks - to some of the social network's most popular users.
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Elon Musk's X Is Testing "Adult Content" Communities For Users
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material.
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Meta To Cut 10,000 Jobs, Slash 5,000 More Vacant Positions
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to lay off around 10,000 employees and close about 5,000 additional open roles in its second major round of job cuts in the past six months.
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Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT, Google's LaMDA
Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The technology has become popular, and controversial, in recent months as more companies have started to build them and ...
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Meta Said to Ask Managers, Directors to Return to Making Things or Leave in Efficiency Push
Meta is said to have asked many of its managers and directors to transition to individual contributor jobs or leave the Facebook parent firm. The company reduced its workforce by 13 percent last November, during its first major layoffs.
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Elon Musk's New Headache: Severance Pay For Laid Off Twitter Workers
Twitter Inc. employees who were laid off shortly after Elon Musk took over are still awaiting details of their severance packages months after being let go, leading to further legal trouble for the new owner.
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Twitter Files: Elon Musk's Twitter Leak Raises Concern Over External Access to User Data
Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" leaks have provided outside writers unprecedented access to Twitter information, raising concern about external access to Twitter data and user accounts. Twitter's new CEO handed a collection of internal documents and emails from former Twitter employees over to external writers, who are now publishing those documents on...
