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Meta launches AI research community to address pressing challenges in AI
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has launched a new organisation, the Open Innovation AI Research Community for academic researchers, designed to foster transparency, innovation, and collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence…
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‘Twitter killer’ Meta Threads now under govt lens in US
San Francisco: Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads is now under investigation by the US House Judiciary which has reportedly asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hand over documents about content moderation on the…
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Meta bringing more Reels editing tools on FB Feed
San Francisco: Meta has announced that it is rolling out updates that will bring more Reels editing tools to Facebook Feed, making it easier for users to create dynamic videos on the…
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Meta banned from running behavioural advertising on Facebook, Instagram
London: Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta has been banned from carrying out behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway, unless the company obtains users’ consent.…
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Daily use on Meta Threads drops by 50% amid new sign-up surge
New Delhi: As Meta’s Threads crosses 150 million sign-ups, the so-called Twitter killer’s daily use has gone down miserably, with time spent by users now down by 50 per cent from 20…
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Zuckerberg really burning midnight oil: Musk
San Francisco: Twitter-owner Elon Musk on Monday said that Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “really burning” the “midnight oil.” When a user tweeted, “BREAKING: After forgetting about his app for…
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Meta introduces generative AI model ‘CM3leon’ for text, images
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has introduced a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model — “CM3leon” (pronounced like chameleon), that does both text-to-image and image-to-text generation. “CM3leon is the first multimodal model trained…
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Meta blocks EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN
London: Meta (formerly Facebook) has confirmed that it is blocking EU-based users from using the newly-launched Instagram’s Threads app via VPN (Virtual Private Network). After several users complained about being unable to…
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Meta to train speech recognition engines on ‘clusters’ of speakers using new dataset
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has developed a new dataset which the company will use to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) tools by clustering speech at the “utterance level”.…
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Meta to release commercial generative AI model
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly planning to release a commercial version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model in order to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI experiment Bard,…
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Indian-origin techie accuses Meta of anti-Asian bias, files lawsuit
New York: An Indian-origin tech executive from Singapore has filed a lawsuit with the California’s Civil Rights Department accusing Meta of racial discrimination that cost her promotions and work opportunities. Vaishnavi Jayakumar,…
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Metaverse hype is dead, admits Meta’s Indian-origin executive Vishal Shah
San Francisco: Meta’s Indian-origin executive Vishan Shah, who oversees Meta’s metaverse project, has claimed that the “hype” around the metaverse is dead. He said that the metaverse was part of a “hype…
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Meta introduces real-time avatar calls for Instagram, Messenger
San Francisco: Meta has announced that it is rolling out real-time avatar calls on Instagram and Messenger. This feature will be helpful when users don’t want to show their real faces during…
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Apple’s Phil Schiller, Google arrive on Meta’s Threads
San Francisco: Apple fellow Phil Schiller, responsible for leading the App Store and Apple events, as well as Google and YoutTube have joined Threads. A Threads account with username ‘PhilSchiller007’ and no…
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Meta’s Threads is surging, but mass migration from Twitter is likely to remain an uphill battle
Article by Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder(US): Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a…
