Zoom’s new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR
Zoom's new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR Zoom’s new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR Zoom has rolled out a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets. With the app, you can join or host meetings in virtual reality while appearing as your Meta Avatar. Zoom launched an app […]
Threads now has DMs
Threads now has DMs Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone. You can now privately message other users on the Meta-owned X rival, though Threads will only allow DMs between your followers or mutual followers on Instagram to start. You can send a DM on Threads by selecting the envelope icon in the toolbar […]
Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-group
Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI 'superintelligence' super-group Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-group In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s new “Meta Superintelligence Labs” group that will head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports. Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as part of a multibillion dollar […]
Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically
Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically In the past week, big AI companies have – in theory – chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem, and copyright law hasn’t been this exciting since last month’s showdown at the Library of Congress. First, […]
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos For years, Meta’s trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. But apparently, Meta has decided to try training its AI on the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. On […]
What Meta and Anthropic really won in court
What Meta and Anthropic really won in court A lot of the future of AI will be settled in court. From publishers to authors to artists to Hollywood conglomerates, the creative industry is picking a big copyright fight over the vast quantities of data used to train AI models – and the ultimate output of […]
Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI
Meta says it's winning the talent war with OpenAI Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the “$100 million signing bonuses” that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed they had been offering to poach his employees. “Sam is just […]
WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages
WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages WhatsApp can now call on Meta AI to summarize your personal chats. As shown in a GIF, you can access it by tapping the button to unfurl all of your unread messages in a chat. But instead of showing your messages, WhatsApp uses Meta AI to generate […]
Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence
Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the […]
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses Meta is announcing its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley. The limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced HOW-stuhn) model costs $499 and is available for pre-order starting July 11th. Other Oakley models with Meta’s tech will be available starting at $399 later this summer. Like the existing Meta Ray-Ban glasses, […]