Meta’s Reality Labs Posts $4.5 Billion Loss In Second Quarter
Meta’s ambitious plans to develop the metaverse is still costing the company billions of dollars a quarter, CNBC reported.
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Meta To Pay $1.4 Billion To Settle Texas Facial Recognition Data Lawsuit
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent, Reuters reported.
Apple Releases First Preview Of Its Long-Awaited iPhone AI
Apple on Monday released the first version of Apple Intelligence, its suite of artificial intelligence features that will improve Siri, automatically generate emails and images, and sort notifications, CNBC reported. The new software called Apple Intelligence was released in the developer beta of iOS 18.1. It is also available in similar releases for iPad and Mac. It is currently only
Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, Violating X’s Policies
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has waded into one of the thorniest issues facing U.S. politics: deepfake videos, The New York Times reported. On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris that appears to have been digitally manipulated to change the spot’s voice-over
Irish Watchdog ‘Surprised’ Over X Move On User Data
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has expressed “surprise” over social media company X’s decision to use user posts to train an AI chatbot, The Independent reported. Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, expressed outrage after discovering that the company had enabled a system where their posts could be used to train its Grok AI chatbot. Grok, which is
Elon Musk Is Secretly Training Grok On Your X Data By Default
Earlier this week, Billionaire Elon Musk took to his X (formerly Twitter) platform to announce that his xAI company has started training it’s Grok LLM using “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.” Musk indicated the AI model would be “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric by December this year.” Window’s Central reported. But as it
SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against Major Video Game Studios
For close to two years, SAG-AFTRA has been in talks with major video game companies on a new contract agreement that would cover voice and performance capture workers on titles from Disney Character Voices, Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros.Games, Insomniac Games, and more, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Now, at an impasse over artificial intelligence concerns, the union’s chief