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Meta’s X Rival Gains Multiple Drafts, Audience Insights

Meta’s X rival Threads announced a number of new features today, including the ability to store multiple drafts, a way to rearrange columns on the desktop and insights into the user’s audience. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also mentioned that the company…

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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.  As part of the company’s second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which houses augmented and virtual reality technologies,…

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Mark Zuckerberg Argues That ‘Open Source AI’ Is The Path Forward

Meta posted “Expanding our open source large language models responsibly”. From the Meta blog: Takeaways: Meta is committed to openly accessible AI. Read Mark Zuckerberg’s letter detailing why open source is good for developers, good for Meta, and good for…

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EU Launches Probe Into Meta Over Social Media Addiction In Children

Brussels has opened an in-depth probe into Meta over concerns it is failing to do enough to protect children from becoming addicted to social media platforms such as Instagram, Financial Times reported. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced…

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Meta Wants To Put Students And Teachers In Quest VR Headsets

If Meta has its way, students will tour faraway museums, walk among dinosaurs and view human intestines up close — all from the comfort of their classroom, using Quest, virtual reality (VR) headsets, Axios reported. Why it matters: As educators…

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Meta Tells Small Businesses To Boost And Avoid Apple Service Charges

Meta announced “New Ways For Small Businesses To Boost And Avoid Apple Service Charges” From the announcement: Businesses with limited resources have found tremendous value in advertising through boosted posts to find new customers and have been utilizing them for…

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