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Meta approved 14 AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election with known slurs against Muslims; civil groups submitted and then pulled the ads as a test (Hannah Ellis-Petersen/The Guardian)

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Meta approved 14 AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election with known slurs against Muslims; civil groups submitted and then pulled the ads as a test — Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by…

Leaked Meta Quest 3s looks like a Quest 2 with a new brain and eyeballs

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A new Quest 3 Lite leak gives us a better idea of what to expect from Meta's 2024 headset, including performance, comfort, software, and passthrough.

LG denies reports over canceling its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it is "controlling its pace" (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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LG denies reports over canceling its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it is “controlling its pace” — LG denied reports from Korean news outlets claiming it canceled its partnership…

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Meta Monday: A late call that kept momentum on MOUZ's side

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Relive a standout moment from the match between MOUZ and Spirit during the BetBoom Dacha Belgrade grand final with siuhy's commentary.

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Meta And LG Slow Down XR Collaboration As LG Considers Amazon Partnership: Report

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LG reportedly pauses its XR partnership with Meta, originally set to rival Apple's Vision Pro. LG denies ending the deal, targets a 2027 release.

Meta Joins AI Safety Collective To Ensure Responsible Development

The group will look to establish key best practices and guidelines to ensure safer AI development.

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Meta’s Oversight Board takes its first Threads case

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Meta's Oversight Board has now extended its scope to include the company's newest platform, Instagram Threads, and has begun hearing cases from Threads.

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They Want Your Kids: Google, Meta Lead Massive Tech Lobbying Against New York's Child Online Safety Bills

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Google, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, and other tech giants are engaged in a fierce lobbying battle against two New York bills aimed at protecting children online, with spending expected to surpass $1 million.

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Google, Meta warned that undersea internet cables at risk for Chinese espionage: report

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The concerns are reportedly centered on underwater fiber-optic cables in the Pacific Ocean that are partially owned by the Big Tech firms and used to maintain the flow of data from the US to Asia.

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Political ads approved by Meta in India inciting violence: Report

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Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, approved a series of AI-manipulated political advertisements during the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections in India to spread disinformation and incite religious violence, The Guardian reported…

Meta’s Ad Approval Process Fails to Block Violent Content, Disinformation in India

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, allowed AI-manipulated political advertising during India's election, which spread misinformation and incited religious violence, a report reveals.

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Meta and LG’s headset partnership is on the rocks

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LG CEO William Cho and home entertainment company president Park Hyoung-sei met with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in February to discuss the collaboration. | Image: LG

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Facebook's Early Employee Shares Experience Of Working With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: 'Hire Fast, Fire Faster'

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One of Facebook's early employees shared insights into Mark Zuckerberg's management style, revealing the CEO's stringent approach to talent management.

Meta, Google leading nearly $1M lobbying fight to kill NY online child safety bills

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“This is an astonishing amount of money to be spent to kill two reasonable bills,” said one longtime Albany insider who requested anonymity to discuss the lobbying push.

Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence

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Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups

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Regardless of Us review – mesmerising meta debut is study of identity and performance

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This impressive first feature from director Yoo Heong-jun is a visually and formally inventive exploration of malleable aspects of ourselves

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Unmasking Meta AI's Chatbot Blunder: Delving into Concerns Surrounding Integrity in the Mainstream

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In a recent investigative inquiry, Meta AI, emerging as a formidable competitor to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, was scrutinized.

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Behind Zuckerberg's contrarian strategy to give away Meta's artificial-intelligence technology is a bet that making Silicon

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Behind Zuckerberg’s contrarian strategy to give away Meta’s artificial-intelligence technology is a bet that making Silicon Valley’s hottest new offering free will drive down competitors’ prices and spread Meta’s version more broadly.

Sunday, May 19

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Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI (Financial Times)

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Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI — Microsoft, Meta and Google have released new versions with fewer…

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Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships — Google, Meta Platforms and others partially own many cables, but they rely on…