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'He Called Me a Few Times': Donald Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Called Him to Apologize, Claims Meta's CEO 'Won't Support' Democrats

The former U.S. President claims the calls began after the attempt on Trump's life in July.

Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms — - Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks — Some terms…

Meta running ads for cocaine, opioids and other ILLEGAL DRUGS while censoring the truth about natural medicine

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(NaturalNews) Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms is running advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that guide users to online marketplaces for illegal...

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for August 2 Get Kind Of Meta

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The NYT Mini Crossword for Aug. 2 includes a word (abbreviation?) from this subhead.

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Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet are spending big in a battle to dominate AI. It might not end well.

Big Tech giants concede that AI is costing huge sums of money with little return on investment right now. But they say it's worth the risk.

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This Week in AI: From Meta’s Ads to Apple’s Mobile Makeover, Big Tech Bets Big on AI

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Industry giants are going all-in on artificial intelligence (AI), with Meta, Apple and Nvidia leading the charge. As the FTC ramps up oversight and ethical concerns loom, these companies are racing to integrate AI into everything from…

Meta's Threads Reaches 200M Users, Rivaling X in Social Media Race

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Meta Platforms Inc's Threads reaches 200 million active users in just 13 months. The platform's growth is notable and it plans to offer targeted ads.

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Can Snapchat’s Ad Business Ever Scale to Rival Meta, YouTube or TikTok?

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Snap, despite continuing to grow its overall Snapchat user base and more than doubling the number of active advertisers in the second quarter of 2024, hit a speed bump with the earnings report and Q3 outlook — which missed Wall Street…

Market Clubhouse Morning Memo - August 2nd, 2024 (Trade Strategy For SPY, QQQ, AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, META And TSLA)

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Good Morning Traders! In today's Market Clubhouse Morning Memo, we will discuss SPY, QQQ, AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, META, and TSLA.

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India becomes the largest market for Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI usage as Q2 revenue crosses...

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India has become Meta's largest market for AI usage, highlighting the rapid adoption of AI technology and Meta's growing presence in the country.

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Meta's Threads Reaches 200 Million Users, Shows Threefold Growth Surge Over Recent Months

Meta’s Threads app (a Twitter/X rival) had a great start, hitting the 100 million active users mark in October of 2023. This was right before it struck the 130 million users mark in February of 2024. Considering it was just seven months…

Warzone’s Superi 46 nerf is making MW2 favorite meta again

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Warzone’s Season 5 update has shaken up the battle royale’s meta, with the Superi 46 being nerfed. And now, a popular Modern Warfare 2 SMG is rising up the ranks again.

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Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users

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A day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about his newest social media experiment Threads reaching “almost” 200 million users on the company’s Q2 2024 earnings call, the platform has touched the milestone. Instagram head Adam Mosseri…

Video Cutouts and Effects in a Few Clicks with SAM 2 by Meta

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Meta has recently introduced SAM 2. Building on the takeaways of its predecessor, the new AI model is capable of segmenting various objects in images and videos and tracking them almost in real time. This next generation of Segment…

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Fahmi suggests ‘higher’ power at Meta removed PM Anwar’s post on slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 — Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the government has received indication that there was a...

Meta-analysis pinpoints what vaccination intervention strategies different countries should adopt

Identifying interventions that could increase vaccine coverage could help save lives. A new paper offers a comprehensive meta-analysis examining what types of vaccination intervention strategies have the greatest effect, and whether…

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Study: a year after Meta blocked news content in Canada due to the Online News Act, Canadians' total engagement with news content on social media is down 43% (The Canadian Press)

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Study: a year after Meta blocked news content in Canada due to the Online News Act, Canadians' total engagement with news content on social media is down 43% — Canadian news struggling after Meta ban: study — MONTREAL - A new study is…

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Comprehensive meta-analysis offers insights into strategies for increasing immunization uptake

Vaccines are safe and effective, and help reduce death and illness. But global vaccination rates are suboptimal and have trended downward, leaving humanity more vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases such as COVID-19, influenza,…