Horizon Worlds’ Daily User Count Revealed: Concerns Raised About Underage Access
The number of daily users in the Horizon Worlds meta-universe developed by Meta is now just 900 people. This was revealed by YouTube blogger Jarvis Johnson. Meta claimed that Horizon Worlds, which is valued at $36 billion, is visited by at least 200,000 users a month. And CEO Mark Zukerberg ha ...
Weekend Wrap: Uniswap dev sacked for alleged rug, Steadefi hacker goes mixing and more
Uniswap dev loses job, was it worth it? A Uniswap developer known as “AzFlin” has been sacked by the founder of Uniswap Labs, Hayden Adams, for allegedly creating a memecoin and rug pulling it a few hours later for 14 wrapped-Ether (wETH), worth $25,800. It is understood ...
Meta sinks $3.7B in metaverse money pit as CEO eyes Threads user retention
Meta's metaverse-related losses topped $3.74 billion over the second quarter with the Big Tech player spending $7.7 billion on its virtual reality business so far in 2023.Its second-quarter 2023 results released on July 26 saw Meta report an 11% revenue gain compared to the same quart ...
Meta and Microsoft launch open-source AI model Llama 2
Big Tech firms Meta and Microsoft have teamed up to launch Llama 2, an open-source large language model from Meta that will feature on Microsoft’s Windows and cloud computing platform Azure.The pair announced the collaboration on July 18 saying Llama 2 was made free for research and ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s jiu-jitsu or Elon Musk’s street-fight ‘walrus’ — Who will win?
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has emerged as a clear favorite among betters in a proposed “cage match” with Twitter owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In the 48 hours since the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) challenge was issued by Musk, sports betting firms and odds providers hav ...
Meta’s Zuckerberg grilled by senators over ‘leak’ of LLaMA AI model
Two United States senators have questioned Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg over the tech giant’s “leaked” artificial intelligence model LLaMA which they claim is potentially “dangerous” and could be used for “criminal tasks.”In a June 6 letter ...
Meta* joins the race to create a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot
Meta* has recently announced its plan to develop a new chatbot based on artificial intelligence (AI), joining the growing list of technology companies that are inspired by the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. The CEO of Meta*, Mark Zuckerberg, shared the news on Facebook* that the company wou ...
Facebook founder still believes in virtual worlds despite lack of development progress
Zuckerberg's unwavering faith in the potential of virtual worlds has led him to pledge billions of dollars towards their development, even in the face of slow progress. As per Zuckerberg, the Reality Labs metaverse unit remains a key focus for the c ...