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The means by which humans communicate and coordinate are ever-evolving. People went from sending smoke signals and messengers on horseback to sending letters and telegrams, and since the dawn of the digital era, the pace of innovation has exploded.Today, hundreds or even thousands of peopl ...

Amazon has launched its own artificial intelligence-powered assistant built for business, “Amazon Q.” The AI chatbot can be used to have conversations, solve problems, generate content, gain insights and connect with a company’s information repositories, code, data and en ...

Social media giant, Meta has reportedly disbanded its Responsible AI division, the team dedicated to regulating the safety of its artificial intelligence ventures as they get developed and deployed. According to a report, many RAI team members have transitioned to roles within the Gen ...

Social media giant Meta has introduced its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for content editing and generation, according to a blog post on Nov. 16. The company is introducing two AI-powered generative models. The first, Emu Video, which leverages Meta's previous Emu model, ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is not allowing political campaigns and advertisers to use its generative artificial intelligence (AI) advertising tools, a company spokesperson said in a Reuters exclusive report. On Nov. 6 Meta updated its help center to reflect th ...

A coalition of major social media platforms, artificial intelligence (AI) developers, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have issued a joint statement pledging to combat abusive content generated by AI.On Oct. 30, the United Kingdom issued the policy statement, which inc ...

The chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Meta has spoken out, reportedly saying that worries over the existential risks of the technology are still “premature,” according to a Financial Times interview. On Oct. 19 the FT quotes Yann LeCun as saying the premature regulation ...

The Metaverse concept gained a lot of traction both from the crypto community and venture capital firms during the peak of the bull run. The likes of Meta (Facebook) and Apple joining the metaverse bandwagon only gave more legitimacy to the concept. However, the approach of both multi-billion dol ...

South Korea's top internet company, Kakao, and leading game developer, Com2uS, are reportedly downsizing their metaverse teams due to significant losses incurred by their virtual world platforms in the first half of 2023. Here are some key points: Com2uS, a major mobile game developer w ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expanded the metaverse Horizon Worlds from virtual reality headsets to mobile devices and computers. In a recent blog post, the 3D avatar-based social platform announced the early access rollout of its first Meta Horizon world to mobile and web platforms. The initial ...

A team of researchers from Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin have developed a large language artificial intelligence model with the distinction of having been intentionally tuned to generate outputs with expressed bias.Called OpinionGPT, the team’s model is a tuned variant of Meta&rsquo ...

In an increasingly AI-driven world, blockchain could play a critical role in preventing the sins committed by apps like Facebook from becoming widespread and normalized.Artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have entered the mainstream and have already be ...

The CEO of Chinese tech company Baidu, Robin Li, said on Sep. 5 that more than 70 artificial intelligence (AI) models have been released in the country, according to a report from Reuters. Li commented that the over 70 AI language models that have been released were created with over ...

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 ...

The lower house of India’s parliament voted in approval of a bill that would ease data compliance regulations for Big Tech companies on Aug. 7, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 would ease storage, processing and transfer standards fo ...

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 ...

An Australian court has reportedly ordered Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook, to pay fines amounting to 20 million Australian dollars ($14 million) for collecting user data through a smartphone application, Onavo. According to a Reuters report, Australia’s Federal Court has ordere ...

Josh Gerben, a trademark attorney with Gerben Intellectual Property, has suggested the company formerly known as Twitter could spend upward of $100 million in dealing with litigation as a result of the X rebranding.In a July 25 X thread, Gerben predicted that lawsuits against X related to ...

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 ...

As Coinbase stock reaches a 52-week high, ARK Invest — the investment management firm led by Bitcoin (BTC) bull Cathie Wood — has recently sold more of its shares in the crypto exchange.Following ARK Invest’s significant acquisition of Coinbase shares during the bear market, ...

Scammers appear to have wasted no time since the launch of Meta’s new microblogging app — with several high-profile Crypto Twitter users already warning of imposter accounts on Threads. Threads was launched on July 5 and has seen sign-ups climb above 98 million in the days foll ...

Meta is planning to launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, on July 6, only days after Twitter’s “rate limit” debacle which has temporarily capped how many posts users can read per day.The platform, which is heavily tied to the photo and video-sharing social network Instag ...

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 AI recently unveiled a “breakthrough” text-to-speech (TTS) generator it claims produces results up to 20 times faster than state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models with comparable performance. The new system, dubbed Voicebox, eschews traditional TTS architecture in favor o ...

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 ...

American Web2 giant commissioned a study from Deloitte on the impact of the meta-universe on U.S. gross domestic product Metaworlds could add $760 billion to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035. This conclusion was reached by consulting giant Deloitte, which carried out the calculation b ...

American billionaire Peter Thiel left Meta's board of directors shortly after criticizing the company's obsession with the meta universe Criticism of Meta*'s (recognized by Russian authorities as extremist and banned in the country) plans for the meta universe cost American billionaire Peter Thie ...

The American company known as Meta* (which has been deemed extremist by the Russian government and therefore banned in the country) is reportedly preparing to implement additional rounds of layoffs. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on this development, citing anonymous sources within the co ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced a major update that will affect digital collectibles on the platforms. Starting from April 11th, users will no longer be able to post with digital collectibles, and the collectibles previously posted will lose their blockchain info ...

According to The Wall Street Journal, Democratic Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal have called on Meta to cancel its plans to release a metaverse app for teenagers. This comes after reports that Meta is attempting to crack down on the spread of intimate images of teens on its platforms, F ...

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 ...

Gamium, a blockchain startup specializing in the development of Web3 technologies for the metaverse, has recently announced a partnership with Meta*. The partnership, which is part of the Metaverse Activation Program initiative, is expected to provide Gamium with technical and expert support from ...

Meta has recently declared that it will no longer provide support for non-fungible tokens (NFT) on its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram. This feature was introduced merely 10 months ago. According to Stephane Kasriel, the head of commercial and financial technology at Meta, the deci ...

According to a well-known cryptocurrency blogger, trader, and analyst, there has never been a better time to hold onto digital assets for the long haul due to the increasing number of companies entering the market. Lark Davis has compiled a list of major companies that are driving the adoption of ...

Canadian actor and Hollywood icon Keanu Reeves has recently shared his admiration for some of the most groundbreaking innovations of our time, including cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and metaverses. While promoting his latest film Jo ...