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Meta makes its MobileLLM open for researchers, posting full weights
Developers and researchers interested in testing MobileLLM can now access the models on Hugging Face, fully integrated with the Transformers library.Tech - VentureBeat - October 31 -
Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.Tech - The New York Times - November 5 -
Meta extends ban on new political ads past Election Day
Meta extends restriction period for new political ads throughout the week of the U.S. elections.Business - CNBC - November 5 -
OpenAI hires Meta's former Orion head to lead its robotics efforts
The former head of Meta's augmented reality glasses initiative has joined OpenAI to lead the startup's robotics and consumer hardware efforts.Business - CNBC - November 5 -
Meta extends political ad ban until post-Election Day
Meta extended the ban on new political ads on its platforms through Election Day, the social media giant announced Monday. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram said the restriction on new ...Politics - The Hill - November 5 -
Meta Extends Ban on New Political Ads to After Election
The extra days when the tech giant’s platform won’t take new ads reflects widespread concerns about misinformation.Business - Inc. - November 5 -
Meta Fined $15 Million in South Korea for Illegal User Data Collection
The country’s privacy watchdog said Meta amassed sensitive information by analyzing users’ likes and the ads they opened.Business - Inc. - November 5 -
Under Trump, Tech Giants Like Apple and Meta Face a Familiar Uncertainty
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and others learned during the last Trump administration to expect the unexpected when it came to Washington scrutiny and support.Business - The New York Times - November 7 -
Lawsuit Against Meta Over Section 230, Tech Shield Law, Is Dismissed
A professor sued pre-emptively to release software that would let users automatically unfollow everyone in their Facebook feed.Tech - The New York Times - November 8 -
Meta Horizon Worlds Has Been Taken Over by Children
Lowered age restrictions and cheaper VR headsets have led to young kids hijacking the metaverse. Maybe we should let them keep it.Tech - Wired - November 12 -
Activist investor ValueAct has $1 billion stake in Meta, sources say
Activist investor ValueAct has a $1 billion stake in Facebook parent Meta, according to people familiar with the matter.Business - CNBC - November 12 -
Meta must face trial in FTC antitrust lawsuit, judge rules
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Meta must face trial in an antitrust case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the social media giant’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. ...Politics - The Hill - November 13 -
EU slaps Meta with nearly 800M euro fine for 'abusive' Marketplace practices
European Union regulators hit Facebook parent Meta with a fine of nearly 800 million euros on Thursday for what it calls “abusive practices” involving its Marketplace online classified ads businessTech - ABC News - November 14 -
Meta Fined $843 Million by EU Over Marketplace Ads Platform
The European Commission said the company tied its classified-ads platform to its flagship social network, undermining competition.Tech - The Wall Street Journal - November 14 -
Meta Fined $840 Million in Europe for Boosting Marketplace Unfairly
Meta said it would appeal the decision by the European Union, which said the company had abused its dominance in social networking to strengthen its shopping and classified ads service.Business - The New York Times - November 14 -
China’s Baidu joins Meta in race to make AI-integrated smart glasses
Launch comes as Chinese internet groups jostle for dominance in hardwareBusiness - Financial Times - November 13 -
Meta ‘hackathon’ devises ways to use AI system in UK public services
Meta asked over 200 programmers in Europe to devise ways of using Llama AI system. Meta’s push to deploy its artificial intelligence system inside Britain’s public sector took a step forward on ...World - The Guardian - November 19 -
Meta Poaches Salesforce Exec to Build AI Business Tools
The goal of the newly formed team at Meta ‘is to make cutting-edge AI accessible to every business.’Business - Inc. - November 20 -
Meta's Threads app launches custom feeds amid Bluesky surge
Meta's Instagram Threads began rolling out a new custom feed feature to give users the ability to build their feeds around the people and topics they are most interested in. The feature was made ...Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago -
Meta removes 2 million accounts related 'pig-butchering' scams
Some major tech companies including Meta are taking steps to combat “pig butchering” scams, which trick Americans out of billions of dollars each year through fake online friendships and romances.Top stories - NBC News - 5 days ago -
Meta removes 2 million accounts accused of 'pig butchering' scams
Meta said Thursday it removed more than 2 million accounts linked to "pig-butchering" investment schemes that leave victims out of large sums of money. These pig-butchering fraud schemes are ...Politics - The Hill - 5 days ago -
Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica ...Tech - ABC News - 5 days ago -
Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X
Social media giant’s Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surgesBusiness - Financial Times - 4 days ago -
Orange partners with OpenAI, Meta to develop custom African-language AI models
Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems.Business - CNBC - Yesterday -
Microsoft says Google is running 'shadow campaigns' in Europe to influence regulators
Microsoft suggested Google has a pattern of funding organizations with the mission of discrediting the software company with regulators.Business - CNBC - October 28 -
Microsoft accuses Google of ‘shadow campaigns’ to undermine its business
War of words between Big Tech companies reveals fierce rivalry in cloud computingBusiness - Financial Times - October 28