Tech Insider : Business
AI executives Alexandr Wang, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are pictured.
Alexandr Wang, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei lead three of the leading AI labs. All released new products and features this week.
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Brussels has decided that infinite scroll is not a feature but a hazard. On Friday, the European Commission told Meta to dismantle the design tricks that keep people glued to Facebook and Instagram, or risk a fine that could run into billions, in a fresh set of charges under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The […]

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Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta had been said to be weighing a venture, dubbed Meta Compute, to rent out its spare AI […]

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Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change, announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that let modders turn the glasses into covert recorders. A white LED lights up whenever the glasses capture photos or video, signalling […]

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New York has banned smart glasses in all 1,240 state, county, city, town and village courts.

Engadget
Meta has automatically opted all public accounts into its Muse Image AI.

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Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip belongs to Meta’s in-house silicon line, the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, which the company […]

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Meta’s chief technology officer has given the fullest account yet of the mishap that forced the company to halt its most contentious AI project, the keystroke-logging scheme it calls the Model Capability Initiative. Andrew Bosworth said a researcher had moved sensitive employee data somewhere it was never meant to sit, though he insisted there was […]

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Meta will build its first data centre in Canada, a 1-gigawatt campus in central Alberta that the company values at C$13 billion (about US$9 billion), extending the same relentless build-out that produced its $200 billion Hyperion campus in Louisiana. The facility will rise in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton, and become the company’s 33rd data centre […]