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“No. I was not paid to critique the Anxious Generation,” one Haidt critic wrote.
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Where Meta’s privacy policy is reactive, Google’s approach is proactive.
Eager to separate its glasses from Meta’s offerings, Google is positioning its frames as the more privacy-minded option.
It comes after the 51-year-old disgraced entertainer was sentenced to 10-and-a-half-years in prison.
The founder of Australian Femicide Watch, Sherele Moody, has demanded the page be reinstated.
Meta's infrastructure head Santosh Janardhan will step down in early 2027, handing over to ex-AWS executive Dave Brown as Meta pours billions into AI.
The founder of Australian Femicide Watch, Sherele Moody, has demanded the page be reinstated.
ByteDance plans a Muse-style AI assistant within weeks, Bloomberg reports, as Zhang Yiming tells staff frontier parity will take until at least 2029.
Meta and TikTok joined Google in opposing Indonesia’s copyright revisions, which would make platforms pay publishers and set rules for AI.
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Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan will leave in 2027, with former AWS senior vice president David Brown taking over.
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
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The tech giant rolls out age-detection tool for Instagram and Facebook, but experts doubt whether it can help protect teens.
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Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
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AI-powered scans will be used for Instagram accounts starting this month and later extended to Facebook and Threads.
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Meta says it will expand Teen Account protections to millions more kids, even if they’ve misrepresented their age.
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The new model is “designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing,” Meta says. The company claims Muse Ember delivers “more intelligence per dollar” than Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 or OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna “at any reasoning setting.” [Link: Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember | https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-ember | Meta AI Research]
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Meta is rolling out email addresses for Muse, which means you can “Add it to a thread or forward it an email, and it’ll handle the replies and follow-ups for you,” according to VP of AI products Vishal Shah. It’s coming to paid Muse subscribers in the US and Canada, Shah says. AI chief Alexandr Wang announced the feature at Connect in September.
Meta VR Glasses will run an IMAX app with a virtual theatre and IMAX Enhanced films when they launch in spring 2027.