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Meta, the parent company behind Facebook and Instagram, is developing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to reduce reliance on Google and Microsoft’s Bing, as reported by The Information on October 28, 2024.

Meta, материнская компания Facebook и Instagram, сообщила о внедрении технологии распознавания лиц. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has unveiled its new facial recognition technology. The tool is designed to solve two critical issues: detecting fake ads featuring deepfake celebrities and assisting users in recovering hacked accounts.

At the Connect 2024 conference, Meta revealed the Orion augmented reality glasses prototype. Mark Zuckerberg, who showcased its capabilities, hailed it as "the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen."

The United States Postal Service (USPS) inadvertently shared email addresses from its Informed Delivery service with companies such as Meta, Snap, and LinkedIn. This happened via a tracking tool meant for analyzing website visits.

Artificial intelligence developers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have pledged to bolster security measures to protect children during the development and deployment of AI models. This effort is spearheaded by the nonprofits All Tech Is Human and Thorn, dedicated to child safety.

WhatsApp is testing the Meta AI chatbot among its user base in India and some yet-to-be-revealed regions. Remarkably, more than 500 million of WhatsApp’s 2 billion users worldwide are in India.

Meta is gearing up to roll out its new AI chip, Artemis, in its data centers this year, according to a Reuters report. This development could significantly diminish Meta's dependence on Nvidia processors.

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced his company's hefty investment in Nvidia graphics cards, pouring billions into the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). This AI aims to execute tasks with human-like proficiency. Zuckerberg anticipates Meta's inventory of H100 graphics cards to reach 350,000 units by the end of 2024.

Meta has recently introduced two artificial intelligence models, Emu Video and Emu Edit. Emu Video specializes in generating brief 4-second videos from textual descriptions or initial images, while Emu Edit focuses on detailed image editing capabilities.

Through a multi-year AI partnership with Reuters, Meta now empowers its AI chatbot to legally integrate Reuters' copyrighted news coverage in responses to user questions on news and events.

At the Adobe MAX event on October 14, Adobe (San Jose, California) unveiled an expansion to its Firefly AI tool suite.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) criticized several social media companies, including Meta, Google, and ByteDance, for collecting and processing user data without sufficient oversight or transparency. The collected data often includes age, gender, language, income, and other information of interest to advertisers.

Match Group, the developer of popular dating services, has joined forces with the crypto exchanges Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, and Meta (Facebook and Instagram) in a new initiative called Tech Against Scams. Together, they aim to combat the Pig Butchering scam, which involves building fake online relationships to steal assets.

Meta has introduced two new open-source LLMs from its Llama 3 series, available in various parameter configurations (8B/70B). Developers are inviting the global community to actively engage in testing and developers to assist in identifying any potential flaws or critical bugs.

Today, the European Commission has announced the initiation of an investigation into Apple and Alphabet (Google) concerning the alleged illegal preferences extended to their app stores, as reported by the Financial Times.

Meta, overseeing platforms like Facebook and Instagram, is set to implement a policy requiring users to tag all content generated by artificial intelligence. An automatic detection system for identifying such AI-created images, videos, and audio in posts is also in the pipeline.

In her letter to Mark Zuckerberg, U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters voiced apprehension about Meta's consistent push into the cryptocurrency realm.

Meta’s Chief Scientist, Yann LeCun, believes that current AI systems are a decade away from achieving any semblance of sentience or common sense.

Meta has introduced a ban on using artificial intelligence to create ads related to critical social issues, including politics, healthcare, employment, real estate, and finance.