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Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexanr Wang is leaving

Data-labeling company Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a “significant” investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion. The startup also said its co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang is stepping down from his role to join Meta and help the bigger company with its AI work. Reports indicate that Meta […]

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Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving

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Meta teams with XGS Energy to build a 150 MW geothermal power plant

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Meta is the latest tech company to warm to geothermal energy, announcing on Thursday a deal with startup XGS Energy to develop a 150 megawatt geothermal power plant in New Mexico. XGS Energy has yet to say where it’ll be building the power plant, and Meta wouldn’t disclose specifics about the deal other than to

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Meta sues AI ‘nudify’ app Crush AI for advertising on its platforms

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Meta has sued the maker of a popular AI “nudify” app, Crush AI, that reportedly ran thousands of ads across Meta’s platforms. In addition to the lawsuit, Meta says it’s taking new measures to crack down on other apps like Crush AI. In a lawsuit filed in Hong Kong, Meta alleged Joy Timeline HK, the

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Can Scale AI and Alexandr Wang reignite Meta’s AI efforts?

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Meta is reportedly investing nearly $15 billion dollars in the data labeling firm Scale AI and taking a 49% stake in the startup, while also bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang to help lead a new “superintelligence” lab within the company. The deal is reminiscent of Meta’s previous large and risky bets, such as its $19

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Meta AI gains video editing capabilities

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Meta said Wednesday that it is adding video editing capabilities to Meta AI that let users edit short videos using preset AI prompts to change costumes, locations, and styles. With these new features, the company is taking on rivals like Google that have been steadily adding generative AI video tools to their apps, as well

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Meta’s V-JEPA 2 model teaches AI to understand its surroundings

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Meta on Wednesday unveiled its new V-JEPA 2 AI model, a “world model” that is designed to help AI agents understand the world around them. V-JEPA 2 is an extension of the V-JEPA model that Meta released last year, which was trained on over 1 million hours of video. This training data is supposed to

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After Google, Meta loses public policy head in India

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Meta’s head of public policy in India, Shivnath Thukral, is leaving the social networking company, nearly three and a half years after joining, and just months after his counterpart at Google stepped down. Thukral spent over seven and a half years at Meta and took over as public policy lead for the South Asian market

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Threads is finally getting a DM inbox

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that the company’s social network Threads will finally begin testing a separate DM (direct message) inbox that’s separate from users’ Instagram DM Inboxes. This means Threads users won’t have to use Instagram or switch apps to chat with someone on the platform. The company will initially test this feature

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