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Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds

An investigation conducted by the European Commission has found that Meta’s “pay or consent” offer to Facebook and Instagram users in Europe does not comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to preliminary findings reported by the regulator on Monday. The Commission wrote in a press release that the binary choice Meta offers “forces […]

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Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to ‘create God’

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Riffing on what he sees for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday that he deeply believes that there will not be “just one AI.” Touting the value of open source to put AI tools into many people’s hands, Zuckerberg took a moment to disparage the efforts of

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Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company will begin to surface AI characters made by creators through Meta AI studio on Instagram. The tests will begin in the U.S. The social media company’s announcement comes on the same day as a16z-backed chatbot company Character.AI is rolling out the ability for users to

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Apple shelved the idea of integrating Meta’s AI models over privacy concerns, report says

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Days after the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple and Meta were in talks to integrate the latter’s AI models, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that the iPhone maker was not planning any such move. Apple briefly held talks with Meta about the possibility of a partnership way back in March, according to Bloomberg. This was

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Meta makes its AI chatbot available to all users in India

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. However, Meta AI currently only supports English and no other local languages. The company started testing Meta AI in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook in April by rolling it out

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What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway?

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the burgeoning artificial intelligence space, with controversy in hot pursuit. The New York Times recently published a gushing appraisal of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, noting how his “open source AI” embrace had made

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Meta is tagging real photos as ‘Made with AI,’ say photographers

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Earlier in February, Meta said that it would start labeling photos created with AI tools on its social networks. Since May, Meta has regularly tagged some photos with a “Made with AI” label on its Facebook, Instagram, and Threads apps. But the company’s approach of labeling photos has drawn ire from users and photographers after

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Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI

Fintech / Sasandara Dilmina

The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. One possible reason people aren’t as interested in the field is the large amount of drudge work involved: Accountants have to rifle through large amounts of unstructured

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