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Zuckerberg: AI increased the time spent on Facebook and Instagram in Q2

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg credited AI with driving up the time users spent on the company’s apps in the second quarter. While consumers are increasingly complaining about the prevalence of “AI slop” — or low-quality AI-generated content flooding social apps — Meta says that AI systems are getting better at helping users connect with recommended […]

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Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision on Wednesday for “personal superintelligence,” the idea that people should be able to use AI to achieve their personal goals.  Smuggled into the letter is a signal that Meta is shifting how it plans to release AI models as it pursues “superintelligence.” “We believe the benefits of superintelligence

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A guide to using Edits, Meta’s CapCut rival for short-form video editing

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Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators.  Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban

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Google says UK government has not demanded an encryption backdoor for its users’ data

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The U.K. government is reportedly backing down from its earlier demand that Apple builds a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data worldwide, following a harsh rebuke from the U.S. government. But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands from the U.K.

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Google won’t say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data

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The U.K. government is reportedly backing down from its earlier demand that Apple builds a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data worldwide, following a harsh rebuke from the U.S. government.  But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands from the U.K.

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company’s new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao contributed to several of OpenAI’s largest breakthroughs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company’s first AI reasoning model, o1. “I’m excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the

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Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October

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In response to the European Union’s incoming regulation of political advertising, Meta said on Friday that it will stop selling and showing political ads in the EU from October. Calling the legislation’s requirements “unworkable,” the tech giant wrote in a blog post that the law, dubbed Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA), introduces “significant,

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AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties

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So-called AI slop, meaning LLM-generated low quality images, videos, and text, has taken over the internet in the last couple of years, polluting websites, social media platforms, at least one newspaper, and even real-world events.  The world of cybersecurity is not immune to this problem, either. In the last year, people across the cybersecurity industry

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Meta researchers are developing a gesture-controlled wristband that can interact with a computer

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Meta researchers are developing a wristband that lets people control a computer using hand gestures. This includes moving a cursor, opening apps, and sending messages by writing in the air as if using a pencil.  Meta’s wristband employs a technique called surface electromyography (sEMG), which detects electrical signals generated by muscle activity to interpret user

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