It’s been a year since Meta launched Threads in an attempt to take over the platform now known as X. Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that he hoped it would turn into “a public conversation app with over 1 billion people on it.” Meta’s timing was good. Threads launched at a particularly chaotic time … Read more
Meta has announced that it will no longer support the Meta Quest 1 headset Fans have been warned that the headset will no longer protect their data Metafans are furious after the company announced it is ending support for one of its biggest products. In an email to customers, the tech giant said it would … Read more
Metafans are furious after the company announced it is ending support for one of its biggest products. In an email to customers, the tech giant said it would no longer provide software updates for the original Meta Quest 1 VR headset, formerly known as Oculus Quest. The headset was released in 2019 and was one … Read more
META is ending support for a beloved virtual reality tool. Users are begging the company to reconsider. In an email to owners of the original Meta Quest, the company informed them that the headset would no longer receive bug fixes or security updates as of August 31. Meta has announced that it will end support … Read more
Topline Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta broke Europe’s strict digital competition rules by forcing users to “pay or consent” to share personal data, the European Commission said Monday. The breach could cost the company billions of dollars and comes just a week after the powerful regulator clamped down on iPhone giant Apple for stifling … Read more
A European Commission investigation 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 released by the regulator on Monday reported. The Commission wrote in a press release that the binary choice offered by Meta “forces … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor-in-chief of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has accused Facebook’s parent company Meta of violating the bloc’s historic digital rules, just a week after it brought a similar case against Apple. The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, is exercising … Read more
In August 2023, as part of Mark Zuckerberg’s “year of efficiency” that led to more than 20,000 layoffs, Meta disbanded a research team of a dozen scientists who had trained a large AI language model for biology. But Alexander Rives, who led the research cohort known as Meta’s “AI protein team,” wasn’t deterred by Meta’s … Read more
The 15th Augmented World Expo (AWE) took place this week in Long Beach. Mixed Reality (MR) on the Oculus Quest and Apple Vision Pro, and a wave of mobile AR tools dominated the show, with AI having a noticeably low profile. So much for my prediction that it would dominate the show. Collage of people … Read more
Meta’s artificial intelligence chief said the large language models that power generative AI products like ChatGPT would never achieve the ability to reason and plan like humans, as he focused instead on a radically alternative approach to creating ‘superintelligence’ in machines . Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at the social media giant that owns Facebook … Read more