Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and top executives devised a plan, codenamed Project OT, to use artificial intelligence to replace up to 60% of staff on many teams, with layoffs scheduled for …
Meta Platforms has unveiled its MTIA 300 custom AI accelerator, which integrates two network chiplets with six 800 Gb/s RDMA NICs each, delivering 1.2 TB/s of I/O bandwidth and eliminating CPU-mediate…
Meta has launched a new update and marketing campaign to address backlash against its smart glasses, which have been nicknamed 'pervert glasses' for enabling non-consensual filming. The update ensures…
Meta and TikTok have settled separate child safety lawsuits, with Meta agreeing to a $17 billion settlement and product changes in response to a lawsuit brought by 47 U.S. states, and TikTok agreeing …
Meta has agreed to pay $18 billion over ten years and implement sweeping child-safety changes, including a two-hour daily time limit for minors on Instagram and Facebook, to settle a lawsuit brought b…
Meta Platforms Inc. disrupted an Iran-linked network that used AI-generated personas to impersonate Americans across Facebook and Instagram, removing 294 Instagram accounts, 8 Facebook accounts, and 2…
Meta removed four Facebook accounts and 31 Instagram accounts linked to an Iran-based operation that used AI to impersonate Americans and post about U.S. politics, attracting roughly 79,400 followers.…
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement new kid-safety guardrails in a settlement with dozens of states, cutting short a landmark federal trial in Oakland, California, over claims that Inst…
Reuters reports that Meta Platforms Inc. explored slashing some teams by as much as 60% under a plan code-named Project OT to shift work to AI agents, but employee revolt and disappointing productivit…
The Trade Desk is rebooting its central ad-buying platform Kokai with new agentic features and addressing executive departures, including top engineer Aravind Chandrasekharan, as part of a turnaround …
A federal judge approved a landmark settlement requiring Meta to impose daily time limits, overnight lockouts, and stronger parental controls on Facebook and Instagram for users under 18, with Meta pa…
Lantern, a new free service, lets artists and creators upload images to generate one-way fingerprints and scans publicly available AI training datasets on Hugging Face and ModelScope to notify them if…
Mark Zuckerberg's plan to turn Meta into an "AI native" company, code-named Project OT, collapsed within months after internal data showed AI tools were not delivering expected productivity gains, acc…
Meta Platforms reached a proposed settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories, agreeing to pay $17.1 billion in penalties and implement new safety measures for teen…
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said Meta's $18 billion settlement with 51 other attorneys general falls short of the child protections his state won at trial, including a ban on romantic and …
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims filed by 47 states over teen social media addiction, state attorneys general announced Wedne…
Mark Cuban called Facebook 'the worst of the worst' for allowing AI-generated ads that use his likeness and voice to promote unendorsed products, saying he receives emails every week from elderly peop…
Meta planned far larger layoffs than previously reported, aiming to replace thousands of roles with AI-driven systems, but backed down after a staff revolt, according to internal documents and intervi…
OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to Russia that supported a covert influence campaign promoting the International Burke Institute, a think tank that republished copied academic paper…
Police and experts have confirmed that viral videos of a life-sized Cat in the Hat stalking people are AI-generated, not real. The posts, which have been viewed millions of times on TikTok, show the c…