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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram purchase in antitrust trial
“Your honor, the FTC calls Mark Zuckerberg.” Flanked by two bodyguards, Meta’s CEO solemnly strode into a Washington, DC courtroom. Despite his last-ditch efforts to avoid a trial, he was there, jaw clenched, to defend his company from being broken up by the US government. Shortly after he was sworn in, the Federal Trade Commission’s lead attorney for the case,…
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Meta executive denies hyping up Llama 4 benchmark scores – but what can users expect from the new models?
A senior figure at Meta has denied claims that the tech giant boosted performance metrics for its new Llama 4 AI model range following rumors online. Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, took to X to address the issue, claiming they’re “simply not true”. The rumors centered around claims Meta trained its new Llama 4 Maverick and Scout models…
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Meta helped build China’s DeepSeek: Whistleblower testimony
Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, revealing how the company’s AI model, Llama, played a critical role in accelerating China’s AI capabilities — particularly contributing to the rise of DeepSeek. Actively endorsed by Chinese officials, DeepSeek has emerged as a formidable rival to OpenAI, with its launch costing just…
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Meta Is Expanding Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger
Social media can be a fantastic way to connect with friends and family, but it can also be dangerous—especially for kids and young adults. While modern social media platforms like Facebook have been around for over 20 years, figuring out how to make these apps and sites safe for minors is still an ongoing challenge. For all its faults, Meta…
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Meta gets caught gaming AI benchmarks with Llama 4
Over the weekend, Meta dropped two new Llama 4 models: a smaller model named Scout, and Maverick, a mid-size model that the company claims can beat GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash “across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks.” Maverick quickly secured the number-two spot on LMArena, the AI benchmark site where humans compare outputs from different systems and vote…
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Meta Releases Llama 4 AI Models; Beats GPT-4o and Grok 3 in LMArena
After a gap of four months, Meta has released a new series of Llama 4 open-weight models. The new AI models are Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. Unlike earlier dense models, Meta has gone with the MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture this time, just like DeepSeek R1 and V3. And all Llama 4 models are…
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Meta AI gets two new models as Meta releases Llama 4
Meta has announced the release of Llama 4, its newest collection of AI models that now power Meta AI on the web and in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram Direct. The two models, also available to download from Meta or Hugging Face now, are Llama 4 Scout, a small model capable of “fitting in a single Nvidia H100 GPU,” and Llama…
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Amazon, Google & Meta Push for Nuclear Power Growth by 2050
Image: World Nuclear Association In a significant move to address global energy challenges, Amazon, Google, and Meta recently joined forces with other large energy-intensive users to advocate for a substantial increase in nuclear power capacity. The coalition is calling for a tripling of global nuclear energy production by the year 2050, aiming to bolster energy security, meet escalating demand, and…
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Meta AI is rolling out in Europe after all
Meta is bringing its AI chatbot to Europe almost one year after pausing its launch in the region. Starting this week, Meta AI will roll out across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 41 European countries and 21 overseas territories — but it will be limited to text-based chat features for now. Meta AI launched in the US in 2023.…
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Ever Wanted to Conduct an Orchestra? This Meta Quest 3 Game Lets You
Summary Maestro offers a great pseudo-simulation of conducting through a gesture-based rhythm game and on- and off-screen antics. You conduct a variety of orchestral and jazz tracks through hand tracking with baton waves, gestures, and pointing. There are a good selection of other rhythm-action games on Meta Quest 3, if conducting an orchestra doesn’t sound like your idea of fun.…
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