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EU ruling clamps down on Meta’s use of personal data for ads – Computerworld
The European Court of Justice has decided that Facebook owner Meta must minimize the amount of personal data it uses for personalized ads, the BBC reports . The decision from the EU’s top court means that only a small part of Meta’s data collection can be used for advertisements. The ruling stems from a complaint by privacy activist Max Schrems, who…
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Meta’s Movie Gen Can Create Eerie Videos and Audio
The next natural step in the generative AI era is generative videos, but that’s much more complex than just generating pictures or text. Meta’s Movie Gen AI wants to be a comprehensive interface for all your video-generating needs, but it’s still not publicly available. Meta has announced Movie Gen, a new set of generative AI models that can create and…
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Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras
All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear. I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference, where just about every hardware…
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Apple embraced Meta’s vision (and Meta embraced Apple’s) – Computerworld
Apple has made a big point of emphasizing the categorization of Apple Vision Pro as spatial computing, not AR or VR. The spatial features are among the best things about Apple Vision Pro. The augmented reality feel of Apple Vision Pro is achieved through pass-through video. You don’t actually see the room you’re in; you see a video of the…
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Meta’s Llama models get 350 million downloads – Computerworld
The recent 20 million downloads could be seen as an effect of the company’s Llama 3.1 update that included a 405 billion parameter model as well as 70 billion parameter and 8 billion parameter variants — all of which performed better on various benchmarking tests, such as MATH and HumanEval. “Hosted Llama usage by token volume across our major cloud…
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Are Meta’s carbon emissions shrinking? Depends on how you look at it
Untangling companies’ environmental claims these days can be a head-spinning endeavor, and reading Meta’s latest sustainability report is no exception. Depending on how you look at it, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions either grew or fell last year. Depending on how you look at it, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions either grew or fell last year Confused? The discrepancy has…
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UK Competition Watchdog Accepts Meta’s Proposed Changes to Ad Data Use
Meta’s new approach to handling advertiser data has been approved by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority. This comes ahead of the rollout of a new digital markets competition regime, which will grant it more power to quash the monopolistic behaviours of big tech companies. As well as approving Meta’s commitments, the CMA has also closed its existing Competition Act…
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