Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s AI tools produce works that can cannibalize the authors’ book sales. US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria spent several hours grilling lawyers from both sides after they each filed motions for partial … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg says he believes most of the Meta’s code will be written by AI agents sometime within the next year-and-a-half. Zuckerberg made the prediction during an hour-long interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. “I would guess sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we’ll reach the point where most of the code that’s going … Read more
Meta didn’t wait for Tuesday’s LlamaCon keynote to unveil its first big AI announcement of the week. The company launched a standalone app that competes with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other multimodal AI chatbots. Sticking to the company’s roots, the app also includes a social feed and the ability to draw on info from your … Read more
Meta has been playing the AI game for a while now, but unlike ChatGPT, its models are usually integrated into existing platforms rather than standalone apps. That trend ends today — the company has launched the Meta AI app and it appears to do everything ChatGPT does and more. Powered by the latest Llama 4 … Read more
Meta has been rumored to be working with Oakley on a new set of smart glasses aimed at active users, but Innovative Eyewear has quietly beaten them to the punch. The company, which previously developed smart glasses for brands like Lucyd, Nautica, and Eddie Bauer, is back with a new lineup — this time partnering … Read more
Over the last couple years, Meta has started polluting its platforms with AI content, including AI-generated “companions” and chatbots that can replicate the voices of celebrities. The Wall Street Journal took a dip into the sludge of the AI pipeline and found that it’s more toxic than you might have imagined. According to a report … Read more
Meta’s AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. In test conversations conducted by WSJ, both the Meta AI official chatbot and user-created chatbots would engage in — and even steer towards — sexually explicit … Read more
After a couple years of having its open-source Llama AI model be just a part of its Connect conferences, Meta is breaking things out and hosting an entirely generative AI-focused developer conference called LlamaCon on April 29. The event is entirely virtual, and you’ll be able to watch along live on the Meta for Developers … Read more
In January, Meta announced its stand-alone video editing app for making Reels, simply called Edits. After release delays, users anywhere in the world can now download the app and try it out. The new video-creation tool is clearly inspired by the success of ByteDance’s similar CapCut app for TikTok, with tools dedicated to streamlined editing … Read more
This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social networking empire. It might be years before the nearly 3 billion users of the company’s flagship app Facebook—known internally as the Blue app—learn the fate of the service they still use, despite the constant obituaries. … Read more