snapchat Snapchat Launches Family Center Parental Controls in India Snapchat introduces its Family Center parental controls to users in India, allowing parents to monitor their teens' connections without viewing message content.
meta Meta Unveils Make-A-Video AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Moving Clips Meta introduces Make-A-Video, a new artificial intelligence system that generates short videos from simple text descriptions. The tool builds on previous text-to-image technology by teaching the AI to understand real-world motion.
meta Meta Unveils Make-A-Video AI That Turns Text Into Short Clips Meta introduces Make-A-Video, a new artificial intelligence system that generates five-second silent video clips from simple text prompts. The tool expands on recent text-to-image generators by predicting how pixels change over time.
meta Meta's Make-A-Video AI Generates Creepy State-of-the-Art Clips From Text Meta unveils Make-A-Video, a new text-to-video AI system that combines image diffusion with unsupervised video learning to achieve state-of-the-art results. Despite the impressive technical leap, the generated clips feature a distinctly surreal and nightmarish quality.
meta Meta Unveils Text-to-Video AI Amid High Computing Costs Meta introduces Make-A-Video, a new AI system that generates short video clips from text prompts. The technology builds on recent text-to-image AI breakthroughs but faces significant computational and ethical hurdles.
truefoundry Former Meta Engineers Raise $2.3M for Rapid ML Deployment Platform TrueFoundry, a startup founded by ex-Meta engineers, raises $2.3 million to automate machine learning deployment. The cloud-agnostic platform reduces production timelines from weeks to just hours for enterprise data teams.
remote work Tech Industry's Return-to-Office Push Exposes Deep Disrespect for Labor Major tech companies like Apple and Google hypocritically force employees back to the office despite building the tools that make remote work possible. This contradiction reveals an underlying disregard for workers that mirrors traditional corporate greed.
ai Sonar Earables and Virtual Rooms Push AI Boundaries Researchers develop a sonar-based earable that reads facial expressions through sound echoes, while AI2 introduces a framework to generate custom training environments for robots.
meta Meta Reuses 2020 Political Ad Restrictions for Upcoming U.S. Midterms Meta plans to disable new political and issue-based ads during the week before the November midterm elections. The company is relying on the same playbook it used in 2020 despite past enforcement failures.
meta Meta Releases Open-Source AI Model Capable of Translating 200 Languages Meta AI open-sources NLLB-200, a massive 54.5B parameter model that outperforms state-of-the-art systems in translating over 200 languages. The release includes an expanded FLORES-200 benchmark to evaluate machine translation across low-resource languages.
doordash DoorDash and Meta Test Delivery Service for Facebook Marketplace Items DoorDash and Meta are currently testing a new delivery feature for Facebook Marketplace that allows drivers to pick up and drop off eligible items. The partnership aims to make peer-to-peer selling safer and more convenient while helping DoorDash expand beyond food delivery.
facebook New Pew Study Confirms Teens Abandon Facebook in Droves A recent Pew Research Center study reveals that only 32% of U.S. teens use Facebook, a steep drop from 71% nearly a decade ago. Young users now view the platform as a boring utility for older generations rather than an engaging social space.
meta Meta Hands Over Teen's Messages in Landmark Nebraska Abortion Prosecution Meta provides a Nebraska teenager's private Facebook messages to police, leading to felony charges for allegedly using abortion pills. The tech giant hands over the data without challenging the legal order despite the questionable grounds of the investigation.
meta Meta Hands Over Teen's Messages to Police in Landmark Abortion Prosecution Meta provides a Nebraska teenager's private Facebook messages to law enforcement, leading to severe felony charges related to a suspected abortion. The data handover occurs despite the lack of initial evidence beyond the improper disposal of a miscarried fetus.
meta Meta Report Reveals Low-Sophistication Troll Farms Failing to Manipulate Online Discourse Meta's latest Adversarial Threat Report shows that global troll networks are largely unsophisticated and unsuccessful in their attempts to manipulate conversations. Despite their clumsy efforts, these groups still pose a threat through impersonation and real-world harassment.