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US Senators Press Meta Over Its 'Pervert Glasses'
Ron Wyden and Edward Markey have sent Meta a letter demanding answers on how its smart glasses threaten the privacy of wearers and bystanders. The move follows an investigation by 404 Media.
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Meta Will Train AI on Business Account Content: How to Object From the EU and UK
Meta has updated its commercial terms to let it use business accounts' content to develop its products. Users in the EU and UK can object for now, while everyone else gets no such option.
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Google and Meta subsea cables in the Pacific among the most exposed to sabotage
US-owned trans-Pacific undersea cables face growing risks from sabotage. China's activity around this infrastructure is adding to Big Tech's concerns.
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Meta Staff Acknowledged Restrictions on Lula's Accounts Before Brazil Runoff
Internal company messages, reported by Brazil's Folha de S. Paulo, indicate the reach of the sitting president's Instagram accounts was reduced while his rival's profile was being recommended.
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Meta to create a new class of shares to bankroll its AI drive
In its quarterly earnings report, Meta announced a new class of non-voting shares to fund its artificial intelligence efforts, with trading set to begin in 2027.
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New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has come back to haunt Meta, with a New Mexico judge ordering the company to pay $25 billion for more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law.
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Lula Supporters Protest Against Meta Over Alleged 'Electoral Interference'
Supporters of Brazil's President Lula staged a demonstration against Meta, accusing the company of interfering in the electoral process.
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Meta Takes Down the «No Kings» Instagram Account on a Day of Mass Protest
Meta, the company led by Mark Zuckerberg, removed the «No Kings» movement's Instagram account on the very day of a large protest.
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Meta's new terms may let it train AI on news sites for free
Meta's revised commercial terms, taking effect on October 30th, appear to let the company crawl websites "associated" with business accounts, including news publishers, and use their content to train its AI.
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a model built to run on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up on a new open-weight model that runs locally on Apple silicon — provided you can supply at least a terabyte of RAM.
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Meta ships its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Meta's Superintelligence Lab has unveiled Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — the company's first attempt to play in the top tier of AI models.
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Drgn 0.3: Meta's Programmable Debugger Gets an Update
Meta has released version 0.3 of its open-source debugger Drgn, which bets on programmability — treating debugging like writing ordinary code.
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China's Manus raises over $500M after failed Meta deal
It's the startup's first funding round since Chinese authorities forced it to abandon a $2 billion acquisition by Meta. Investors include Boyu Capital, IDG Capital, Tencent and others.
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OpenAI's Dots agent takes on Meta — but can it beat free?
At DevDay, Sam Altman unveiled Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra. But where it matters most, it trails Meta's rival: Dots costs money, while Muse is free.
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Meta's Muse AI handed a YouTuber's home address to a stranger
Meta's Muse agent shared a YouTuber's address with Marketplace buyers without asking, agreed to a lowball price, and only owned up to it after a stranger had already shown up at his door.
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Meta Opens an Enterprise AI Platform and Poaches MongoDB's CEO
The company unveiled Meta Enterprise Platform for businesses and developers, tapping MongoDB chief Chirantan Desai to lead it. MongoDB shares tumbled more than 17% on news of his departure.
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
A Santa Fe jury ruled that the company misled users about how it protected their data. The judge will set the penalty — prosecutors are asking for the maximum $5,000 per violation.
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Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is quietly paying off
While OpenAI and Anthropic raced to ship new models, Meta stole the show: its personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and a tiny Tamagotchi-style gadget.
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Meta staff ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats amid child safety fight
As Meta shields evidence in teen-harm lawsuits by invoking attorney-client privilege, plaintiffs point to a leaked order for baseball caps reading “a/c priv” as proof of a “culture of privilege abuse.”
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Meta's Muse will happily hand over its whole filesystem
Two developers say they coaxed Meta's AI platform into zipping up and sharing its entire root filesystem with almost no effort. Meta insists it isn't a breach.
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