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Up First briefing: Meta's free AI; Trump's legal troubles; a scary fish's teeth

Facebook's parent company has released its newest AI for free. Trump says he's a target in the Jan. 6 insurrection investigation. An Oklahoma boy finds a piranha-like fish with human-like teeth.

WEKU

A.I. is ‘quite stupid,' top exec at Facebook parent company Meta insists

"They literally try and guess the next word in response to a prompt that you give them," Meta's president of global affairs said. "They have no innate autonomous intelligence at all.”

Fortune

Threads gets its first major update with a new follow tab, no not that one

Threads has received its first major update with new additions like translations and a follow tab.

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Nick Clegg defends release of open-source AI model by Meta

Head of global affairs at Facebook owner claims AI’s development is running behind ‘hype’ about its risks

The Guardian - UK

Today’s Cache | Meta’s ChatGPT rival goes public; Anthropic CEO to testify before Senate; Global smartphone market dips

Meta announced the release of its next generation AI model Llama 2 this week, with Microsoft as its “preferred partner.”

The Hindu

Meta champions open source A.I., but there's a revealing exception in the fine print

Meta will open source LLaMa 2, but with a license requirement for companies with 700 million monthly active users—an interestingly specific threshold.

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg just made Meta’s A.I. models open source. OpenAI used to do that, until backtracking because it was ‘just not wise’

The company’s newest large language model, Llama 2, will be available for free in the hopes that it will help Meta better evaluate where its vulnerabilities lie.

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Meta to make new version of AI model available free of charge on Microsoft

Move gives start-ups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard

The Guardian - US

Instagram agrees to pay $68.5 million in Illinois biometric privacy settlement

Millions of Illinois Instagram users may be eligible for a cut of a new $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement.

Chicago Tribune

Threads, like Twitter, will introduce a rate limit to crack down on spam bots

Threads will look to introduce a rate limit as the platform struggles with aggressive spam bots and attacks.

Android Central

TikTok for iPhone is getting passkeys

Top social media platform TikTok is implementing secure passwordless login for iPhone users.

TechRadar

Threads usage is dipping already — but why?

A new report suggests that average daily usage of Meta’s Threads app has plummeted

Evening Standard

Threads will soon get these 3 features to convince you to stay, plus 1 you may hate

A leaked document has revealed three important features are coming to Threads, but you might not love its new rate limits.

TechRadar

Is Labor cooking up a ‘ministry of truth?’ No, it’s just an opposition scare campaign – with a side of hypocrisy

The Coalition now opposes the type of social media regulation it supported in government – and its about-face is aimed at fuelling the campaigning journalism of Labor’s critics

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The Hindu

As VR market grows in India, no safety standards in place for headsets

India has no safety requirements for virtual reality headsets, even as companies like Apple and Meta gear up to sell them. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has no registration process for these products, and the government is still deliberating on the issue.

Newsroom.co.nz

Social media's new revolution

Two decades after Facebook changed our lives, social media is going through another big upheaval.

TechRadar

Facebook business owners targeted by hackers

Fake Facebook ad campaigns actually collecting login information about your Facebook Business account.

Barchart

2 Cathie Wood Stocks to Buy in July 2023 and 1 to Sell

Cathie Wood's flagship ARK Innovation ETF has rebounded in 2023 and some of her holdings including Tesla have more than doubled during this period. Meta Platforms and Teladoc Health look like two Wood stock worth buying at these levels, while Coinbase appears a sell.

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Broadcasting & Cable

VideoAmp Measuring Lift For Tune-In Ads on Facebook, Instagram

Tests also provide insights on cost per incremental tune-in

The Walrus

We Don’t Need Threads. We Need a Break

It’s the fastest-growing app in history. Its success proves we’re addicted to something we know is bad for us

Salon

Tax billionaires for their own good

From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality

WEKU

Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission

Nora Roberts, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Chabon and Margaret Atwood are among those signing an Authors Guild letter asking artificial intelligence companies to get permission or offer compensation.

Tribune News Service

With upheaval on Twitter, some Virginia lawmakers make the move to Threads

Del. Cia Price has been on Twitter for nearly a decade.

The Guardian - UK

Thanks to Threads, Meta just got bigger. Should we be concerned?

The growing size and market dominance of Facebook’s parent company is coming under greater scrutiny, says associate professor Niamh Dunne

Zenger

Jack Dorsey Mocks Mark Zuckerberg For Sending A Follow Request On Threads: “Too Soon”

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