Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

IIn March, Meta’s Oversight Board called on the company to “meet its public commitments and employ its own tools” to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal – an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company’s new AI model. But […]

BlackRock is raising $12bn to build Meta a data centre it will own, lend to, and rent out
BlackRock is raising $12bn to build Meta a data centre it will own, lend to, and rent out

On Monday, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley began pitching investors on a bond sale of at least $12 billion, as The Wall Street Journal reported. The money will build a Meta data centre in El Paso, Texas. The structure is the story. Who owns what BlackRock …

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Suck at bedtime stories? Meta has an AI to tuck kids in

Meta’s experimental StoryKit app generates personalized stories, illustrations, narration, and music using a child, toy, setting, or lesson selected by a parent

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

Meta’s StoryKit app is only available in certain regions while the company tests how parents react to it.

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Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eig…

Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

With the new “Replace Audio” tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post’s existing likes, comments, shares, and reach intact.

Instagram will let users endlessly swap the audio on old posts
Instagram will let users endlessly swap the audio on old posts

There’s a symbiotic – and sometimes frustrating – relationship between social media sites and the creators that depend on them. Platforms need influencers’ and creators’ content to keep consumers on their apps; the creators, in turn, need to be able to reach those audiences to justify creating their content in the first place. Creators want […]

Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen’s time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.

Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight
Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight

Meta went on trial in Nashville on Monday over Tennessee’s allegation that it engineered Instagram to keep teenagers compulsively scrolling, one of the first state cases to put the question of addictive design before a jury. Jury selection began on 20 …