Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning has its fair share of cinematic flair, but many details in the story hew closely to real life. The movie tells the story of how Frances Haugen, a Facebook civic integrity product manager, came to leak a large trove of internal documents to Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz, […]
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple’s App Store, the latest update to Meta’s Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta’s agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT’s Dots, and Grok Bot) was released about a […]
Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will no longer run only on SpaceX’s own AI models. It will also use models from rivals, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday. “Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best ba…
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a “virtual cell” that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reuters. The project is led by Biohub, a nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. […]
Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on …
When David Fincher’s The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world by creating Facebook. Writer Aaron Sorkin’s script was critical of Zuckerberg’s character and his ruthless approach to doing business, but it also helped mythologize the co-founder at a time when the […]
Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Meta over Instagram’s Instants feature, the UK regulator said on Tuesday. It will check whether Meta broke the Online Safety Act by failing to assess the feature’s risks before launch. Meta launched Instants…
Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UK’s Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notice…