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Meta to use facial recognition to fight fake celebrity scams
FACEBOOK parent company Meta Platforms will start using facial recognition technology to crack down on scams that use pictures of celebrities to look more legitimate, a strategy referred to...
Meta must face Massachusetts social media addiction lawsuit
META Platforms must face a lawsuit by Massachusetts alleging the social media company purposely deployed features on its Instagram platform to addict young users and deceived the public about...
Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta
ADOBE on Monday (Oct 14) said it has started publicly distributing an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate video from text prompts, joining the growing field of companies...
Meta, challenging OpenAI, announces new AI model that can generate video with sound
FACEBOOK owner Meta announced on Friday (Oct 4) it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to...
EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91 million euros over password storage
THE lead European Union privacy regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros (S$130.2 million) on Friday (Sep 27) for inadvertently storing some users’ passwords without protection or...
Meta debuts Orion AR glasses as eventual smartphone rival
META Platforms debuted its first pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses – devices that show a combined view of the digital and physical worlds, a key step in chief...
Google, Meta Criticise U.K. and E.U. AI Regulations
Google and Meta have both openly criticised European regulation of artificial intelligence this week, suggesting it will quash the region’s innovation potential. Representatives from Facebook’s parent company along with...
Social media platforms engaged in ‘vast surveillance’ and failed to protect young people, FTC finds
Major social media platforms and video streaming services that gather a “staggering” amount of data from its users have failed to protect young people and safeguard online privacy, the...
