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Live From Rinkside: Xtadium to Stream the 2025 Stanley Cup Final Free on Meta Quest

The NHL postseason is down to the final round and this year’s Stanley Cup will be more immersive than ever. For the 2025 NHL championship, viewers can watch the action from the ice for free in the Xtadium app. That’s all the action rinkside in this year’s rematch of the 2023 final between the Floridan…

June 5, 2025

Meta Will Use Public Posts and Comments to Train AI in the EU

Meta announced today that it will soon start training AI using public content, like posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram, and user interactions with Meta AI. Those who are using Meta products in the EU will soon get notifications explaining what information will be used and how it will be used. The company says…

April 14, 2025

Meta’s Head of AI Research is Leaving the Company

Meta’s VP of AI research, Joelle Pineau, announced in a Facebook post Tuesday that she’ll be leaving the company at the end of May, after nearly eight years. Pineau has been leading the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) group since 2023. The group is focused on achieving “advanced machine intelligence (AMI) to accelerate the potential of…

April 1, 2025

Facebook’s Parent Company Meta Plans to Spend Billions To Improve High Speed Internet Spanning Five Continents

In a groundbreaking move to bolster global internet infrastructure, Meta has announced “Project Waterworth,” an initiative to lay down a colossal 50,000-kilometer undersea cable that will connect five continents. This project, which promises to be one of the longest undersea cables in history, underscores Meta’s commitment to enhancing the backbone of digital communication essential for…

February 19, 2025

Tech Industry Layoffs May Continue This Year Following Thousands of Job Cuts in 2023

This year has gotten off to a rough start for the tech industry. Just two months into 2024, companies like PayPal, Amazon, Salesforce, and Microsoft have laid off employees, according to Layoffs.fyi. Just last week, networking company Cisco unveiled plans to cut more than 4,000 jobs from its global workforce. This comes after tech workers…

February 19, 2024

Meta Will Label Content on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads That Was Created With AI

Ahead of an election year that’s just warming up, Meta said it will label content generated by artificial intelligence. This can cull misinformation but could also encourage AI content creators to adjust their tactics to fly under the radar. Meta has been working with industry partners to develop common technical standards that will issue an…

February 14, 2024

Meta Claims FTC Lacks Authority to go After Facebook on Child Data Privacy in Lawsuit

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission, arguing that the agency lacks the constitutional authority to go after the company over how it handles child data privacy. The lawsuit is Meta’s latest response to a lawsuit filed by the FTC and 42 attorneys general alleging that…

November 30, 2023

Facebook and Instagram Are Going the Route of Ad-Free Streaming Services

Meta on Monday said that it would begin offering an advertisement-free version of Instagram and Facebook to European users willing to pay a monthly subscription fee starting in November. It raises the question of whether people would actually pay for either social network or just move on. The company said that the ad-free tier will…

October 30, 2023

Instagram, Facebook Sued by 42 Attorneys General For “Knowingly” Developing Addictive Social Media Features

Meta is being sued by 42 attorneys general for allegedly designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive. The bipartisan group from 33 states is accusing the social media platforms of creating an addictive platform that negatively affects the mental health of kids and teens. The lawsuit outlines how Meta developed its platforms to encourage use…

October 25, 2023

Meta Used Your Facebook and Instagram Posts to Train its New AI

A top Meta executive said that the company was using Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new artificial intelligence system. But Meta did not use private posts in an “effort to respect consumers’ privacy,” Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg told Reuters in an interview. He said private chats in the Messenger app…

October 4, 2023

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