Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s AI agent technology is advancing more slowly than expected. He also acknowledged shortcomings in Meta’s recent restructuring and workforce changes during an internal town hall. The comments come as Meta continues investing heavily in artificial intelligence despite employee concerns. Zuckerberg said the company’s organisational overhaul, including layoffs […]
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Zuckerberg offers noise-canceling headphones to ease construction woes
Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly gifted noise-canceling headphones to neighbors in an effort to ease frustrations caused by years of construction activity at his Palo Alto compound. Read More: Zuckerberg says US pressure on Covid-19 posts was ‘wrong’ Zuckerberg has spent more than $110 million acquiring at least 11 properties in the Crescent […]
Meta’s Threads is now live: Mark Zuckerberg mocks Elon Musk
After Meta creator handed out Threads — only days after Twitter CEO Elon Musk was chastised for restricting the number of tweets individuals may view each day — Mark Zuckerberg took to Twitter for the first time in over a decade on Thursday to presumably mock Musk. Following the widespread criticism of Musk’s recent policy […]
Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse
The CEO of social media giant Meta has sworn by artificial intelligence, popularised by the chatbot ChatGPT. There will be no press release or big announcement because he would have to admit he was wrong. But make no mistake about it: Mark Zuckerberg has just buried the metaverse. The metaverse is no longer alive. The […]
Italy’s watchdog asks Facebook for clarification on pre-election activities
Milan: Italy’s watchdog asks Facebook for clarification on pre-election activities. Italy’s Data Protection Agency has asked Facebook to clarify the activities the social media giant has engaged in ahead of Sunday’s national elections, it said on Thursday. Tech giant Meta (Meta.O), which owns social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, has launched an information […]
Mark Zuckerberg exploits users to make money claims Meta’s chatbot
Meta’s new chatbot claimed that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money. Meta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on “nearly any topic”. The chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers, Meta said. The chatbot, called BlenderBot 3, was released to the public on Friday. The programme “learns” from […]
Is Facebook leading us on a journey to the metaverse?
The concept of the “metaverse” first came from the 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash as a place that people flee to escape a dangerous corporation-dominated world. It has since come to refer to a range of virtual experiences that have gained popularity during the pandemic – including video games such as Fortnite, non-fungible tokens or even online meetings and […]
Facebook working on smartwatch
Facebook on Wednesday confirmed it is working on a smartwatch that might one day connect with augmented reality glasses being developed by the leading social network. Facebook Reality Labs is investing in ways to make AR glasses more useful, unit head Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said in a tweet responding to a Verge report that the […]
Is the dream of one global internet still alive?
Increasingly, moves by governments to filter and restrict content are threatening to fragment the system created with the promise of connecting the world with a largely unified body of content. China for years has walled off some western services, and the fragmentation may be accelerating with regulations being imposed elsewhere, say analysts. This is leading […]
The ‘freedom to fail’ is imperative for Asia’s future
A CNN Business story from late March revealed China was still trailing the US in cutting-edge technology despite being home to a third of the world’s “unicorns,” or tech startups valued over a billion dollars. This gap, the article explains, is the result of lower Chinese investments in research and development. While this may be […]