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Yann LeCun criticized Meta's hiring of young AI researcher Alexandr Wang, calling him inexperienced and predicting more departures from Meta's AI team, amid internal frustrations and setbacks with AI projects like Llama.
Yann LeCun criticized Meta's hiring of young AI researcher Alexandr Wang, calling him inexperienced and questioning Meta's focus on large language models, predicting more AI employee departures and expressing skepticism about the company's AI strategy.
Most AI companies, including Meta, keep detailed files on user interactions to improve services and personalize experiences, but this data can also be used for targeted advertising. Users can test their data privacy by asking their chatbots to roast them based on chat history, which indicates how well the AI knows them.
Nebius reported a larger-than-expected Q3 net income loss of nearly $120 million amid revenue growth and announced a $3 billion AI compute infrastructure deal with Meta Platforms, while also raising capital through an equity offering. Despite the loss, its stock rose 6.2%, supported by significant revenue growth and strategic partnerships in AI cloud services.
WhatsApp has introduced new features including sharing Live and Motion Photos, customizable chat themes with Meta AI, new sticker packs, easier group search, document scanning on Android, and AI-generated video call backgrounds to enhance user experience.
The Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 glasses offer significant improvements in battery life and video resolution over the first generation, with new features like slow motion and hyperlapse videos, but retain some of the original's design and performance limitations, while promising future updates and integrations.
The Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) and Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses feature identical hardware with upgraded cameras, longer battery life, and new video capabilities, but differ in style, customization, and fit, making the choice depend on personal style preferences and specific outdoor needs.
The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses offer a practical, discreet smart glasses experience with a single, sharp display on one lens, intuitive gesture controls via a wristband, and features like notifications, video calls, and live captions, marking a significant step toward everyday wearable tech, priced at $799.
Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses are now available for preorder, featuring improved battery life and video quality over the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, with shipping starting next week. These screenless glasses include a camera, microphones, speakers, and Meta AI, and come in various colors and lens options, with regular editions priced from $400.
Meta's researchers report observing their AI systems improving themselves without human input, marking a step toward artificial superintelligence (ASI), which could surpass human intelligence and lead to an exponential 'intelligence explosion.' CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasizes caution in releasing such powerful models to the public, highlighting the potential for transformative progress and personal empowerment through superintelligence.
Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses are an evolution of Meta's previous models, offering improved video stabilization, longer battery life, stylish design, and Oakley-specific lenses, making them the best Meta smart glasses to date, though at a higher price and with some comfort and water resistance limitations.
Meta AI allows users to share their chat conversations publicly, which are then indexed by Google and can appear in search results. Unlike ChatGPT, which recently stopped indexing shared chats due to privacy concerns, Meta continues to allow Google to index these public chats, raising privacy questions. Users are warned about the public nature of shared chats, but some personal information has still been found in the shared content. The feature's implications for privacy and user understanding remain uncertain.
Facebook is testing a feature that uses Meta AI to generate content ideas from users' camera rolls, with opt-in options and assurances that media won't be used for ad targeting or AI training, though concerns about privacy remain.
Facebook is requesting access to users' camera rolls to suggest AI-edited photos, including unshared images, through a feature that uploads media to Meta's cloud for AI processing. Users can opt in or out via settings, but agreeing to this grants Meta broad rights to analyze and retain personal media, raising privacy concerns amid Meta's AI ambitions.
Facebook is requesting access to users' camera rolls to suggest AI-edited photos, including unshared images, raising privacy concerns about data analysis and storage under Meta’s AI Terms of Service, as part of its broader AI ambitions.