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Meta Defends Llama 4 Release, Cites Bugs as Cause of Mixed Quality Reports

Over the weekend, Meta, the powerhouse behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Quest VR, surprised everyone by unveiling their latest AI language model, Llama 4. Not just one, but three new versions were introduced, each boasting enhanced capabilities thanks to the "Mixture-of-Experts" architectur

BillyAdams

Apr 23. 2025 at 06:04 am

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Law Professors Support Authors in AI Copyright Battle Against Meta

A group of copyright law professors has thrown their support behind authors suing Meta, alleging that the tech giant trained its Llama AI models on e-books without the authors' consent. The professors filed an amicus brief on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,

PaulJohnson

Apr 22. 2025 at 11:41 pm

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Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data

Meta has recently revealed its plans to train its AI using data from EU users of its platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram. This initiative will tap into public posts, comments, and even chat histories with Meta AI, but rest assured, your private messages with friends and family are off-limits.

AlbertDavis

Apr 20. 2025 at 11:05 pm

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Hacked Crosswalk Buttons Feature Simulated Voices of Musk and Zuckerberg

Crosswalk Buttons in California Cities Hacked with AI-Generated Voices In a bizarre twist over the weekend, crosswalk buttons in at least three California cities were tampered with, featuring what seem to be AI-generated voices of tech moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Videos circulating online

JackSanchez

Apr 18. 2025 at 09:04 pm

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Meta to Train AI Models with EU User Data

Meta has recently announced its intention to harness the public content shared by adult users in the European Union (EU) to enhance its AI models. This move comes on the heels of launching Meta AI features across Europe, aiming to tailor its AI capabilities more closely to the region's diverse popul

AlbertRoberts

Apr 18. 2025 at 10:23 am

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Meta Begins Training AI Models on EU Public Content

On Monday, Meta announced a significant shift in its AI strategy within the European Union, revealing plans to train its AI models using public posts and comments from Facebook and Instagram. This decision comes after a temporary halt due to regulatory concerns about data privacy. Starting this week

RalphMitchell

Apr 18. 2025 at 10:03 am

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Google, Apple, and Snap Express Displeasure Over Meta's Poorly-Redacted Slides

Today's antitrust trial involving Meta took a contentious turn when lawyers from Apple, Google, and Snap voiced their frustrations over a set of slides presented by Meta on Monday. These slides, which The Verge discovered had easily removable redactions, drew sharp criticism from the attorneys. Both

JuanJackson

Apr 17. 2025 at 07:22 pm

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Meta Unveils Llama 4 with Long Context Scout and Maverick Models, 2T Parameter Behemoth Coming Soon!

Back in January 2025, the AI world was rocked when a relatively unknown Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, threw down the gauntlet with their groundbreaking open-source language reasoning model, DeepSeek R1. This model not only outperformed the likes of Meta but did so at a fraction of the cost—rumored t

HenryWalker

Apr 16. 2025 at 08:20 pm

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Open-Source AI Fights Back with Meta's Llama 4 Release

In recent years, the AI landscape has transformed from a realm of open collaboration to one where proprietary systems reign supreme. Even OpenAI, a company that started with "open" in its name, shifted to keeping its most powerful models under wraps after 2019. Other players like Anthropic and Googl

PatrickLewis

Apr 15. 2025 at 07:08 pm

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Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward

A federal judge has decided to allow a copyright lawsuit against Meta to proceed, though he dismissed a portion of the case. In the lawsuit titled Kadrey vs. Meta, authors such as Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates claim that Meta infringed on their intellectual property by using

MichaelDavis

Apr 14. 2025 at 10:00 am

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Nvidia’s new Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra outperforms DeepSeek R1 at half the size

While Meta grapples with the scrutiny surrounding its latest Llama 4 model family, Nvidia has quietly rolled out a new, fully open-source large language model (LLM) based on Meta's earlier Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct model. Named Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1, this model boasts 253 billion parameters

LarryMartinez

Apr 13. 2025 at 09:58 am

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Meta Unveils LlamaCon: First AI Dev Conference

Meta just dropped some big news: they're throwing their first-ever developer conference all about generative AI, and they're calling it LlamaCon. It's happening on April 29, and they're super excited to spill the beans on their latest open-source AI stuff. They want to help developers whip up some c

SamuelRoberts

Apr 10. 2025 at 09:01 pm

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