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Meta is a technology company that operates social platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Horizon.
So it's not open source, you can't download it, but is it any good? It's a good question, because if it's not, Meta's shareholders might start to wonder why the company is so keen to light $135 billion on fire. If Meta is to be believed, Muse Spark is a big improvement over Llama 4. The model boasts performance matching and in many cases besting the top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. But before you read too far into these benchmark numbers, remember that they're coming from a company that not that long ago was accused of pulling a bait-and-switch in order to make Llama 4 look bette
Meta's new model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school… Leaving the metaverse Meta’s march toward AI came in the same week as it walked away from the metaverse, its vision for immersive online communities. On Wednesday, the company announced the shutdown of Horizon Worlds, its metaverse platform. …
… MORE CONTEXT Meta's latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers “That's not like, okay, in 2026, the ROI … …
… The Board said it is “concerning” that “Meta did not identify on its own initiative the clear engagement abuse signals from the page” and said the company’s mechanisms for flagging fake videos “are neither robust nor comprehensive enough to contend with the scale and velocity of AI-generated conten… …
… It's a good question, because if it's not, Meta's shareholders might start to wonder why the company is so keen to light $135 billion on fire. If Meta is to be believed, Muse Spark is a big improvement over Llama 4. …
… A similar operation in December resulted in the removal of 59,000 accounts, pages, and groups from Meta's platforms and six arrest warrants. …
… Meta's hiring of Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr was first reported by Axios, which claims to have seen an internal memo from Meta's VP of AI products, Vishal Shah, to employees informing them of the move. …
… He thinks Fortnite’s success shows another idea about the metaverse – that it would become a place to live out daily life – has also proven incorrect. “It’s quite easy to get carried away thinking about how cool it would be to actually build a system that could, on an engineering level, do the thin…
On-Prem Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker Former British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec … …
… Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll Australia’s eSafety Commission is “moving into an enforcement stance” after finding th… …
… "Notably, these renamed binaries retain their original PE Portable Executable metadata, including the OriginalFileName field which still identifies them as curl.exe and bitsadmin.exe," Microsoft's researchers wrote in a Tuesday blog. …