meta

The National Data Protection Authority suspended Meta’s privacy policy for using personal data to train generative AI systems in Brazil, effective immediately. The move puts a hold on personal data processing across all Meta products,…

A lot is going on in France these days, not the least of which is the French competition authority's (Autorité de la Concurrence) scrutinization of Nvidia for anti-competitive practices. The authority has already raided Nvidia based on…

The global regulatory climate is heating up, and now, throwing more fuel onto the proverbial fire, India's EU-like antitrust law will be a challenge for tech firms. The challenges center on the proposed "Digital Competition Bill"…

You might be surprised by some of AI's shenanigans. Did you know that many AI systems already deceive humans, even ones trained to be helpful and honest? An article published in the journal Patterns describes how researchers analyze the…

Meta launched a new feature users can talk to: its AI chatbot. Meta AI is available on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The conversational chat window is ready for you to ask questions and generate AI images, similar to…

Like Meta before it, Google is allowing outside programmers to access its AI code—but not the complete powerful system. Google just released the computer code powering its online chatbot, stating that the benefits outweighed the risks of…

Meta and IBM announced an AI Alliance, a coalition of groups pushing for open-sourced artificial intelligence. The international association of corporations, universities, and organizations is committed to open science and technologies. So…

The European Union (EU) has chosen 22 "gatekeeper" services, run by six of the world's largest tech companies, to face new rules as part of its latest crackdown. The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) will apply to services from such companies as…

Meta's fighting against Canada's law requiring it to negotiate with, and pay, news publishers for content. Meta is blocking all news content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada within the next few weeks. Canada’s Online News Act is…

A dedicated private network for real-time services by Subspace was just launched and is available. The network-as-a-service (NaaS) heightens experiences of networks limited by latency and other Internet factors. Targeting such segments as…