The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
…On top of that, Meta’s glasses are equipped with potentially invasive AI services—already, the Meta app that runs on the device can collect your videos for further AI training—that…
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Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
…The move comes after Meta made widespread cuts to its Reality Labs division in February, laying off 10 percent of employees in its VR department. Horizon Worlds was Meta’s grand foray…
Meta Cafeteria Workers Did What Execs Won’t: Took on ICE and Won
…While better pay is a top demand, immigration raids have also fueled the organizing among Meta contractors. In their collective bargaining agreements, unionized workers for cafeterias inside Microsoft, Google, and other Meta…
Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR ‘for the Foreseeable Future’
…The move came after Meta’s announcement in February that it is shifting investments away from its metaverse and VR efforts and laying off 10 percent of employees in its VR division…
The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
…Experts say that Meta's decision about Instagram chat could give other companies, or even simply other divisions within Meta, permission to do less, too. “Meta's deployment of encryption was a…
Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems
…OpenAI, for example, has also said it’s partnering with Broadcom to build custom accelerators, following a path similar to Meta’s. Earlier this year, Meta was reported to be scaling back…
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
…The account protections Meta debuted on Wednesday include expanding its Messenger scam detection features for more users around the world, introducing warnings about potentially suspicious activity when a user is initiating a…
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
…Mercor contractors were not told exactly why their Meta projects were being paused. In a Slack channel related to the Chordus initiative—a Meta-specific project to teach AI models to use…
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
…Today on the show, we're discussing the complete meltdown over mass layoffs at Meta. We spoke to more than a dozen employees, and it turns out the job cuts are far…
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
The message aimed to rally support for a petition circulating inside the company since last Thursday that demands an end to what Meta calls the Model Capability Initiative. It’s a piece…