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Meta's Threads platform might not be revolutionary, but it poses a challenge to Twitter

The July 5 launch of Threads, Instagram’s new social media platform, has met with considerable interest. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was quick to report that over 100 million users downloaded the app by the end of its first weekend.

The Conversation

Microsoft and Meta expand their AI partnership with Llama 2 on Azure and Windows

Microsoft announced its extended partnership with Meta. The Llama 2 family of large language models (LLMs) will now be supported on Azure and Windows.

Windows Central

Apple Wants to Crash ChatGPT's Party -- Here's Why It Just Might Succeed

Apple, the biggest company in the world, is finally aiming to cash in on the generative AI hype.

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Legendary Trainers Share How Zuckerberg, Musk Should Prepare for Fight

A Zuckerberg-Musk bout seems likely. Freddie Roach and Dicky Eklund Jr. explain what the tech titans could do to shape up.

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Meta AR glasses woes push release to 2027; are smart glasses in trouble?

Technical setbacks with the AR glasses' display has forced Meta to downgrade to a less-advanced option and change the design.

Android Central

Turns out Threads really is like Twitter. Meta's new app just limited the number of posts users can see after Elon Musk's Twitter did the same

Meta said it would limit the number of posts Threads users could see, echoing a widely criticized decision Twitter made weeks earlier.

Fortune

Meta and Qualcomm’s A.I. deal is a major step towards virtual assistants that work for us

A.I.s based on Meta's open-source LLaMa 2 model will be optimized for mobile devices, with less cloud reliance.

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Llama 2: why is Meta releasing open-source AI model and are there any risks?

Possible reasons for release of LLM include potential for diluting rivals’ competitive edge

The Guardian - UK

In an effort to surpass ChatGPT, Meta is open-sourcing its large language AI model

LLaMA 2 is an AI model that will be made open-source as part of a collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

TechRadar

WhatsApp finally comes to smartwatches with official Wear OS app

You can use the new app to send text and voice messages and answer calls

Evening Standard

You can now follow Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Threads

Threads has surged in popularity since it launched. One of its newest users is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Windows Central

Threads' first big update is here, but its must-have feature is still missing

Meta's possible Twitter-killer just got better, but the most requested feature still isn't there

Dow Jones Rises: Highly Shorted Carvana Surges On Guidance, Debt Deal; Tesla, Netflix Earnings Due

The major indexes set fresh 52-week highs as earnings roll in. Carvana spiked on results and a debt restructuring. Tesla and Netflix earnings are on tap.

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Up First briefing: Meta's free AI; Trump's legal troubles; a scary fish's teeth

Facebook's parent company has released its newest AI for free. Trump says he's a target in the Jan. 6 insurrection investigation. An Oklahoma boy finds a piranha-like fish with human-like teeth.

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A.I. is ‘quite stupid,' top exec at Facebook parent company Meta insists

"They literally try and guess the next word in response to a prompt that you give them," Meta's president of global affairs said. "They have no innate autonomous intelligence at all.”

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Threads gets its first major update with a new follow tab, no not that one

Threads has received its first major update with new additions like translations and a follow tab.

The Guardian - UK

Nick Clegg defends release of open-source AI model by Meta

Head of global affairs at Facebook owner claims AI’s development is running behind ‘hype’ about its risks

The Hindu

Today’s Cache | Meta’s ChatGPT rival goes public; Anthropic CEO to testify before Senate; Global smartphone market dips

Meta announced the release of its next generation AI model Llama 2 this week, with Microsoft as its “preferred partner.”

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Meta champions open source A.I., but there's a revealing exception in the fine print

Meta will open source LLaMa 2, but with a license requirement for companies with 700 million monthly active users—an interestingly specific threshold.

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg just made Meta’s A.I. models open source. OpenAI used to do that, until backtracking because it was ‘just not wise’

The company’s newest large language model, Llama 2, will be available for free in the hopes that it will help Meta better evaluate where its vulnerabilities lie.

Investors Business Daily

Dow Jones Futures Rise After Market Rallies On Microsoft AI Push; Netflix, Tesla Earnings On Tap

Microsoft AI pricing fueled the Nasdaq, which is increasingly extended. Netflix and Tesla earnings loom.

The Guardian - US

Meta to make new version of AI model available free of charge on Microsoft

Move gives start-ups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard

Chicago Tribune

Instagram agrees to pay $68.5 million in Illinois biometric privacy settlement

Millions of Illinois Instagram users may be eligible for a cut of a new $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement.

Android Central

Threads, like Twitter, will introduce a rate limit to crack down on spam bots

Threads will look to introduce a rate limit as the platform struggles with aggressive spam bots and attacks.

The Street

Right Wing Politician Targets Mark Zuckerberg Over Twitter Rival, Threads

The rivalry between Twitter and Threads seems to be spreading to the political arena.

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