Topline Meta smashed Wall Street’s expectations again in its first-quarter earnings report Wednesday afternoon, but it said it expects growth to slow considerably, which sent its stock spiraling. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cheers at a UFC event in February Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Key Facts Meta brought in $36.46 billion in sales during the …
A Russian military court sentenced spokesperson Andy Stone in absentia to six years in prison for “publicly defending terrorism,” Reuters reports. Stone’s lawyer reportedly asked for an acquittal and there are plans to appeal the sentence. A few months after Russian officials placed him on a wanted list and started a criminal investigation, a Moscow …
In a surprise move, Meta has revealed that it’s opening the Quest’s operating system to third-party VR headset manufacturers. This means that Quest OS will be available to third-party VR headset makers like Asus and Lenovo. The move shifts Meta’s Quest headset from offering an Apple-like closed ecosystem to a more open Android-inspired model, where …
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Meta has dramatically upgraded its AI assistant, powered by the new Llama 3 language model. The enhanced Meta AI is available on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and its new standalone website. Meta also announced the rollout of an upgraded image generator, where images change in real-time as you type …
Meta’s Threads app is often described as the company’s competitor to X. But Threads users, especially those once active on Twitter, are often quick to point out that Meta’s app is not yet a great source for real-time information. The app’s “for you” algorithm often surfaces days-old posts alongside fresh ones, and its recently introduced …
On Friday, people around the web noticed a new addition to their Instagram: Meta AI, the company’s general-purpose, AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry and generate images with a simple text prompt. The move isn’t surprising. Meta revealed Meta AI in September 2023 and has spent the last few months adding the chatbot …
Meta AI is consistently unable to generate accurate images for seemingly simple prompts like “Asian man and Caucasian friend,” or “Asian man and white wife,” The Verge . Instead, the company’s image generator seems to be biased toward creating images of people of the same race, even when explicitly prompted otherwise. Engadget confirmed these results …
For the second time in just over a month, Meta’s apps including WhatsApp, and possibly Messenger and Instagram, are facing outages and intermittent issues. While it’s rare for services as large as those operated by Meta to go down entirely, Meta’s status page details disruptions to key business services, including its Ads Manager, Messenger Platform, WhatsApp …
Four of Ontario’s largest school boards are taking some of the leading social media giants to court for “disrupting” students’ learning through “exploitative business practices.” The public school boards of Toronto, Peel, Ottawa-Carleton and the Toronto Catholic board have filed lawsuits in excess of $4.5 billion against Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. According …
Meta is failing to enforce its own rules against anti-trans hate speech on its platform, a new report from GLAAD warns. The LGBTQ advocacy group found that “extreme anti-trans hate content remains widespread across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.” The report documents dozens of examples of hate speech from Meta’s apps, which GLAAD says were reported …