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EU Investigates Facebook and Instagram Over Addictive Effects on Children

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By: Adam Satariano
16 May 2024 at 14:13
The American tech giant’s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, may β€œexploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors,” the European Commission said.

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β€œWe are sparing no effort to protect our children,” Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal markets commissioner, said in a statement.

On Instagram, a Jewelry Ad Draws Solicitations for Sex With a 5-Year-Old

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By: Michael H. Keller and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
13 May 2024 at 10:51
Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired about a child model.

Β© Illustration by Amir Hamja/The New York Times

Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

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By: Mike Isaac
24 April 2024 at 18:31
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

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Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.

The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg

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By: Vanessa Friedman
24 April 2024 at 13:52
The robotic nerd depicted in β€œThe Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?

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Mark Zuckerberg arriving in Seoul in February in an Overland shearling jacket

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps

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By: Mike Isaac and Cade Metz
18 April 2024 at 12:00
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

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Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?

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By: Sapna Maheshwari and Mike Isaac
15 April 2024 at 12:19
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

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The Creator A.I. program expands on Meta’s earlier efforts to incorporate a cast of A.I. avatars built using the likenesses of celebrities.

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

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By: Cade Metz， Cecilia Kang， Sheera Frenkel， Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
8 April 2024 at 22:50
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

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Researchers at OpenAI’s office in San Francisco developed a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to amass conversational text for A.I. development.
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