Meta Launches Undersea Cable Project ‘Longer Than Earth’s Circumference’

Facebook owner Meta has announced an ambitious plan to build the longest undersea cable network that will reach five major continents and span over 50,000 km which is longer than the Earth’s circumference. Dubbed Project Waterworth, it will be the world’s longest underwater cable project and would provide ‘industry-leading connectivity’ and help support artificial intelligence … Read more

Scarlett Johansson raises Deepfake issue again, this time over F*** You Kanye West video

Scarlett Johansson is calling on the US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), following the spread of an unauthorised, AI-generated video featuring her and other Jewish people, including a bunch of tech CEOs and executives. What is the AI video that Scarlett Johansson has slammed The video, which has gone viral on social media, begins … Read more

Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards

Consider two recent events. On December 2nd directors of Intel sacked its hapless chief executive, Pat Gelsinger. He had torched $150bn in shareholder value over his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the chipmaker, even as the fortunes of virtually all other chip firms were boosted by white-hot demand for computing power amid the artificial-intelligence (AI) revolution. Good … Read more

Why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Was Almost Sentenced To Death In Pakistan

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, recently shared a harrowing experience during an interview with Joe Rogan, revealing that he was once at risk of being sentenced to death in Pakistan due to content posted on Facebook. This startling admission came amid ongoing legal battles between Meta and the Pakistani government, which has accused the … Read more

Facebook employees used Torrent to download 81.7TB of data to train its LLaMA: Court papers

Meta, Facebook‘s parent company, faces a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition in training its LLaMA AI model, according to court records revealed by vx-underground on X. First reported by Tom’s Hardware, vx-underground’s post on Twitter claims how court documents from February 5th, 2024, in Kadrey v. Meta show Meta (formerly Facebook) … Read more

Layoffs start at Meta, what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told employees about ‘4000 job cuts’

Facebook parent company Meta has begun notifying employees of a 5% workforce reduction, potentially impacting nearly 4,000 jobs in the US, Europe and Asia, even as it reportedly appears to be bolstering its engineering teams by ‘expediting recruiting’ in key areas.According to a report by Business Insider, Meta is actively recruiting engineers, particularly those specialising … Read more

Meta To Start Layoffs Globally From Next Week: Report

New York: Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to carry out its expected company-wide layoffs next week while pushing ahead with the expedited hiring of machine learning engineers, it told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters on Friday. Notices will go out to employees losing their jobs starting at 5 a.m. local time Monday in … Read more

Microsoft, Meta Back Big AI Spending Despite DeepSeek’s Low Costs

Days after Chinese startup DeepSeek’s breakthrough low-cost AI computing shook the US technology industry, CEOs of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending saying it was crucial to staying competitive in the new field. DeepSeek’s quick advances with models that it claimed can match or even outperform Western rivals at a fraction of the cost stirred … Read more

Nvidia GeForce Now Update Adds Support for Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 and Pico 4 Ultra

Nvidia GeForce Now — the cloud gaming service from the California-based tech giant — is now supported on mixed reality headsets. Gamers can now access several popular titles that can be played via a browser on AR headsets from companies like Apple, Meta, and ByteDance, at up to 4K/ 120fps. Users will need a 15Mbps … Read more

Meta AI Is Getting a New Memory Feature and Personalised Recommendations

Meta AI is getting a couple of new upgrades, the company announced on Monday. Meta wants its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to offer a more personalised experience to users, and the two new features will enable it to learn more about users. The first is a memory feature that will allow the chatbot to remember … Read more