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Meta Races to Launch Latest Llama AI Model by Year-End, Sources Say

Meta Races to Launch Latest Llama AI Model by Year-End, Sources Say

Meta is racing to ship its next-generation Llama AI model by the end of the year in one of the first projects to emerge from the newly formed unit Meta Superintelligence Labs. A team within TBD, one of four groups part of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), is developing Llama 4.X, with the aim of getting the models production-ready in time …

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Pure Storage Stock (PSTG) Rises 30% on News of Meta Platforms Deal

Pure Storage Stock (PSTG) Rises 30% on News of Meta Platforms Deal

Shares of Pure Storage (PSTG) are up 30% on Aug. 28 and pacing for a record close after the data storage firm announced a new deal with technology giant Meta Platforms (META). Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. …

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These Smart Glasses Have Something That Meta Ray-Ban Owners Desperately Want

These Smart Glasses Have Something That Meta Ray-Ban Owners Desperately Want

Meta might be the splashiest purveyor of smart glasses out there, but Zuck’s house isn’t alone in chasing AR eyewear. In fact, if you want a pair of smart glasses with a display in them—frames that are technically more advanced than Meta’s Ray-Bans—you can buy one right now, and upstarts like Rokid are among the few offering that in the …

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Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race

There’s a reason the first successful smart specs look like they’re from the 1950s. That extra thickness isn’t just retro flair, it’s hiding a processor and a battery. But that technical constraint creates a creative opportunity: In the right frame, smart tech can disappear. And transforming functional, medical-grade eyewear—like prescription glasses—into stylish, mass-market fashion accessories is exactly what EssilorLuxotica does …

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Meta to Debut Smart Glasses at September’s ‘Connect’ Event

Meta to Debut Smart Glasses at September’s ‘Connect’ Event

Meta reportedly plans to introduce its new smart glasses at next month’s “Connect” conference. Those glasses, Meta’s first to feature a consumer-ready display, will be announced at the annual conference along with a wristband that lets users control the glasses via hand gestures, CNBC reported Friday (Aug. 22), citing sources familiar with the matter. The glasses, codenamed “Hypernova” inside Meta, …

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Former Meta exec Nick Clegg offers careful criticism of ‘cloyingly conformist’ Silicon Valley

Former Meta exec Nick Clegg offers careful criticism of ‘cloyingly conformist’ Silicon Valley

Meta’s former policy chief Nick Clegg seems to be walking a tightrope as he promotes his upcoming book, “How to Save the Internet.” Unlike certain other Meta employee memoirs, “How to Save the Internet” doesn’t sound like a tell-all or a scathing critique. And in an interview with the Guardian, Clegg (who previously led the U.K.’s Liberal Democrats) seems to …

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Meta is sinking $10 billion into Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the grid buildout

Meta is sinking  billion into Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the grid buildout

On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres of reddish clay earth. This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. Enter Meta—the sixth-largest company …

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Meta Partners with Midjourney to Support AI Power Across Apps

Meta Partners with Midjourney to Support AI Power Across Apps

Meta Platforms (META), the social network giant, has entered into a licensing agreement with one of the prominent text-to-image generative AI companies, Midjourney. The deal gives Meta access to Midjourney’s image technology for future models and products. In addition, Meta said the agreement will link the research teams of both companies to share knowledge and improve product design. During Friday’s …

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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone’s camera roll – how to check and turn it off

Meta might be secretly scanning your phone’s camera roll – how to check and turn it off

Why is Facebook cloud-processing my device’s camera roll? Meta is uploading and analyzing your camera roll photos and videos, even ones you haven’t posted, in its cloud in order to generate AI-powered suggestions like collages, monthly recaps, themed albums, or AI-restyled versions of your images. Where is this feature being tested? Meta has confirmed the feature is a test, saying, …

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