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Why will Meta’s first HUD glasses only have a display in one eye? An explanation from Meta’s CTO seems to provide the reason. If you haven’t been keeping up with the reports, a wide range of sources suggest that Meta intends to release smart glasses with a small heads-up display (HUD) this year, codenamed Hypernova, controlled by finger gestures from …

Meta‘s upcoming smart glasses with a built-in display, codenamed Hypernova, could be cheaper than we initially thought. In April, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the company is working on a new type of smart glasses, which will look a lot like a regular pair but equipped with a tiny display that can show photos and apps. That report claimed the …

When Google Glass came stumbling onto the scene in 2013, people were taken aback. Not only did Google’s smart glasses, with their bordering-on-novel camera, present new and somewhat icky questions about personal privacy, but they also crossed an even more controversial line: they looked really, really dorky. Fast forward more than 10 years into the future, and all of those …

Zuckerberg Plans Another Overhaul of Meta’s A.I. Efforts  The New York Times Meta Restructures AI Group Again in Pursuit of Superintelligence  Bloomberg.com How Meta Became Uniquely Toxic for Top AI Talent  New York Magazine Meta plans fourth restructuring of AI efforts in six months, The Information reports  Reuters Meta plans to announce another AI shakeup, NY Times reports  TipRanks Source link

Neil Young is unfriending Facebook. In light of reports that Meta allegedly enabled AI chatbots to engage with minors in “romantic” and “sensual” ways, the rocker’s team released a statement on his profile announcing his decision to leave the platform Thursday (Aug. 14). “At Neil Young’s request, we are no longer using Facebook for any Neil Young related activities,” reads …

Senator Begins Child Safety Investigation Into Meta’s A.I. Bot  The New York Times Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info  Reuters Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report  CNBC Neil Young Quits Facebook Over Meta’s ‘Unconscionable’ Use of Chatbots With Children  Rolling Stone Meta faces backlash over AI policy that …

Photo: Norbert Grisay / Hans Lucas / AFP By Jeff Horwitz, Reuters Meta’s generative-AI guidelines allow bots to claim they’re real Family warns of AI dangers for vulnerable individuals Meta updates guidelines on chats with children in wake of Reuters’ questions When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife …

Meta’s consumer VR headsets are already among the best you can get for their price points, but at a conference next week, the company is showing off some impressive-sounding research prototypes that could be a peek at what its headsets might be capable of in the future. One headset, called “Tiramisu,” brings a “new milestone for realism in VR,” Meta …

Would you want your chats with AI to show up in a Google search? I wouldn’t! OpenAI’s ChatGPT raised some eyebrows this week when people realized that certain chats were able to be found by Google search. Although people had checked a box to share the chats publicly, it seemed likely that not everyone understood what they were doing. On …

Meta is still going all-in on the AI talent war, with Mark Zuckerberg reportedly reaching out to top recruits himself, throwing around jaw-dropping compensation packages that top $1 billion over multiple years. And Meta’s latest target? Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machines Lab. It’s a bold play in an already overheated market. While Zuck eyes new talent, Anthropic is preparing …