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Meta ending fact-checking program: Zuckerberg — The Hill
Social media giant Meta announced a series of changes to its content moderation policies Tuesday, including the elimination of its fact-checking program; writes Miranda...
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies — CNN
Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails and even lie in chats with humans; writes Allison Morrow.
Scale raises $1B
San Francisco-based data foundry startup Scale has raised $1 billion in a Series F financing round, pegging the company at a $13.8 billion valuation.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will offer its virtual reality OS to hardware companies, creating iPhone versus Android dynamic — CNBC
Meta will partner with external hardware companies, including Lenovo, Microsoft and Asus, to build virtual reality headsets using the company’s Meta Horizon operating system, writes Kif Leswing.
Meta releases Llama 3 language models
Meta has announced the release of the first two models of its next-generation Llama language model series, Llama 3.