Meta's AI tools like Meta AI and Image Generator are gaining popularity, boosting ad conversions, while the company pursues AI advancements like an AI-powered search engine to fuel its metaverse ambitions, contributing to a 19% revenue surge in Q3.
X, recently acquired by Elon Musk's AI company xAI, has updated its developer agreement to prohibit using X's content and API to train large language models, restricting competitors' access to its data for AI training purposes.
Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, alleging unauthorized commercial exploitation of Reddit's user data and content to train Anthropic's AI models without permission or compensation, breaching Reddit's rules and violating users' privacy.
Meta plans to automate up to 90% of risk assessments for new features and updates on its platforms like Facebook and Instagram, replacing human evaluators with AI systems that will determine potential privacy violations, harm to minors, and spread of misinformation, raising concerns about oversight and unintended consequences.
Digg's founders Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian aim to build a social platform focused on authentic human connections in the AI era by verifying users' humanity, compensating creators and moderators, and using AI for moderation while avoiding its misuse for manipulation.
In a groundbreaking deal, Elon Musk's AI company xAI will pay Telegram $300 million to integrate its chatbot Grok into the messaging app, allowing users to access Grok's advanced capabilities for writing, summarizing, and creating content directly within Telegram.
Google Photos celebrates its 10th anniversary with over 1.5 billion monthly users, a redesigned AI-powered editor for Android and iOS, instant album sharing via QR codes, and tools to free up device space by removing backed-up photos while keeping them viewable in the app.
Blake Anderson, a 23-year-old entrepreneur, turned his passion for looksmaxxing and charisma into a $10 million business by creating viral mobile apps like RizzGPT, Umax, and Cal AI using ChatGPT and influencer marketing, all while being self-taught in coding.
Meta knowingly exposed minors to online predators and harmful content on Instagram, with internal reports revealing nearly 2 million underage accounts were recommended to 'groomers' over 3 months despite executives' safety concerns.
Elon Musk announces a return to his intense 24/7 work schedule, sleeping at offices and factories, to focus on X/Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX after global X outages and declining Tesla sales raised investor concerns about operational distractions and his political involvement.