Alamo Drafthouse will not implement Meta’s new Movie Mate technology during the April 30 nationwide rerelease of Blumhouse’s “M3GAN,” Variety reports. The specialty theater chain confirmed it will maintain its strict no-phones policy despite Universal’…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered resetting all Facebook users’ friend connections to boost the platform’s declining relevance, according to internal emails revealed Monday in a landmark FTC antitrust trial. In a 2022 message to executives, Zuckerber…

An anonymous reader shares a report: An attorney for the Federal Trade Commission told a judge that Facebook, fearing the competitive threat of Instagram posted to their social media network, acquired both as a way to “neutralize” the rival. “They deci…

Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its “Maverick” AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 “on all benchmarks… This thing is a beast.”
And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even M…

A former Facebook employee/whistleblower alleges Meta’s AI model Lllama was used to help DeepSeek.

The whistleblower — former Facebook director of global policy Sarah Wynn-Williams — testified before U.S. Senators on Wednesday. CBS News f…

Meta says in its Llama 4 release announcement that it’s specifically addressing “left-leaning” political bias in its AI model, distinguishing this effort from traditional bias concerns around race, gender, and nationality that researchers have long doc…

Meta is partnering with Blumhouse to launch “Movie Mate” technology that encourages moviegoers to use their phones during theatrical screenings, beginning with an April 30 showing of “Megan” at Blumhouse’s “Halfway to Halloween Film Festival.” Accordin…

Meta released two new Llama 4 models over the weekend — Scout and Maverick — with claims that Maverick outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash on benchmarks. Maverick quickly secured the number-two spot on LMArena, behind only Gemini 2.5 Pro.

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