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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Meta, has unveiled a new version of AI glasses with a starting price of $799: the Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band. Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can check messages, preview photos, […]
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg released the following letter last week about his vision for Superintelligence and AI at Meta: Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight. It seems […]
RICHLAND PARISH, LA. – Earlier this month, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry joined Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development (LED) Susan Bourgeois in announcing Facebook and Instagram parent company, Meta, will build a massive $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana, a transformational investment that cements the state’s status as a major innovation hub and […]
SAN FRANCISCO — VISO TRUST, a provider of AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM), announced the closing of its latest funding round of $7 million in additional funding, bringing the total raised to $24 million, with participation from both existing investors, Bain Capital Ventures, Work-Bench, Sierra Ventures, and Lytical Ventures, and new investors, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Cisco Investments, EnvisionX […]
CUPERTINO and MUMBAI, India — OneCell Diagnostics, a genomics-based precision oncology company, has raised $16 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Celesta Capital, with participation from Tenacity Ventures, Cedars Sinai, Eragon, and Singularity Ventures. The funding will be used to advance its vision of democratizing precision oncology through cancer diagnostic testing that is […]
Research firm Comscore has released its rankings of the Top 25 most used mobile apps for the month of May 2024. # Apps Total Unique Visitors (000) % Reach 1 YouTube (Mobile App) 163,024 75 2 Facebook (Mobile App) 143,832 66 3 Gmail (Mobile App) 143,131 66 4 Google Search (Mobile App) 138,184 63 5 […]
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent company Meta, has gone hydrofoiling again. One of the world’s richest men, Zuckerberg posted new video on Instagram over Memorial Day weekend with his wife Priscilla and crew hydrofoiling on the waters of Kauai, where he owns a large compound. Zuck said this was his first time on the […]
ATLANTA – Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former diversity program manager at Facebook and Nike, has been sentenced for stealing more than $5 million based on an elaborate scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fictitious paperwork, and cash kickbacks. “Furlow-Smiles shamelessly violated her position of trust as a DEI executive at Facebook to steal millions from the company utilizing […]
Google remains the most popular website in the United States according to data for March 24 from research firm Comscore. The rankings are based on Desktop, Mobile, and Social visitors. Google remains in the top spot followed by Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon. # Property Unique Visitors/Viewers (000) % Reach 1 Google Sites 278,198 100 […]
Meta, parent of Facebook, is launching Meta AI built with Llama 3, already on your phone, in your pocket for free. And it’s starting to go global with more features. You can use Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger to get things done, learn, create and connect with the things that matter to […]
Loredana Crisan, Head of Messenger for Meta, wrote the following notice on the company’s website: I’m delighted to announce that we are rolling out default end-to-end encryption for personal messages and calls on Messenger and Facebook, as well as a suite of new features that let you further control your messaging experience. We take our […]
ATLANTA – Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former global diversity executive at Facebook, has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $4 million from the company utilizing an elaborate scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fictitious charges, and cash kickbacks. “This defendant abused a position of a trust as a global diversity executive for Facebook to defraud the company of […]