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Meta plans fourth AI overhaul in six months
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Meta to launch AI chatbot for young users

Meta is getting ready to introduce a generative AI chatbot intended at younger users that will be termed “Gen AI Personas” internally, The Wall Street Journal reported. Following ChatGPT’s rise over the past year as one of the fastest-growing apps ever, the many “personas” aimed at enticing youthful users with more colourful behaviour. A “sassy […]

Meta launches AI voice translation on Facebook, Instagram
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Meta rolls out verification badges for businesses

Meta on Wednesday announced that it is now opening up verification badges to businesses after initially introducing Meta Verified to creators. The company is initially piloting the verification programme on Facebook and Instagram with retailers in a few specific regions, but it hopes to push it out to businesses on WhatsApp in the future. A […]

Mark Zuckerberg, wife launches initiative to study human cells with AI
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Mark Zuckerberg, wife launches initiative to study human cells with AI

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerbeg and his wife, Priscilla Chan has announced a philanthropic initiative to study human cells and diseases utilising artificial intelligence will be developed by computing system. The field of biological sciences has been utilising AI for some time. Among the well-known platforms, Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold can forecast protein structures, while Nvidia’s RadImageGAN, […]

Meta introduces message summaries to WhatsApp
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Meta to expand WhatsApp Channels beyond 150 countries

Meta announced on Wednesday, that it would soon make WhatsApp Channels, a broadcast service that allows users to follow thought leaders, sports teams, and celebrities, available in more than 150 countries. The action is being taken as Meta works to strengthen engagement across all of its social media applications and establish them as key hubs […]

Meta tests in-house AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia
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Meta to remove Facebook news from UK, others

Meta on Tuesday said that it would discontinue Facebook News in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France beginning in the first few days of December. The social media company stated that it was part of its “ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value the most.” For those who […]

Meta launches AI voice translation on Facebook, Instagram
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Faceebook adamant on ban as Canada unveils new rules

Canada said it was addressing the concerns of digital corporations when it revealed new regulations for a law requiring internet giants to pay news organisations on Friday. Facebook declared that it would continue its efforts to censor local news. Canada said that the proposed regulations, which are intended to put the recently approved Online News […]

Instagram cuts 60 jobs
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Instagram tests longer Reels

Instagram is internally testing the capacity to produce Reels that are up to 10 minutes long, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday. The social media giant claims that it is not testing the capacity, however Alessandro Paluzzi, a reverse engineer, revealed photos of the internal prototype where the feature was first discovered. Reels’ time limit would be […]

Meta tests in-house AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia
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Meta links China with “Spamouflage” operation

Facebook’s parent company, Meta on Tuesday announced that it had discovered connections between members of the Chinese law enforcement community and the “Spamouflage” influence operation. According to a quarterly security report, the social media giant erased over 7,700 Facebook accounts, as well as hundreds of other pages, groups, and Instagram accounts linked to the campaign, […]

Threads introduces edit button
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Threads launches web version

Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter as the preferred platform for celebrities, businesses, and governments, is now accessible on the web. The most active users of social media during work hours are thought to be professionals and members of the media, thus a web version of Threads is viewed as essential to luring them in. “Threads.net […]

Meta to shut down Facebook Messenger Lite September
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Meta to shut down Facebook Messenger Lite September

Meta is discontinuing Messenger Lite, their lightweight, simplified version of Messenger, according to TechCrunch. “use Messenger to keep chatting” messages have started appearing for users alerting them to switch to Messenger. For new users, the app has been taken down from the Google Play Store, and it won’t be accessible to current users after September […]

Meta to launch end-to-end encryption on Messenger
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Meta to launch end-to-end encryption on Messenger

Meta on Wednesday disclosed that the company will enable end-to-end encryption will be enabled on Messenger by the end of the year. Additionally, the company is extending the scope of its end-to-end encryption feature test to “millions more people’s chats.” For years, the business has been constructing end-to-end encryption features for Messenger. But the majority […]

Manufacturers warn price hikes to persist without solutions
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Raw materials import hits N8trn amid naira slump

Manufacturers have spent at least N7.9 trillion on raw materials imports in the last three years. According to The Punch, manufacturers claim that the high cost of imported raw materials is a result of operators’ choice to obtain foreign currency at exorbitant rates from the parallel market as a result of a lack of FX […]