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Artificial intelligence developers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have pledged to bolster security measures to protect children during the development and deployment of AI models. This effort is spearheaded by the nonprofits All Tech Is Human and Thorn, dedicated to child safety.

WhatsApp is testing the Meta AI chatbot among its user base in India and some yet-to-be-revealed regions. Remarkably, more than 500 million of WhatsApp’s 2 billion users worldwide are in India.

Meta is gearing up to roll out its new AI chip, Artemis, in its data centers this year, according to a Reuters report. This development could significantly diminish Meta's dependence on Nvidia processors.

Meta’s Chief Scientist, Yann LeCun, believes that current AI systems are a decade away from achieving any semblance of sentience or common sense.

According to insights from the Wall Street Journal, Meta's ongoing project is a new AI system. They aim to topple established language models, such as GPT-4 and even their own Llama 2. This fresh initiative will center on large-scale text processing and its subsequent scrutiny. The timeline for initiating the model's training is set for 2024.

In his exploration of the $36 billion Horizon Worlds metaverse, video blogger Jarvis Johnson found player activity to be surprisingly sparse. He counted roughly 900 daily English-speaking users. Many of these were children who managed to circumventing the platform's age restrictions. These findings cast serious doubt on Meta's prior claim of 200,000 engaged users every month, hinting at possible exaggeration.

Meta has introduced two new open-source LLMs from its Llama 3 series, available in various parameter configurations (8B/70B). Developers are inviting the global community to actively engage in testing and developers to assist in identifying any potential flaws or critical bugs.

Today, the European Commission has announced the initiation of an investigation into Apple and Alphabet (Google) concerning the alleged illegal preferences extended to their app stores, as reported by the Financial Times.

Meta, overseeing platforms like Facebook and Instagram, is set to implement a policy requiring users to tag all content generated by artificial intelligence. An automatic detection system for identifying such AI-created images, videos, and audio in posts is also in the pipeline.

In her letter to Mark Zuckerberg, U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters voiced apprehension about Meta's consistent push into the cryptocurrency realm.

This offers access to a variety of metaverse services and applications, including digital football, live broadcasts, social interactions, and official digital personas within the metaverse. The 5G super network is situated in Beijing Workers’ Stadium. Furthermore, the Gongtai Meta Universe GTVerse experience center is set to commence internal testing in October.

Meta, previously recognized as Facebook, is working on crafting chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, each endowed with a unique personality. These bots will be capable of engaging in human-like conversations on a wide array of subjects or even emulate certain characters. The first iterations of these chatbots are slated for an official roll-out in September. Their primary role will be to assist in information retrieval or offer suggestions. Currently, the company has chosen not to offer any comments regarding this development.