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Australia Wants to Boot Kids off Social Media. Meta Says: Make Apple and Google Do It.

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Last week, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the government plans to introduce a law banning children from social media.

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Patent Drop

Meta’s Costly Reality Labs Bet May be a ‘Test Bed’ for AR Glasses

Peripheral devices add another layer of friction onto the experience that stands to turn off users.

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Big Tech

Meta Readies AI Search Engine to End Reliance on Google, OpenAI

Meta is developing an artificial intelligence-based search engine to stake its claim in a rapidly growing market.

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Patent Drop

Snap’s Generative AR Patent May Target Developers, Brands

But Meta’s AI may have Snap’s beat “just in sheer volume” of data, one expert said.

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Patent Drop

Meta Patent Could Make AI Both Personalized and Private

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Tech like this could keep Meta’s models from prompt attack data slips — or at least give it some “thought leadership brownie points.”

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Big Tech

Meta’s Losing AR Developers to Snap

Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Meta is bleeding third-party augmented reality developers to its rival, Snap.

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Patent Drop

Google Patent Highlights Costs and Benefits of Generative AI Video

Tons of companies are racing to build an AI video generation engine that actually works.

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Meta Patent Seeks to Track Users’ ‘Biopotential’ Signals

While wrist-worn controllers may be the next frontier of artificial reality technology, it’s likely not the end goal for AR control.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI is Passing the First Stage of its Antitrust Era

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It’s not a hallucination: Artificial intelligence companies have actually managed to placate at least one national regulator.

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Patent Drop

Meta Could Face Cost Obstacles in AR Glasses Goals

Though artificial reality took center stage at Meta Connect, the company faces headwinds in making AR glasses an everyday reality.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can Voice Assistants Make a Comeback in the Age of AI?

Once upon a time, the biggest prestige battle in Silicon Valley was who had the best voice assistant. Then came ChatGPT.

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Big Tech

Meta Sets New Limits for Teenage Instagram Users

Meta will roll out a feature to place teenaged users into a new type of account with beefed-up privacy settings and parental controls.

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Patent Drop

Meta Neural Network Patent Showcases AI’s Place in Artificial Reality Bet

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The company’s access to data gives the power to create AR features that are “pretty sophisticated,” one expert said.

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Patent Drop

Meta Glucose Measurement Patent May Face Data-Collection Obstacles

A recent Meta patent aims to measure your glucose through light reflections in your eyes.

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Meta Patent Uses AI, AR to Guide Users with Sensory Impairments

Meta’s recent patent aims to guide people with sensory impairments using an AI agent — but viable and long-lasting smart glasses may be difficult to achieve.

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Technology

Can Meta’s Threads Power the ‘Fediverse’ into the Mainstream?

Threads’ user count is a big deal for the federation of decentralized but interconnected social networks — the fediverse — it’s part of.

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