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Advertisers Worry Facebook May Become X

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Advertising big wigs say they may flee Meta platforms if their brands appear next to toxic content. But where else would they go?

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2024: The Year Reddit Grew Up

Reddit went public this year and is inching towards profitability, a mere 19 years after it was founded, and the future looks bright.

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Elon Musk’s X Just Got More Valuable, Fidelity Says

Ignore the high-profile exodus of users to BlueSky and Meta’s Threads. Elon Musk’s X, née Twitter, might be doing just fine.

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Reddit’s Expansion Hinges on AI Translation and Sprinkling in some Google Magic

Reddit, the world’s newest publicly-traded social media company, intends to chase growth by breaking into new markets.

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Meta To Try Out AI Business Tools as Enterprise Market Heats Up

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A patent for AI chip architecture from Meta could make model development more robust as it builds AI tools for businesses.

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Snap Boosts Digital Ad Platform to Compete with Meta, TikTok

The company’s ad overhaul has largely worked in its favor based on its recent earnings report

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

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

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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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Snap’s Generative AR Patent May Target Developers, Brands

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

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Meta Patent Could Make AI Both Personalized and Private

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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Snap Patent Could Use Your Phone to Make AR Glasses Lighter

For any company developing AR, a sleeker, longer-last form factor is the “end goal,” one expert said.

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Google Social Media Patents Add to YouTube’s AI Upgrade

The filings add to Google’s larger bid to build AI into YouTube’s offerings, though AI could present risks in this context.

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Snap Continues Smart Glasses Push with Energy-Efficient Processing Patent

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The company unveiled a set of specs, as well as a new operating system for them, at its annual Partner Summit last week.

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LinkedIn Deepens Its Facebookification with AI Data Scraping

Reports have surfaced that LinkedIn is quietly opting its users in to data scraping so it can train its large language models.

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

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

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Snap Patent Adds to AR Ad Bet as Meta Shuts Down Spark AR Studio

Snap may want to use AR to help you redeem your next free coffee.

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