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Meta has released AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that allows generating music and sounds based on text prompts. AudioCraft consists of three AI models, each of which solves different sound generation tasks: MusicGen creates music. It was trained on 20,000 hours of music owned by Meta or licensed specifically for this purpose; AudioGen generates sounds […]
Meta may launch AI-based “personas” on its services, including Facebook and Instagram, as early as next month. Chatbots will provide users with a new way to search, get recommendations, and interact with the company’s products. According to sources, “persons” can have distinct individual traits. For example, one will offer travel recommendations “surfer-style,” while the other […]
This week, Meta’s Threads app became incredibly popular, registering more than 70 million accounts in about 40 hours after its launch. One of the users was a familiar account that became a thorn in the side of Twitter owner Elon Musk, as it shared what Musk called “coordinates for his assassination.” According to Engadget, this […]
Meta announced NFT testing last spring for some creators on its own social networks. By July, the company had expanded support for non-fungible tokens for Instagram users to 100 countries, and now it has decided to abandon the feature. Instead, Meta will redirect its investments from NFTs to the development of its own digital wallet, […]
We have already written more than once that Meta is engaged in the development of a branded smart watch. It seems that it is not worth waiting for the release of the new product. According to Reuters, the corporation decided to close the project due to budget cuts. All employees who were previously engaged in […]
The American company Meta reported a possible data leak of at least one million users of its Facebook social network. Personal information may have been stolen due to security issues with apps downloaded from the App Store and Google Play. The company discovered more than 400 malicious services masquerading as photo editors, mobile games, VPNs […]
A new report by Meta details a group of more than 60 websites posing as European news organizations, bolstered by a network of fake social media accounts. Recently, the company conducted a mass cleaning of these resources and talked about the money spent on propaganda. In a new report “removing coordinated inauthentic behavior,” Meta notes […]
On Friday, Meta will test whether a new version of the Blenderbot AI chatbot can handle the challenges of a real-world communication environment. On this day, the demo version of Blenderbot 3 with 175 billion parameters will go to conquer the spaces of public access. Meta has been working on the project since it first […]
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine officially appealed to the American corporation Meta Platforms with a request to improve the quality of moderation — so that the publications of Ukrainians are no longer hidden, and their accounts are not blocked without reason. This was announced by the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. It’s […]
Meta is shutting down its Novi digital cryptocurrency wallet. It was previously known as Calibra. From July 20, the company will stop adding funds to the wallet, and on September 1, the platform will be completely closed. Meta recommends that users withdraw existing funds from their balances ‘as soon as possible’. It also states that […]