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Meta working on more powerful, advanced AI; sets GPT-4 as benchmark, says Wall Street Journal

Facebook parent is aiming for its new AI model to be ready next year, the Journal said, adding it will be several times more powerful than its commercial version dubbed Llama 2.

‘Biggest single takedown’ — Meta cracks down on US-targetted Chinese campaigns, seventh in 6 years

7,704 Facebook accounts, 954 Facebook pages, 15 Facebook groups and 15 Instagram accounts were removed by the global security team at Meta.

Meta plans retention ‘hooks’ for Threads after app loses more than half of users, says Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg said he considered drop-off ‘normal’ and expected retention to grow as the company adds more features, including desktop version and search functionality.

Legal complication: Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name X

Musk renamed social media network Twitter as X on Monday and unveiled a new logo for the social media platform, a stylized black-and-white version of the letter.

Meta’s Threads dethrones ChatGPT as fastest-growing platform with over 100 mn sign-ups in 5 days

Currently, there are no ads on the Threads app and Zuckerberg said the company would only think about monetization once there was a clear path to 1 billion users.

Meta’s ‘friendly’ Threads clashes with the hostile online world 

Christine Pai, the company's representative, said in an email statement that Threads will not be fact-checked. This eliminates Meta's other apps' misinformation monitoring feature.

‘We’re looking into a way to delete Threads account separately’ — Instagram head addresses concerns

In a series of posts on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri has also said that intention behind the app, built by them for sharing text updates, was was not to replace Twitter.

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over new Threads platform, cites intellectual property rights

In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who had access to their trade secrets.

Mark Zuckerberg delivers blow to Elon Musk – Meta launches ‘Twitter Killer’ Threads app

Much like Twitter, the app features short text posts that users can like, re-post and reply to, although it does not include any direct message capabilities.

Meta to launch Twitter-like app Threads, likely to release on 6 July

Threads, Instagram’s text-based conversation app, will allow users to follow accounts they follow on photo-sharing platform and keep the same username.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.