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New Delhi: Meta Platforms-owned instant messaging service WhatsApp has announced the launch of WhatsApp Channels in India and over 150 countries that will deliver private updates from organizations, sports teams, artists, and thought leaders that people can follow. WhatsApp Channels are a one-way broadcast tool within the app, the company said in a statement. “Excited to introduce you all to WhatsApp Channels, a new private way for you to get updates from people and organizations you follow.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about trying to pass bipartisan legislation that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks

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New Delhi: Meta Platforms-owned instant messaging service WhatsApp has announced the launch of WhatsApp Channels in India and over 150 countries. These will deliver private updates from organizations, sports teams, artists, and thought leaders that people can follow. WhatsApp Channels are a one-way broadcast tool within the app, the company said in a statement.

«People are misusing genuine OTT platforms to bypass the system because they are not regulated, they are not subject to any security regulations.

“There is no fixing Big Tech,” Cory Doctorow, a novelist and public-interest technologist who gained online fame with the blog “Boing Boing,” writes in his new book “The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means of Computation,” a manifesto for people who w...

Google and its charitable arm, Google.org, launched the Digital Futures Project, an initiative to study responsible artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, on Sep. 11. 

Meta's Twitter (now X) rival Threads has rolled out a «keyword search» feature to more countries, including India, on both mobile and web — which the company started testing in Australia and New Zealand last week. Along with India, the company rolled out the feature in Argentina, Mexico, the UK, and the US.

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a multi-account feature with a new interface for the app settings to beta testers on Android. With this multi-account feature, users will be able to add an additional account on the same device directly right within WhatsApp Settings, according to WABetaInfo.

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures edge up as traders look ahead to key economic data and new company results this week. Elsewhere, Google reportedly eyes plans to sell its mapping data to companies building renewable energy products, while Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and other tech industry leaders are invited to Washington for a forum discussing the possible pitfalls of generative artificial intelligence.

Eric Schmidt. The closed-door gathering is the first of the AI Insight Forums by Schumer and is part of his plan to give the Congress more control over the future of AI.

Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the social media giant is engaged in widespread manipulation of public opinion globally. In a scathing tweet, Musk suggested that Facebook's refusal to open source its algorithm is a clear indicator of its intention to influence and control public discourse. Musk's comments come amid growing concerns about the role of social media platforms in shaping public perceptions and influencing elections.

Threads users, get happy – you will finally be able to use the social media platform without an app

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it was launching the web version of its new text-first social media platform Threads, in a bid to retain professional users and gain an edge over rival X, formerly Twitter.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech in nearly 100 languages, as well as full speech-to-speech translation for 35 languages, combining technology that was previously available only in separate models. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he envisions such tools facilitating interactions between users from around the globe in the metaverse, the set of interconnected virtual worlds on which he is betting the company's future.Meta is making the model available to the public for non-commercial use, the blog post said. The world's biggest social media company has released a flurry of mostly free AI models this year, including a large language model called Llama that poses a serious challenge to proprietary models sold by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google. Zuckerberg says an open AI ecosystem works to Meta's advantage, as the company has more to gain by effectively crowd-sourcing the creation of consumer-facing tools for its social platforms than by charging for access to the models. Nonetheless, Meta faces similar legal questions as the rest of the industry around the training data ingested to create its models. In July, comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against both Meta and OpenAI, accusing the companies of using their books as training data without permission. For the SeamlessM4T model, Meta researchers said in a research paper that they gathered audio training

WhatsApp will soon empower its users with the ability to edit captions for photos, videos, GIFs, and documents. This fresh feature has already been deployed to some users, with the rest of the user base likely gaining access in the forthcoming days. Both Android and iOS users will be able to utilize this feature.

ALSO READ: Elon Musk announces removal of block feature on X, says ‘it makes no sense’ After Musk took over Twitter, he laid off much of the company's workforce, scrapped the old verified programme in favour of the $8/month Twitter Blue subscription, changed its name from Twitter to X, and introduced live streaming. Meanwhile, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a post on X (formerly called Twitter) wrote that he has deleted his Instagram account after using it for 12 years.

When Elon Musk threatens to drive uninvited to a business rival’s house to physically fight him, it raises questions about what’s going on with the world’s richest man. Among them: Has the joke gone too far? What started as a funny tit-for-tat in late June about a potential physical duel slipped into weird territory when Mark Zuckerberg’s handler had to issue a statement Monday that the Meta Platforms boss wasn’t “going to fight someone who randomly shows up at his house." Such antics are now leading some Musk supporters to worry aloud that he has lost touch, saying he is ensconced in a distorted reality that is warping his perspective and threatening his businesses at a time when he is trying to oversee multiple companies in different industries.

WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, is making a big change to how photos are shared on the platform. Soon, users will be able to send images in HD quality, which means they will look much better and clearer. This update was announced by Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of the company that owns WhatsApp, Meta.

Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced that WhatsApp users can now send photos in HD quality. To ensure sharing photos over WhatsApp remains fast and reliable, Standard Quality will continue to be the default option photos are sent in. «Sharing photos on WhatsApp just got an upgrade — now you can send in HD,» Zuckerberg posted.

Elon Musk, reported Insider. Galloway said, "A mutal friend reached out and said Elon feels 'unfairly attacked,' by me, and wants to meet," Galloway posted on Threads. "I declined." Galloway said that two days later he could no longer access his X account, which has over half-a-million followers.