Ireland’s data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta Platforms’ Irish arm €251 million (US$264 million) following two inquiries into a personal data breach that it said impacted 29 million users worldwide. The breach was reported by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) in September 2018. It impacted data including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, posts on … Read more
US technology companies have warned Vietnam’s government that a draft law to tighten information-protection rules and limit data transfers abroad would hamper social media platforms and data centre operators from growing their businesses in the Southeast Asian country. The draft law, being discussed in the country’s parliament, is also designed to ease authorities’ access to … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding is scaling down its metaverse operations, according to a source familiar with the matter, making it the latest Big Tech company to pull back resources from the once-popular sector. Dozens of employees at Yuanjing, the metaverse unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba, have been laid off, as part of a restructuring that aims … Read more
OpenAI is working with Broadcom to develop a new artificial intelligence chip specifically focused on running AI models after they have been trained, according to two people familiar with the matter. The AI start-up and chipmaker are also consulting Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest chip contract manufacturer, said the people, who asked … Read more
Facebook parent Meta Platforms will produce its next-generation virtual and augmented reality headsets in Vietnam, creating more than 1,000 jobs, the company said Tuesday. The announcement comes as Vietnam looks to boost its attractiveness as a destination for investment by the world’s biggest companies and a key part of the global supply chain. Speaking at … Read more
The companies unveiled their “Large Language Model Security Requirements for Supply Chain” on Friday with the World Digital Technology Academy (WDTA), during a side event at the Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai. This new standard, which covers the entire life cycle of LLMs, is part of the WDTA’s broader AI Safety, Trust, and … Read more
Tesla CEO and online shitposter Elon Musk is reigniting the idea of fighting Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. While he was leaving the U.S. Capitol after attending Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress (which I will not comment on for fear of getting yelled at), a reporter asked him about his on-again-off-again fight… Read more… Read original … Read more
Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp has inked a collaborative pact with communications services company Tanla Platforms to identify fraudulent phone numbers in an attempt to boost efforts at controlling scams over its messaging platform, a top executive close to the companies said. “Given that WhatsApp is an end-to-end encrypted channel, external signals are crucial for the platform … Read more
The US tech giant rolled out the option after the European Union’s top court ruled Meta must first get consent before showing ads to users, in a decision that threatened its business model of tailoring ads based on individual users’ online interests and digital activity. Meta’s model does not allow users to exercise their right … Read more
Three of the four top 10-ranked Chinese LLMs were from the Tongyi Qianwen series, also known as Qwen, developed by e-commerce and cloud computing giant Alibaba, according to AI and machine-learning developer platform Hugging Face, which released its updated leaderboard with new metrics on Wednesday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s Qwen-72B-Instruct … Read more
