Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change, announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that let modders turn the glasses into covert recorders. A w…
Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip belongs t…
Meta’s chief technology officer has given the fullest account yet of the mishap that forced the company to halt its most contentious AI project, the keystroke-logging scheme it calls the Model Capability Initiative. Andrew Bosworth said a researcher ha…
Meta will build its first data centre in Canada, a 1-gigawatt campus in central Alberta that the company values at C$13 billion (about US$9 billion), extending the same relentless build-out that produced its $200 billion Hyperion campus in Louisiana. T…
Meta might be the next company to make an always-on AI wearable. The company is working on prototype “super sensing” always-aware smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos “every few seconds,” according to the Financial Times. The wearer could then ask Meta AI about the captured audio and images. However, the images […]
The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out …
A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, …
Meta has been told to go back and talk to France’s newspapers about money. On Wednesday, the country’s competition regulator ordered the company to reopen negotiations with news publishers over payment for their content, after an earlier round of talks…