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Meta announces experimental Aria Gen 2 research smart glasses
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Meta announces experimental Aria Gen 2 research smart glasses

At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Meta on Thursday revealed the latest version of its experimental smart glasses intended to help bolster research into artificial […]

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Stripe’s valuation climbs to .5 billion in secondary stock offer
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Stripe’s valuation climbs to $91.5 billion in secondary stock offer

Stripe announced a tender offer for employees and shareholders on Thursday that values the payments startup at $91.5 billion, the closest the company has been to its peak valuation of $95 billion in 2021. “We very much care about providing good liquidity for employees and existing shareholders,” Stripe co-founder and President John Collison told CNBC’s […]

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Reddit co-founder says Meta’s end to third-party fact-checking is ‘very pragmatic’
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Reddit co-founder says Meta’s end to third-party fact-checking is ‘very pragmatic’

Reddit‘s co-founder says Meta‘s decision to end third-party fact-checking on its platforms was a “pragmatic” one, characterizing the move as a reversal of an unviable program. In January, just days before Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president for the second time, Meta announced it would end third-party fact-checking on its platforms, a program […]

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Meta apologizes after Instagram users flag flood of graphic and violent content
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Meta apologizes after Instagram users flag flood of graphic and violent content

Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Meta apologized on Thursday for a mistake that resulted in some Instagram users reporting a flood of violent and graphic content recommended on their personal “Reels” page.  “We are […]

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Nvidia CEO Huang says AI has to do ‘100 times more’ computation now than when ChatGPT was released
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Nvidia CEO Huang says AI has to do ‘100 times more’ computation now than when ChatGPT was released

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said next-generation AI will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches that think “about […]

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Jeff Bezos orders Washington Post opinion pages to support ‘personal liberties and free markets’; top editor resigns
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Jeff Bezos orders Washington Post opinion pages to support ‘personal liberties and free markets’; top editor resigns

(L-R) Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.  Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, the […]

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Super Micro files financials just ahead of Nasdaq deadline, stock pops
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Super Micro files financials just ahead of Nasdaq deadline, stock pops

Charles Liang, CEO of Super Micro Computer Inc., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 5, 2024. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro Computer reported its delayed financial results on Tuesday just in time to meet the Nasdaq’s listing deadline. Shares of the server maker popped 19% in extended trading […]

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Substack boosts video capabilities amid potential TikTok ban
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Substack boosts video capabilities amid potential TikTok ban

Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | AP After posting almost 200 videos, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and racking up millions of views, Carla Lalli Music is quitting YouTube. Substack is her new focus.  Music is a cookbook author and food content creator, and she is shifting her focus to Substack, a subscription platform […]

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Elon Musk has a problem with X’s Community Notes when he disapproves of the results
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Elon Musk has a problem with X’s Community Notes when he disapproves of the results

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images For X owner Elon Musk, the solution to monitoring misinformation online has been […]

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Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs
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Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Executives at Meta stand to get bigger bonuses this year.  The company said in a corporate filing Thursday that it had approved “an increase […]

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