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Meta (formerly Facebook) is betting its future on open-weight AI models (Llama), AI-powered social products across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and massive data-center spending. Its Llama releases define the open-source AI track, and its Threads platform competes with X.

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Threads has a VR app now

Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500 million monthly active users. It seems like a pretty full-featured app. Meta says that with the Threads VR app, you can do things like browse feeds, make posts, like and reply to posts, visit profiles, search, and watch videos - you know, Threads stuff. "We designed the new Threads app for Meta Quest to make using VR more social than ever," Meta says. "Whether you want to keep up with conversations during a ga … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge · 9 hours ago

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Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning

Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominance Hello, TechScape readers! Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian’s Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week. Major legal battles against Meta over child safety are playing out in courts across the US – and the tec…

The Guardian Technology · 16 hours ago

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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave Courts in England and Wales have joined a number of restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning Meta glasses, amid a mounting backlash against what has been described as “spyware”. Last mon…

The Guardian Technology · 17 hours ago