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13 hours agoHow to Get the Most Out of Paid Social in 2026
Allocate paid social spend by testing platforms, prioritize Meta for ROAS and TikTok for awareness, and reserve budget to experiment with channels like Reddit.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 week agoFrom Garlic to Avocado: The goofy AI model codenames you should know
It may sound like a trip through the produce aisle, but leading AI companies have something much more important on their lists. Meta, OpenAI, and Google have all relied on food-related names for their sometimes secretive plans for future AI models. Thinking with your stomach is nothing new for Silicon Valley, just look at the assortment of desserts Android assembled over the years before Google had its fill.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 weeks agoInside Silicon Valley's 'soup wars': Why Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI are hand delivering liquid lunch to broach talent | Fortune
Zuckerberg, Chen said, has personally "hand-cooked" and "hand-delivered" soup to researchers he wanted to recruit away from OpenAI. And it wasn't a joke, the executive insisted. "It was shocking to me at the time," Chen admitted. But in Silicon Valley, if the enemy brings broth, you must respond in kind. Chen confessed he has now adopted the tactic, delivering soup to his own recruits as he hopes to poach talent from Meta.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks agoOpenAI's chief researcher says Mark Zuckerberg 'hand-delivered soup' to an employee in a recruiting effort
Meta aggressively recruited OpenAI researchers and engineers, using personal outreach and large offers, and succeeded in hiring some OpenAI talent.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoInstagram's age-verification identified a moustachioed adult as over 16 but how did it go with a 13-year-old?
Instagram uses date-of-birth checks and optional video-selfie verification to block users under 16 and will deactivate accounts under Australia's upcoming social-media ban.
fromMedium
3 weeks agoDawn of the undead peripheral
The toxicity of his products is exceeded only by his gormless demeanour (let he who is without sin, cast the first stone). Yet, even those who consider him an enemy of humanity must admit that Zuckerberg possesses a talented grasp on the fundamentals of technology trends. Despite the clinical efficiency of his businesses in spreading misery, or perhaps proof of how well the product has been engineered underneath the hood - offerings like Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, it is fair to acknowledge, are tightly-built products.
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fromwww.bbc.com
3 weeks agoMeta accused of letting AI sellers 'run rampant'
One company removed from the platform is C'est La Vie, which claimed to be a longstanding jewellery retailer run by Patrick and Eileen in Birmingham but had a returns address in China. Mabel & Daisy, which used AI generated pictures of a mother and daughter and claimed to sell "timeless clothing" from a shop in Bristol, has also been removed from the platform after it was exposed for selling cheap items from a base in Hong Kong.
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fromThe Verge
1 month agoMeta's Hyperscape is ready to turn your real living room into a VR hangout
Meta's impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its "Hyperscape" capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3 or Quest 3S VR headset to scan a room, have so far been solitary spaces. If you wanted to visit a virtual version of a room in your house (or of Gordon Ramsay's home kitchen), you could only do it on your own.
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