If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Meta and Ray-Ban just launched the most advanced smart eyewear yet: the Meta Ray-Ban Display. The new smart glasses feature three key new technologies: They’re the first AI-powered …
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Eminem‘s publishing company Eight Mile Style has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta. The suit filed in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division and reviewed by Rolling Stone alleges that the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp has distributed the rapper’s music across its …
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First Lady Melania Trump’s Easter Egg Roll, scheduled for Monday, features corporate sponsors for the first time in the event’s history, among them major Silicon Valley corporations. The event — which takes place when egg prices are at record highs and avian flu is spreading through flocks — features a …
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Life was going great before we watched this video of Mark Zuckerberg — and since we had to see it, you do too. Over the weekend, Zuckerberg decided to surprise his wife Priscilla Chan at her 40th birthday party by doing a cosplay as Benson Boone at the Grammys. (Yes, …
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Donald Trump is president again, and corporate interests have been paying up. Dozens of major companies recently disclosed making significant donations to support Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, which ended up being a small, intimate affair in the U.S. Capitol. Industries showering Trump with cash included Big Oil, Big Tech, Big …
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At the dawn of a second Donald Trump era, Mark Zuckerberg has been busy sucking up to a president who last year threatened him with life in prison. The Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder reportedly promised the administration he won’t stand in the way of Trump’s immigration crackdowns, which the …
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The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram. As first revealed in a motion …
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Silicon Valley billionaires are scrambling to get into President-elect Donald Trump’s good graces ahead of his inauguration later this month, and no one has embarked on a more blatant boot-licking campaign than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta has already donated $1 million dollars to Trump’s inaugural fund, and Zuckerberg flew …
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Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, whose platforms are already flooded with AI-generated content, recently floated an idea to make the problem even worse: letting users create bot characters in their AI Studio that would then become functional “users” of these sites themselves, appearing to have their own accounts that engage …
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Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is expected to raise the most cash in the history of such events — perhaps upward of $150 million, and certainly more than the record $107 million he raised for his first presidential inauguration. A good chunk of that cash is coming from companies that previously …
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