Meta unveils a new AI app to rival ChatGPT, with a social 'Discover' feed showcasing user interactions, a voice mode for natural conversation, and personalization using Facebook and Instagram data, aligning with Meta's AI and hardware roadmap including AI-powered smart glasses.
Major tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Amazon, and Microsoft amass vast troves of personal data from users, including contact details, location, browsing history, interests, and even sensitive information like work, income, race, religion, and political views, raising significant privacy worries.
Instagram is employing AI technology to detect underage users who misrepresented their age, automatically enrolling them into a restricted 'Teen Account' with enhanced safeguards, while allowing users to correct any age misidentification errors.
Meta is leveraging AI technology to safeguard minors on Instagram by automatically adjusting account settings to age-appropriate restrictions if AI detects a user is underage but has an adult account, while allowing users to modify settings if the AI assessment is incorrect.
OpenAI develops X-like social network prototype centered on AI image generation, with CEO Sam Altman seeking external feedback on the platform that would directly compete with Elon Musk and Meta while providing valuable real-time data for training AI models.
Riding the wave of its groundbreaking image-generation technology, OpenAI is reportedly weighing the creation of a social network to rival Elon Musk's X and Meta's Instagram, marking a potential new frontier in the intensifying AI competition and legal battles between tech titans.
YouTube throws its weight behind the 'No Fakes Act' to combat unauthorized AI-generated replicas, allowing individuals to request removal while balancing innovation, as it expands its pilot program enabling creators to detect and remove AI copies of themselves.
Elon Musk's xAI acquires X (formerly Twitter) for $33 billion in all-stock deal, marking an $11 billion loss from his original $44 billion purchase as he consolidates his AI and social media ventures into one platform.
In a blockbuster $113 billion deal, Elon Musk's AI firm xAI has acquired the social media giant X (formerly Twitter), valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, with Musk claiming the merger will 'unlock immense potential' by fusing AI with X's global reach.
Perplexity, an AI search startup, proposes an ambitious $30-50 billion bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, rebuild its algorithm transparently and integrate its search capabilities, seeking funding at an $18 billion valuation.