Facebook parent Meta has ‘Donald Trump warning’ for European Union on WhatsApp and Instagram – The Times of India

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will not hesitate to seek the US President Trump‘s intervention if the European Union unfairly targets the company with its digital regulations, according to Meta‘s global policy director Joel Kaplan.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Kaplan said Meta would alert the U.S. government to any discriminatory…

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Facebook employees used Torrent to download 81.7TB of data to train its LLaMA: Court papers – The Times of India

Meta, Facebook‘s parent company, faces a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition in training its LLaMA AI model, according to court records revealed by vx-underground on X. First reported by Tom’s Hardware, vx-underground’s post on Twitter claims how court documents from February 5th, 2024, in Kadrey v. Meta show Meta (formerly Facebook)…

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: I was almost sentenced to death in Pakistan; but then I was really not that worried because… – The Times of India

Facebook-parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said that he was “almost sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan”. At a Joe Rogan podcast, Zuckerberg raised concerns about the ongoing legal challenges his company faces in Pakistan due to a lawsuit over alleged blasphemous content on Facebook.According to reports, the lawsuit accuses Facebook of hosting content…

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DeepSeek’s $5 million number is to hurt US companies and there are lot of American idiots who hype it, says Palmer Luckey who sold his company for billions to Facebook – The Times of India

Palmer Luckey, the American entrepreneur who sold his AR/VR hardware company Oculus to Facebook and founded defence technology comany Anduril, is skeptical of the recent hype surrounding Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and its claims about the cost of training its AI models. In a Fox Business interview, Luckey criticized the US media for what he…

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to employees: We try to be really open and then everything I say leaks. It sucks – The Times of India

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned employees to “buckle up” for an “intense year” during Thursday’s company-wide meeting, emphasizing artificial intelligence developments and addressing recent controversial policy changes.The meeting marked significant changes to Meta’s internal communication format, with the company disabling comment features and hiding question rankings due to concerns about leaks.”We try to be really…

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Just days after being dumped by Mark Zuckerberg, former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg gets court notice for ‘using Gmail’ and deleting emails – The Times of India

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg There seems more trouble for Meta’s former COO Sheryl Sandberg. Just days after, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg put the blame for all so-called wrong policies in the company on her, now comes a damning legal case. According to a recent report in New York Times, Zuckerberg blamed former COO Sandberg…

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Mark Zuckerberg to Donald Trump’s adviser: Sheryl Sandberg ‘brought ‘Wokeism’ to Facebook; new policies aim to … – The Times of India

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accused former COO Sheryl Sandberg for the present “culture” in Facebook in a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller, reported the New York Times. As per the outlet, the tech billionaire was told he has the opportunity to “rebuild America” but on the “terms of…

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Meta to lay off 3,600 employees; have decided to raise the bar, says Mark Zuckerberg – Times of India

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is set to lay off approximately 3,600 employees identified as low performers, according to an internal memo first reported by Bloomberg. CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the move in the memo, describing it as a strategy to “raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers…

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gets India Lok Sabha elections wrong, says NDA lost – Times of India

Mark Zuckerberg recently sparked controversy when he made an incorrect claim about the 2024 Indian general elections. Discussing the global erosion of trust in governments following the COVID-19 pandemic at a podcast with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg said that public dissatisfaction had influenced election outcomes worldwide. Referring to the elections held in 2024, he remarked, “Incumbents…

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