Meta is facing backlash over its new AI tool Muse Image, which can generate images using other people’s profile pictures without telling them. It is one of many publicly available text-to-image conversion tools that, as the name suggests, can create images from a few lines of simple written text. Muse Image is available through the
Meta will bring a data center to Canada. The company announced Wednesday that it has broken ground on a new artificial intelligence computing center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, outside of Edmonton. The facility represents an investment of more than 13 billion Canadian dollars, or approximately $9 billion, and is planned as a 1-gigawatt data center,
Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as creepy technology. The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with. The move is apparently a concession to consumer sentiment that glasses are not just fun,
Meta has unveiled its new AI imager, Muse Image, which was produced by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s dedicated AI unit. The new feature, internally codenamed Mango, will be available for free through the Meta AI app, as well as on Instagram Stories and WhatsApp. What exactly can you do with Muse? It looks like
Chris Harrison, director of the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University, doesn’t think the new subscription will help pay for Meta’s AI spending. “The industry has made enormous strides, even in the last six months, but certainly in the last 18 months, improving the efficiency of token generation and running these models much more
Meta is getting into gaming with the launch of a new app called Pocket, which allows people to generate small, interactive apps and games using AI prompts. The software, the result of Meta’s acquisition of the vibe code gaming platform Gizmo team earlier this year, describes itself as “a creative platform for creating and sharing