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Science & Technology

Threads Tops ChatGPT’s Record With 100 Million Users in 5 Days

The number of users of the new social network, launched by the tech giant Meta and called Threads, reached 100 million people last weekend.

Science & Technology

Meta Launches Threads Beta Program for Android Users

Meta launches a beta version of the Threads application for owners of devices running on the Android operating system.

Science & Technology

Twitter Warns Meta Not to Scrape User Data

Twitter has greeted the launch of the Meta Threads text application with a letter from its lawyer.

News

Zuckerberg Aims to Make Threads 1-Billion Member App

Tech giant Meta on Thursday, July 6, launched a Twitter competitor called Threads, which could become an application with 1 billion users.

News

Meta Loses EU Court Fight Over German Attack on Facebook

The social network Facebook, which is part of the Meta ownership structure, lose in the Supreme Court of the European Union for the cancellation of the German antitrust decision, which provided for a review of the business strategy of the American technology firm.

Finance & Economics

Meta Reportedly Looks to Tencent to Relaunch Business in China

The media reported that Meta is currently trying to establish cooperation with the Chinese company Tencent in order to resume operations in that country.

Fintech & Ecommerce

WhatsApp Business Gains 150 Million Users in 3 Years

Meta reports that currently the monthly number of active users of the WhatsApp business application exceeds the 200 million mark.

Science & Technology

Meta Launches Subscription Service on Games for Virtual Reality Headsets

Meta has announced the launch of a new game subscription service for virtual reality (VR) headsets.

Science & Technology

Meta and OpenAI CEOs Back EU Artificial Intelligence Rules

The heads of Meta and OpenAI expressed support for European government initiatives that relate to the regulation of the process of development and dissemination of artificial intelligence.

News

Canada to Require Google and Meta to Pay for News

The Senate of Canada last Thursday, June 22, passed a bill according to which Google and Meta are obliged to provide the media with a fee for news materials distributed on the platforms of these companies.

Science & Technology

Meta Introduces AI Model With Speech Generation Capabilities

Meta Platforms has presented a new model of generative artificial intelligence, which is capable of generating speech.

News

Meta to Appeal Kenya’s Court Decision

Meta plans to appeal the Kenyan court’s decision, according to which the company received the status of an employer of moderators of content published on the platforms of the technology giant in sub-Saharan Africa.

Society & Lifestyle

Mark Zuckerberg Shares AI Products to Reassure Workers of Strategy

The chief executive officer of Meta Platforms, Mark Zuckerberg, tried to reassure the company’s employees about the prospects for implementing the current development strategy of the technology giant, which provides for the concentration of significant forces and resources on activities related to the introduction of artificial intelligence.

Science & Technology

WhatsApp Launches Channels Feature for Broadcast Messages

Meta announced the introduction of a broadcast-based messaging feature in WhatsApp, which is called Channels.

Society & Lifestyle

Meta Seeks to Force FTC Into Court to Change Privacy Settlement

Meta Platforms has appealed to a federal court to deprive the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the opportunity to move forward as part of the agency’s procedure to review its confidentiality agreement reached in 2020.

Society & Lifestyle

Meta Hit With Landmark $1.3 Billion EU Privacy Fine

The Meta Platforms company in Europe was fined a record amount of $1.3 billion.