Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from …
It was revealed via court documents last month that Meta had obtained AI training data from LibGen, a large file sharing ...
Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta: Is big tech overspending on AI?
Tech titans have projected pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence (AI) in 2025, yet Wall Street impatiently awaits returns on their investments. Amazon is leading the charge, having ...
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Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab
According to Jean-Rémi King, leader of Meta’s “Brain & AI” research team, the system is able to determine what letter a skilled typist has pressed as much as 80% of the time, an accuracy high enough ...
How Much Should Authors Get Paid to License Books to AI?
Most experts agree that tech companies should pay creators whose work is used to train artificial intelligence. Deciding on ...
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Meta trained their AI on Pirate Shadow Libraries
The emails being unsealed was due to Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed US federal class-action lawsuits on behalf of Sarah ...
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
"Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right," Nikolay Bashlykov, a Meta research engineer, wrote in an April 2023 ...
Not every AI prompt deserves multiple seconds of thinking: how Meta is teaching models to prioritize
Let models explore different solutions and they will find optimal solutions to properly allocate inference budget to AI reasoning problems.
Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure' if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows
In a leaked memo obtained by BI, Meta's CTO called 2025 "the year of greatness" and the "most critical" year for the ...