- Microsoft announced the availability of Meta’s new language software at its Inspire conference Tuesday.
- A Meta spokesperson said the company is not “not focused on monetization for Llama 2,” and that businesses would need to pay Microsoft for the enterprise hosting capabilities.
- For Microsoft, the deal shows its willingness to throw some of its weight behind an AI language from a company other than OpenAI.
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- Qualcomm and Meta will enable the social networking company’s so-called new large language model, Llama 2, to run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs starting in 2024
- Qualcomm says the technology will enable applications like intelligent virtual assistants.
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- After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Instagram’s Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed that it is blocking such efforts.
- The company launched Threads last week, but given privacy concerns around the app, it is not available in the EU.
- The company said in a statement that it has applied further measures to stop users from accessing the new social app.
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- Instagram's Threads has seen drops in daily active users and time spent on app since the weekend, according to SensorTower and SimilarWeb.
- But with 100 million signups in only 5 days, it’s still one of the fastest-debuting apps of all time, and seems to be siphoning some traffic from Twitter.
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- A group of lawmakers led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are calling on the Biden administration to investigate possibly illegal sharing of taxpayer information by tax prep software companies with tech platforms like Meta and Google.
- In a letter, the lawmakers laid out key findings from their own probe that expanded on reporting from The Markup and The Verge, which initially revealed the data sharing.
- Both the tax prep companies and tech firms were “reckless” in how they handled sensitive information, the lawmakers wrote.
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