The Meta-owned app announced a new AI-powered writing tool that can help you compose messages. Like some of WhatsApp’s other AI features, the writing tool is also built on the platform’s Private Processing technology, which is supposed to shield your AI interactions from Meta and WhatsApp.
Both were at Meta for less than a month, Wired reported. A third Superintelligence lab employee also left but did not specify where he was headed in a post on X.
The codenamed “Hypernova” glasses, as well as a third-generation pair of its glasses that only support voice, could debut at Meta’s Connect event in September, CNBC reports. The event takes place on September 17th and 18th.
That means no more scrolling through profiles to find the second half of a reel. If a creator links their videos, you can jump directly to the next one by tapping the “Watch Part 2” button beneath the reel’s caption.
So it’s no surprise Meta is supporting a new solar farm in South Carolina that’ll provide power for the first data center the tech company is building in the state. Developers also have to race to take advantage of Biden-era tax credits for renewables before they expire, a victim of Republicans’ big spending bill.
It’s ending its hiring spree with a sudden freeze, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s spent big on superintelligence, hiring over 50 new AI researchers and engineers, with offers worth tens of millions of dollars, but all that expenditure has some investors spooked.
In his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman mentions that Meta has decided that when its smart glasses with a heads-up display debut later this fall, the starting price will be around $800 instead of the $1,000 price range previously rumored.
Joelle Pineau, who oversaw Meta’s fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab until she departed in April, wrote that the new executive role at the AI startup would be an “exciting new chapter.”
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The country’s communications regulator claims people use the messaging apps to “deceive and extort money,” as well as involve Russians in “terrorist activities,” the Associated Press reports. In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on the creation of a state-backed messaging app as part of efforts to exercise more control over the internet.
The Wall Street Journal interviewed several “clippers,” or the people who dice up longer videos into short, grabby clips that get posted to accounts across Instagram and TikTok. One person, whose clipping business earns $20,000 to $30,000 per month, told the WSJ that “the only way to be famous in today’s internet world is with clips.”
[The Wall Street Journal]
