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Meta patches its Ray-Ban smart glasses to stop secret recordings after public backlash
A software update will cut off the camera if someone covers the recording light mid-shoot, closing a loophole that let wearers film strangers without any visible warning.
Meta Is Quietly Testing Robots Inside Its Data Centers, and Workers Are Worried
Robotic arms, cable-swappers, and button-pressing sticks are already running trials at Meta's biggest data center campus. The humans who work there are paying close attention.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
Meta drew up plans to cut some teams by 60 percent in a push to run on AI
An internal project called 'Organisation Transformation' mapped out deep headcount reductions. Meta confirmed the plan existed but has not said which teams were in scope.
Australia Forces Tech Giants to Pay for News, and Nine's CEO Thinks AI Makes That Bet Bigger
New Australian laws could make Google and Meta pay levies if they don't cut deals with local newsrooms. Nine Entertainment's boss says it opens a 'world of growth' even as the company trims $160 million in costs.
Os Datacenters de IA Estão a Acumular Dívida. Está uma Crise a Chegar?
Especialistas alertam que as empresas que constroem datacenters de IA estão a esconder enormes dívidas fora dos seus registos. A comparação com colapsos corporativos passados soa alarmante. Eis porque é que a maioria dos analistas acredita que o alarme está infundado.
A Maioria dos Principais Laboratórios de IA Não Tem Plano Público para Deter um Modelo Desonesto
Um novo estudo independente avaliou cinco empresas líderes em IA nos seus planos de contenção de emergência. Os resultados são insuficientes em todos os casos, e os reguladores estão a começar a reparar.
You probably can't tell when someone's Meta AI glasses are recording you
Smart glasses are showing up in schools, courts and restaurants. Bans are spreading, but spotting a pair in the wild is harder than you'd think.
Wait, are we actually cooling AI data centres with pee? Sort of, yes
A cheeky beer advert starring Jason Kelce accidentally landed on a real solution to one of AI's biggest environmental problems. Here is what the science actually says.
Why Silicon Valley Still Does Not Understand the AI Backlash
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI. Tech CEOs are diagnosing the wrong problem, and ordinary people are starting to notice.
Meta's Pocket App Lets Anyone Build a Phone Game With a Text Prompt. It Just Opened to All US Users.
Meta's experimental app turns a plain-English description into a playable, shareable mobile game in seconds. No coding needed, and the games respond to touch and phone tilt.
UK Cinemas Eye Ban on Meta Smart Glasses Over Film Piracy Fears
The trade body for British cinemas says local chains are weighing policies to keep camera-equipped smart glasses out of screenings, as venues worry the devices make covert recording dangerously easy.
Meta ran ads for an app that made deepfake porn of politicians. Again.
A tool called Kromix bought ad space on Meta's platforms promising 'no restrictions' and showing a woman resembling a sitting US politician in a pornographic video. Meta's policies already ban this. They ran the ads anyway.
TerraPower's nuclear plant stores heat in molten salt. That could make it ideal for AI data centres.
The Bill Gates-founded startup plans to announce its first data centre deal this year. Its trick: keeping the reactor running flat-out while banking spare heat for the moments when demand spikes.
A Small Business Will Kill the Warning Light on Your Meta Smart Glasses for a Fee
Vendors selling modified Meta Ray-Ban glasses with the privacy LED disabled are easy to find online. Here is what that means if you work, shop, or perform in public.