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Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

news.ycombinator.com Alex Henthorn-Iwane 2025-12-21 00:45:07

Matrix has long been promoted as the future of secure, decentralized communication. Backed by an open protocol, a vibrant developer community, and bridges to legacy systems, it promises interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in. But when viewed through the lens of EU data privacy law, Matrix, and its commercial champion, Element, poses significant and underappreciated risks. For public-sector organizations, critical infrastructure, and privacy-conscious enterprises in the EU, the questio

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Oakley Meta HSTN Limited Edition review: a polarizing choice

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-12-21 06:30:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. It was a sweltering Sunday in Brooklyn. Instead of being wasteful and spending $10 on a five-minute Uber, I decided to walk the 20 minutes to a cutesy Japanese stationery cafe with an even cutesier name. Despite the 85 percent humidity, my vanity demanded I wear a full face of makeup with a snatched nose contour. Sweat was leaking out

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You can now swap Gemini for a new assistant on Android, but you really shouldn’t

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 14:24:16

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR You can now replace Google Assistant or Gemini on any Android device with Meta AI as the default digital assistant app. This lets you launch Meta AI directly by long-pressing the home button or swiping inwards from the corner. However, beware that you can’t use it for voice chat, which can be limiting compared to other options. Meta has been bullish on overtaking Google, OpenAI, xAI, and other tech giants as a major AI services provider. Taking advantag

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Meta profits surge helps drive Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-21 17:03:35

Meta profits surge helps drive Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions Meta says the cost of building infrastructure, including servers and data centres, and workers' pay packages will be its biggest expenses. At the same time expenses are also rising - up 12% to $27bn - as the company ploughs money into fulfilling chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions, and its spending is expected to keep rising. The firm - which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - says revenue for the three months to the end

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Meta's big AI spending blitz will continue into 2026

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-21 16:02:15

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to continue his company's artificial intelligence spending blitz well into the next year as rival tech giants do the same. Zuckerberg told analysts Wednesday during a second-quarter earnings call that AI's rapid pace of progress has informed much of Meta's recent business decisions, including the company's $14.3 billion June investment into the data-annotating startup Scale AI as part of a revamped AI strategy involving a wave of high-profile hires. AI's swift ad

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Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-12-21 21:41:40

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that can self-improve—meaning they can learn from themselves without as much human input. The remarks came during a second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. “At some level, [it’s] not just going to be learning from people, because you want to build something that is fundamentally smarter than people,” Zuckerberg said. “So…you’re going to develop a way for it to improve it

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Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-22 02:47:30

Echoing sentiments shared in his “superintelligence”-focused blog post this morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expanded on his bullish ideas that glasses will be the primary way users interact with AI in the years ahead. During Meta’s second quarter earnings call, the social networking exec told investors he believes people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future. “I continue to think that glasses are basically going to be the ideal form factor for AI, because you can let an A

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Zuckerberg: AI increased the time spent on Facebook and Instagram in Q2

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-22 06:21:46

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg credited AI with driving up the time users spent on the company’s apps in the second quarter. While consumers are increasingly complaining about the prevalence of “AI slop” — or low-quality AI-generated content flooding social apps — Meta says that AI systems are getting better at helping users connect with recommended content. “AI is significantly improving our ability to show people content that they’re going to find interesting and useful,” Zuckerberg told investors

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Meta to spend up to $72B on AI infrastructure in 2025 as compute arms race escalates

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-22 06:31:42

Meta is pouring money into the physical and technical infrastructure needed to scale its AI ambitions. The company said Wednesday in its second-quarter earnings report that it plans to more than double its spend on building AI infrastructure, like data centers and servers. “We currently expect 2025 capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, to be in the range of $66-72 billion…up approximately $30 billion year-over-year at the midpoint,” Meta said. That’s an aggressi

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Meta shares climb 10% on revenue beat, raised forecast

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-22 11:52:10

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a smartphone, as he makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Meta shares jumped as much as 10% after the company reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat on revenue. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share : $7.14 vs. $5.92 expected : $7.14 vs. $5.92 expected Revenue: $47.52 vs. $44.80 billi

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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.53 billion loss in second quarter

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian Ashley Capoot 2025-12-22 11:20:49

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents Orion AR Glasses as he makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. The Reality Labs division oversees the Quest line of virtual reality headsets in addition to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which are jointly developed with the French-Italian eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica. Meta wants Reality Labs to create cutting-edge products similar to the prototype Orion augmented

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Mark Zuckerberg Looks Like He's Been Taken Hostage as He Explains Plan for Deploying AI Superintelligence

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-23 00:22:32

Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to bizarre videos. From the infamous clip where he declares his love for "Sweet Baby Ray's" barbecue sauce to the time he was recorded taking a Turing test, the tech founder has long found himself in awkward positions on camera. Still, none in recent memory can compare to a new video plugging Meta's so-called Superintelligence AI lab, which sees the newly dripped-out CEO stare directly into the camera — and, perhaps, through our souls — as he

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What's Not to Like?

news.ycombinator.com Max Byrd 2025-12-23 02:00:42

Similes! I have hundreds of them on three-by-five notecards, highbrow and lowbrow, copied from newspapers, comic strips, sonnets, billboards, and fortune cookies. My desk overflows with them. They run down to the floor, trail across the room into the hallway. I have similes the way other houses have ants. Why? To start, for the sheer laugh-out-loud pleasure of them. “His smile was as stiff as a frozen fish,” writes Raymond Chandler. “He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into the mud,” writes

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Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-23 02:56:58

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision on Wednesday for “personal superintelligence,” the idea that people should be able to use AI to achieve their personal goals. Smuggled into the letter is a signal that Meta is shifting how it plans to release AI models as it pursues “superintelligence.” “We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible,” wrote Zuckerberg. “That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We’ll need to be

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Meta slated to reported second-quarter earnings after the bell

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-23 06:00:01

Meta is set to report its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, with analysts eyeing any changes to the company's costs and related guidance amid CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent artificial intelligence hiring blitz. Here's what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per share : $5.92 expected : $5.92 expected Revenue: $44.8 billion expected Investors are likely to be monitoring any comments from Zuckerberg about his company's recent spending on AI and how that technology might benefit

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Mark Zuckerberg says ‘developing superintelligence is now in sight,’ shades OpenAI and other firms focused on automating work

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-23 11:11:45

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now After hiring away numerous top AI researchers from the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Apple and dangling multi-hundred million-dollar (or in one case, reportedly a billion-dollar) pay packages in a recruitment spree that’s shaken the tech industry, Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sharing more about his vision for “superintelligence

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Mark Zuckerberg shares a confusing vision for AI 'superintelligence'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 11:39:44

Mark Zuckerberg has spent the last several months and several billion dollars recruiting prominent AI researchers and executives for a new "superintelligence" team at Meta. Now, the Meta CEO has published a lengthy memo that attempts to lay out his big plan for using the company's vast resources to create "personal superintelligence." In the memo, which reads more like a manifesto than a strategic business plan, Zuckerberg explains that he's "extremely optimistic that superintelligence will hel

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Lawsuit Claims Meta Pirated Vast Numbers of Dirty Movies to "Train Its AI"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-23 16:16:30

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been accused of pirating — we are not kidding — a whole adult bookstore's worth of dirty movies to train its artificial intelligence models. First flagged by the blog TorrentFreak, a copyright company called Strike 3 Holdings and an adult film studio called Counterlife Media have filed suit against Meta, alleging that the tech giant torrented nearly 2,400 copyrighted skin flicks. All in the name of AI research, of course. According to the suit, which was filed in Cal

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Meta’s Rumored Smartwatch May Actually Be a Huge Win for Ray-Ban Glasses

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-23 16:45:20

Meta has been on a bit of a tear lately, snapping up AI researchers from Apple and OpenAI on an express train towards… something? What that something is, only time and a watchful eye will reveal, but apparently, a part of that future vision is a smartwatch. According to a report from DigiTimes, Meta is working on reviving its plans to make a smartwatch with a camera on it, and that watch could be revealed later this year. This isn’t the first time Meta has been rumored to enter this space. Seve

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Apple just lost another AI researcher as it weighs shift to third-party models

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-25 21:34:38

Apple’s foundation models team has been bleeding staff, and today Bloomberg has reported on yet another departure while Apple continues weighing a major AI pivot. Meta has poached four of Apple’s AI staff in the past month It’s been a rough month for Apple’s AI ambitions. First, Meta hired away Apple’s head of foundation models. Then, two important colleagues followed their former boss to Meta. Now today, a fourth foundation models staff member has reportedly gone to Meta’s new ‘Superintelli

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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-12-26 02:10:42

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top researchers), he appears to have set his sights on his next target. More than a dozen people at Mira Murati’s 50-person startup, Thinking Machines Lab, have been approached or received offers from the tech giant. (Murati, for those who don’t remember, was previously the chief technology officer at OpenAI.) One o

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China’s Newest Pair of Smart Glasses Are Meta’s Biggest Threat Yet

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-26 08:00:08

It’s official: Alibaba is entering the smart glasses game. After rumors that percolated late last week, Alibaba unveiled its official plans to put out frames that look awfully similar to Meta’s Ray-Bans, but with a few key advantages that could help them blow way past U.S. competition. The smart glasses, called Quark AI, are actually a lot more similar to Meta’s Ray-Bans than I expected. For one, they do not feature a display of any kind and instead focus more on here-and-now features like call

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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

wired.com Jason Koebler 2025-12-26 16:00:00

Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company has also asked existing employees to volunteer for a “mock AI-enabled interview,” the messages say. It’s the latest indication that Silicon Valley giants are pushing software engineers to use AI in their jobs, and it signals a broader move toward hiring employees who can vibecode as part of their jo

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Meta's AI spending spree is Wall Street's focus in second-quarter earnings

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-26 21:00:01

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meanwhile, revenue growth in the second quarter likely slowed to 15%, down from 22% a year earlier, according to LSEG. It would be the slowest rate of expansion for the company since early 2023, and analysts are expecting lower levels of growth in the coming quarters. Although Meta's AI talent grab may not result in the company raising its projection for 2025 total expe

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Oakley Meta glasses review: A familiar formula with some upgrades

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-26 21:00:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you're at all familiar with Meta's Ray-Ban-branded smart glasses, there won't be many surprises when it comes to its latest Oakley frames. The Oakley Meta glasses rely heavily on what's already been a successful playbook for the company: the style of a popular eyewear brand mixed wi

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses revenue tripled over the year, EssilorLuxottica says

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-27 15:51:48

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses on display in the window of a Ray Ban store in London, UK, on Friday, July 19, 2024. Revenue from sales of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses more than tripled year over year, EssilorLuxottica revealed Monday as part of the company's most recent earnings report. EssilorLuxottica said the success of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, built via a partnership with the Facebook parent stemming back to 2019, contributed to its first-half overall sales of 14.02 billion euro (US$16.25 billi

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales triple as EssilorLuxottica doubles down on wearables

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-27 16:17:40

EssilorLuxottica, Meta’s partner in the smart glasses market and owner of brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, just reported stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, driven in part by rising demand for the Ray-Ban Meta. Here’s the breakdown. In its quarterly results, EssilorLuxottica reported a 7.3% revenue increase, beating a Bloomberg-compiled analyst estimate of 5.9%. It is worth mentioning that at current exchange rates, however, revenue rose by just 3.2%, reflecting the impact of a stronger

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Control your computer with your mind? Meta's working on that

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-28 02:24:00

Hand gestures on the Project Moohan headset demoed by ZDNET's Kerry Wan at Google I/O. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Since the onset of the command line, the way humans have interacted with their computers has been restricted to a keyboard. Meta's new wristband seeks to change that. Last week, Reality Labs at Meta, the team responsible for developing the company's AR and VR offerings, published a paper in Nature detailing plans for a noninvasive wristband that uses electrical signals from the user's bod

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Revived, canceled, and back again: Meta’s smartwatch ambitions may not be dead yet

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-28 21:14:49

Kris Carlon / Android Authority TL;DR Meta may have once again revived the smartwatch project it has been working on for the last several years. It’s reported that Meta has partnered with Huaqin to manufacture the device. The smartwatch may be publicly revealed in September during the Meta Connect conference. Meta has long been working on a smartwatch to add to its collection of hardware. However, that project has had a rough development cycle as it has been canceled and revived several time

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Meta smartwatch with a camera may be announced in September

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-29 06:19:24

Apple at one time considered adding a camera to the Apple Watch, but it looks like Meta may get there first. A new report suggests the company may unveil the upcoming wearable at its September event. A Meta smartwatch with a camera was spotted in development back in 2021, but was said to have been put on pause the following year. However, a new supply-chain report says the project was revived and is now close to launch … Apple Watch with camera Apple has long been considering the idea of addi

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