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Meta Won Its AI Fair Use Lawsuit, but Judge Says Authors Are Likely 'to Often Win' Going Forward

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 15:00:04

AI companies scored another victory in court this week. Meta on Wednesday won a motion for partial summary judgment in its favor in Kadrey v. Meta, a case brought on by 13 authors alleging the company infringed on their copyright protections by illegally using their books to train its Llama AI models. The ruling comes two days after a similar victory for Claude maker Anthropic. But Judge Vince Chhabria stressed in his order that this ruling should be limited and doesn't absolve Meta of future c

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

news.ycombinator.com Tina Nguyen 2026-02-21 20:08:28

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. For years, Meta trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. Now, it’s also hoping to access the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those photos, but it

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Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-02-21 14:02:42

Meta is definitely offering hefty multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new superintelligence lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting. During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday leaked to The Verge, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the bonuses that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered to top researchers. Meta’s CTO Andrew Bos

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2026-02-22 00:30:00

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. For years, Meta’s trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. But apparently, Meta has decided to try training its AI on the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook users trying to p

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Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-02-22 20:02:42

Meta is definitely offering hefty multi-million-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new Superintelligence Lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting. During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday leaked to The Verge, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the bonuses that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered to top researchers. Meta’s CTO Andrew Bo

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Meta Quest 3 VR and Batman Bundle at This Price? Don’t Wait for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-23 09:42:27

The Meta Quest 3 is the most feature-rich affordable VR headset available currently, and it’s an easy top choice among users and critics alike. While the new 3S model is cheaper at $299, it simply doesn’t offer the same level of performance and features as the standard Meta Quest 3. With a perfect 5 out of 5-star rating from over 2,000 Amazon reviews, this headset is our pick for best immersive gaming and mixed reality. What’s great is that the Meta Quest 3 doesn’t require a console at all, so y

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Meta buys over 1 GW of renewables to power its data centers

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-02-23 10:02:09

Meta bolstered its already considerable renewable power portfolio this week with a string of deals that added over 1 gigawatt of generating capacity. The social media company announced Thursday it will buy 791 megawatts of solar and wind power in Ohio, Arkansas, and Texas from project developer Invenergy. And on Wednesday, Meta said it would buy the environmental attributes from two of Adapture Renewables’ solar farms in Texas, totaling 360 megawatts. The various projects are expected to come

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Meta is reportedly looking to acquire AI voice replicator PlayAI

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-24 00:30:32

The company will be getting its technology and some of its employees if the deal pushes through. Meta is in currently in acquisition talks with PlayAI, a California-based startup that provides its users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. According to the news organization, Meta is looking to buy the startup's technology, as well as to absorb some of its employees into the company. The parties haven't come to an agreement yet, but if the acquisition pushes through, it could g

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The Morning After: Did Panasonic make the best camera for creators?

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-24 16:49:22

Panasonic’s S1 II is arguably the company’s best creator camera, if not the best creator camera, period. That’s according to our review from Steve Dent, who really liked a lot of things but especially the 6K RAW video and excellent stabilization. However, at $3,200, it’s expensive compared to the competition. Engadget Nikon’s Z6 III has nearly the same video capabilities, is a better camera for photography and costs at least $600 less. Then there’s Panasonic’s own $2,500 S1 IIe, which was anno

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Meta in talks to acquire voice cloning startup Play AI

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-24 15:38:12

In Brief Alongside bolstering its AI research talent pool, Meta seems to be keen to flesh out its consumer-facing AI features. The company is in discussions to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The tech giant aims to buy the startup’s tech and bring on board some of its staff, the report said. Play AI lets anyone clone different kinds of voices that they can use for AI-powered use cases, such as customer service, per its website. The

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Judge rejects Meta's claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-24 11:55:52

Now that Meta has largely beaten an AI training copyright lawsuit raised by 13 book authors—including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz—the only matter left to settle in that case is whether Meta violated copyright laws by torrenting books used to train Llama models. In an order that partly grants Meta's motion for summary judgment, judge Vince Chhabria confirmed that Meta and the authors would meet on July 11 to "discuss how to proceed on the plaintiffs’ sep

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WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-24 23:19:24

WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family We are once again asking: who asked for this? Summary Judgment WhatsApp is now offering AI summaries of text threads for those too lazy to read through their messages themselves. In a press release, the Meta-owned messaging app framed the new AI summarizing function as an optional feature that can help busy users keep up with their texts. "We've all been there — rushing between m

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Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge says others could bring lawsuits

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2026-02-24 23:52:35

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta on Wednesday prevailed against a group of 13 authors in a major copyright case involving the company's Llama artificial intelligence model, but the judge made clear his ruling was limited to this case. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria sided with Meta's argument that the company's use of books to train its large language model

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Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-25 04:46:52

Now that Meta has largely beaten an AI training copyright lawsuit raised by 13 book authors—including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz—the only matter left to settle in that case is whether Meta violated copyright laws by torrenting books used to train Llama models. In an order that partly grants Meta's motion for summary judgment, judge Vince Chhabria confirmed that Meta and the authors would meet on July 11 to "discuss how to proceed on the plaintiffs’ sep

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These Smart Glasses Are Already Kicking Meta Ray-Bans’ Ass

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-02-25 10:40:26

Meta clearly has more competition than ever in the world of smart glasses, and that field of competitors isn’t getting any slimmer. The most recent company to join the smart glasses fray is China’s Xiaomi, which just unveiled a pair of frames that, if I’m being totally honest here, puts Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses to shame—at least on paper. The first thing I noticed about Xiaomi’s AI Glasses, which costs around the same price as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses at $280, is that it does something that I’ve be

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Judge rejects Meta’s claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-25 10:46:52

Now that Meta has largely beaten an AI training copyright lawsuit raised by 13 book authors—including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz—the only matter left to settle in that case is whether Meta violated copyright laws by torrenting books used to train Llama models. In an order that partly grants Meta's motion for summary judgment, judge Vince Chhabria confirmed that Meta and the authors would meet on July 11 to "discuss how to proceed on the plaintiffs’ sep

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Meta Scores AI Fair Use Court Victory but Judge Warns Such Wins Won't Always Be the Case

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-25 12:32:00

AI companies scored another victory in court this week. Meta on Wednesday won a motion for partial summary judgment in its favor in Kadrey v. Meta, a case brought by 13 authors alleging the company infringed on their copyright protections by illegally using their books to train its Llama AI models. The ruling comes two days after a similar victory for Claude maker Anthropic. But Judge Vince Chhabria stressed in his order that this ruling should be limited and doesn't absolve Meta of future clai

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Meta AI can summarize your unread WhatsApp messages now - how to try it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-26 00:42:00

J Studios/Getty Images Meta is introducing a new AI-powered feature into WhatsApp designed to summarize unread messages. The feature, called Message Summaries, was announced Wednesday in a WhatsApp company blog post. Message Summaries leverages Meta AI to provide brief, bulleted lists outlining key points from a message chain on the social messaging app. It's built upon Meta's Private Processing technology, which means the summaries are conveyed privately to users without any of the informatio

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Meta Scores AI Fair Use Court Victory, but Judge Warns Such Wins Won't Always Be the Case

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 00:32:36

AI companies scored another victory in court this week. Meta on Wednesday won a motion for partial summary judgment in its favor in Kadrey v. Meta, a case brought by 13 authors alleging the company infringed on their copyright protections by illegally using their books to train its Llama AI models. The ruling comes two days after a similar victory for Claude maker Anthropic. But Judge Vince Chhabria stressed in his order that this ruling should be limited and doesn't absolve Meta of future clai

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Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-26 00:45:41

Soon after a landmark ruling deemed that when Anthropic copied books to train artificial intelligence models, it was a "transformative" fair use, another judge has arrived at the same conclusion in a case pitting book authors against Meta. But that doesn't necessarily mean the judges are completely in agreement, and that could soon become a problem for not just Meta, but other big AI companies celebrating the pair of wins this week. On Wednesday, Judge Vince Chhabria explained that he sided wi

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Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-26 05:13:59

Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. Bansal has worked at OpenAI since 2022 and was a key player in kickstarting the company’s work on reinforcement learning alongside co-founder Ily

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Show HN: I built an AI dataset generator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 09:58:32

AI Dataset Generator Generate realistic datasets for demos, learning, and dashboards. Instantly preview data, export as CSV or SQL, and explore with Metabase. Features: Conversational prompt builder: choose business type, schema, row count, and more Real-time data preview in the browser Export as CSV (single file or multi-table ZIP) or as SQL inserts One-click Metabase launch for data exploration Prerequisites Docker (includes Docker Compose) OpenAI API key (get one at https://platform.

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Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups but denies wider problem

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-26 20:24:59

Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups but denies wider problem 36 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser and Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Meta says it is "fixing" a problem which has led to Facebook Groups being wrongly suspended - but denied there is a wider problem with its platforms. In online forums, Group administrators say they have received automated messages stating, incorrectly, that they had violated policies so their Groups had been deleted

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Meta wins AI copyright case filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-27 00:00:35

Federal Judge Vince Chhabria has ruled in favor of Meta over the 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, who sued the company for training its large language model on their published work without obtaining consent. His court has granted summary judgment to Meta, which means the case didn't reach full trial. Chhabria said that Meta didn't violate copyright law after the plaintiffs had failed to show sufficient evidence that the company's use of the authors' work would hurt them financially.

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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-02-26 08:11:11

Meta scored a major victory in a copyright lawsuit on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the company did not violate the law when it trained its AI tools on 13 authors' books without permission. “The Court has no choice but to grant summary judgment to Meta on the plaintiffs’ claim that the company violated copyright law by training its models with their books,” wrote US District Court judge Vince Chhabria. He concluded that the plaintiffs did not present sufficient evidence that Meta’s

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I've worn the Meta Ray-Bans for half a year, and these 5 features still amaze me

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-02-27 12:45:12

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET As a tech reporter, I attend events and conferences with other gadget aficionados. A telltale sign that a product is good is when reporters and attendees rave about it and even use their money to buy it. And no matter where I went, I couldn't escape the glowing Meta Ray-Ban reviews. Also: Meta's new $399 Oakley smart glasses beat the Ray-Bans in almost every way These experiences weren't just ones that I noticed; sales told the same story. EssilorLuxottica, the glasses pro

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WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-27 20:02:07

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. WhatsApp can now call on Meta AI to summarize your personal chats. As shown in a GIF, you can access it by tapping the button to unfurl all of your unread messages in a chat. But instead of showing your messages, WhatsApp uses Meta AI to generate a bulleted summary of what you missed. The feature is rolling out in English in the US, with plans to l

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AI-powered chat summaries are coming to WhatsApp

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 10:12:01

Meta is adding a new Message Summaries feature to WhatsApp that uses AI to summarize unread messages in a few bullet points. The feature is built on the Private Processing technique Meta announced at Llamacon in April, and claims to let AI work with content in WhatsApp without exposing any of it to Meta itself. Once the feature appears in your app, you just tap on the onscreen banner over your unread messages with that says "Summarize privately" to receive a summary from Meta AI. The Message Su

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Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-28 20:56:49

Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, which allowed the company to implement AI features that don’t impact encryption or user privacy. “Message Summaries uses Private Processing technology, which allows Meta AI

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Facebook Group admins complain of mass bans — Meta says it’s fixing the problem

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-03-02 18:36:33

After a wave of mass bans affecting Instagram and Facebook users alike, Meta users are now complaining that Facebook Groups are also being impacted by mass suspensions. According to individual complaints and organized efforts on sites like Reddit to share information, the bans have affected thousands of groups both in the U.S. and abroad and have spanned various categories. When reached for comment, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the company was aware of the issue and working to correct

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Meta Won Its AI Fair Use Lawsuit, but Judge Says Authors Are Likely 'to Often Win' Going Forward

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

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