Meta Releases SeamlessM4T AI Model to Translate Languages in Real-Time

Meta Releases SeamlessM4T AI Model to Translate Languages in Real-Time

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech…

Threads’ Web Version Is Now Live Globally, Confirms Instagram Head

Meta Starts Rolling Out Web Version of Threads to Gain an Edge Over Rival X

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it was launching the web version of its new text-first social media platform Threads, in a bid to retain professional users and gain an edge over rival X, formerly Twitter.  Threads’ users will be able to access the microblogging platform by logging-in to its website…

PayPal USD Expected to Do Better Than Facebook’s Libra in Stablecoin Market

PayPal USD Expected to Do Better Than Facebook’s Libra in Stablecoin Market

PayPal‘s stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook‘s failed, thanks to the payment giant’s standing in Washington and policymakers’ greater understanding of the issues in the last three years.  PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the US dollar, making it the second…

WhatsApp Reportedly Testing New Message Text Formatting Tools in Beta: All Details

WhatsApp Reportedly Testing New Message Text Formatting Tools in Beta: All Details

WhatsApp is reportedly working on new text formatting tools that could benefit coders, programmers, and software developers. The new feature was recently spotted in the latest WhatsApp for Desktop beta update is said to include three new formatting tools. These new tools will help users share and read codes easily…

Koo Not Competing Against X, Meta’s Threads by Meta; Going After Deeper, Regional Audiences: Co-Founder

Koo Not Competing Against X, Meta’s Threads by Meta; Going After Deeper, Regional Audiences: Co-Founder

Koo is not competing head-on against X (formerly Twitter), or even the recently-launched Threads by Meta, and is instead going after regional audiences with its language-based approach, co-founder of the homegrown platform, Aprameya Radhakrishna, has said.  Radhakrishna said Koo can be social-media-as-a-service, tailoring itself in compliance with the laws of…

Hackers Use ‘Bad Math’ to Trick Generative AI Models to Show Flaws and Biases at DEF CON 2023: Details

Hackers Use ‘Bad Math’ to Trick Generative AI Models to Show Flaws and Biases at DEF CON 2023: Details

Kennedy Mays has just tricked a large language model. It took some coaxing, but she managed to convince an algorithm to say 9 + 10 = 21. “It was a back-and-forth conversation,” said the 21-year-old student from Savannah, Georgia. At first, the model agreed to say it was part of…

Hackers Use ‘Bad Math’ to Trick Generative AI Models to Show Flaws and Biases at DEF CON 2023: Details

News Organisations Call for Regulations on Content Use by AI Makers, Reveals Letter

A group of the world’s biggest news media organizations called for revised regulations on the use of copyrighted material by makers of artificial intelligence technology, according to an open letter published on Wednesday. The note, signed by industry bodies like the News Media Alliance — which includes nearly 2,000 publications…