Hacker News with Generative AI: Meta

Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over (newyorker.com)
During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.
Social Media, Meta, Antitrust
522 points by FinnLobsien 2 days ago | 899 comments
Llama 4 Smells Bad (fastml.com)
Meta has distinguished itself positively by releasing three generations of Llama, a semi-open LLM with weights available if you ask nicely (and provide your full legal name, date of birth, and full organization name with all corporate identifiers). So no, it’s not open source. Anyway, on Saturday (!) May the 5th, Cinco de Mayo, Meta released Llama 4.
AI, Open Source, Meta, Generative AI
41 points by alexmolas 2 days ago | 26 comments
Commission Finds Apple and Meta in Breach of the Digital Markets Act (europa.eu)
Antitrust, Apple, Meta, European Union
24 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 5 comments
EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M (politico.eu)
EU, Fines, Apple, Meta, Tech
132 points by nottorp 3 days ago | 2 comments
Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law (yahoo.com)
Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.
Antitrust, EU Regulation, Big Tech, Apple, Meta
443 points by Aldipower 3 days ago | 582 comments
At Trial, Instagram Co-Founder Says Meta Denied His Company Resources (nytimes.com)
Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram, testified on Tuesday in a landmark federal antitrust trial that his startup was starved of resources after Meta bought it because Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, was afraid of the success of the photo-sharing app.
Meta, Antitrust, Social Media, Business, Lawsuits
8 points by pdyc 4 days ago | 0 comments
Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant (techcrunch.com)
With the first week of Meta’s antitrust trial behind us, documents shared by the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered more insight into Meta’s internal struggles to keep Facebook relevant.
Antitrust, Social Media, Facebook, Meta, Business
28 points by rntn 6 days ago | 9 comments
Meta's Monopoly Made It a Fair-Weather Friend (wired.com)
This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social networking empire.
Antitrust, Social Media, Business, Law, Meta
14 points by NotInOurNames 6 days ago | 3 comments
Meta MCP: Chaining Tools via Prompt-Driven Arguments (cefboud.com)
This post explores the concept of an MCP tool that can chain multiple tools within a single request, where the arguments for each tool can be dynamically generated using prompts based on the outputs of previous tools.
Meta, Prompt Engineering, AI, Tooling
16 points by Gajika981 8 days ago | 3 comments
Meta whistleblower alleges company worked with China on censorship (bbc.com)
A Meta whistleblower told US senators on Wednesday that the company undermined national security in order to build a $18 billion business in China.
Meta, Censorship, China, National Security, Business
8 points by doener 9 days ago | 0 comments
How Meta AI Staff Deemed More Than 7M Books to Have No "Economic Value" (vanityfair.com)
As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and Andrew Sean Greer, are individually worthless.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Lawsuits, Book Industry, Meta
43 points by cbzbc 9 days ago | 21 comments
Zuckerberg defends Meta under oath in federal court (npr.org)
Meta, Lawsuits, Social Media, Zuckerberg, Legal Proceedings
6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 days ago | 0 comments
Meta whistleblower alleges company worked with China on censorship (bbc.com)
A Meta whistleblower told US senators on Wednesday that the company undermined national security in order to build a $18 billion business in China.
Meta, Censorship, China, National Security, Business
7 points by eloisius 11 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Open-Source Meta Raybans with 6x of their battery (github.com/BasedHardware)
<h1>omiGlass - Open Source Meta Raybans with 6x of their battery</h1>
Open Source, Hardware, Meta, Rayban, Battery
12 points by kodjima33 12 days ago | 0 comments
U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta's Social Media Dominance (nytimes.com)
On Monday, Meta will face off against the federal government in a landmark antitrust trial over claims that it illegally squashed competition by buying Instagram and WhatsApp.
Antitrust, Social Media, Meta, Lawsuits, Competition
6 points by rbanffy 12 days ago | 0 comments
The biggest trial in Meta's history starts Monday. Here's what to know (npr.org)
The Federal Trade Commission's blockbuster antitrust case against Meta kicks off on Monday in a courtroom in Washington. It's the culmination of a nearly six-year investigation into whether the social media giant broke competition laws in acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp.
Antitrust, Social Media, Lawsuits, Meta, Business
7 points by givemeethekeys 13 days ago | 0 comments
How Meta has blown $45B failing at the metaverse (yahoo.com)
Nearly $50 billion.
Meta, Metaverse, Business, Finance, Technology
19 points by rekovacs 13 days ago | 2 comments
Meta whistleblower alleges company worked with China on censorship (bbc.com)
A Meta whistleblower told US senators on Wednesday that the company undermined national security in order to build a $18 billion business in China.
Meta, Censorship, China, National Security, Business
7 points by makaimc 16 days ago | 3 comments
Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests (thehill.com)
Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, which is now called Meta, testified at a Senate hearing Wednesday that she saw Meta executives “repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values” during her seven-year stint in that job.
Meta, National Security, Whistleblowers, Government, Social Media
409 points by c420 17 days ago | 129 comments
Whistleblower testifies to Congress regarding Meta AI aid to China (arstechnica.com)
Later today, a former Facebook employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, will testify to Congress that Meta executives "repeatedly" sought to "undermine US national security and betray American values" in "secret" efforts to "win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion dollar business in China."
Meta, AI, Government, China, National Security
6 points by All4All 17 days ago | 0 comments
Meta Whistleblower to Tell Congress That Company Aided China in AI Race (bloomberg.com)
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a Meta Platforms Inc. executive turned whistleblower, plans to testify before Congress that the social media giant threatened US interests while cozying up to China — claims the company said are false.
Meta, China, Artificial Intelligence, Whistleblowing, Congress
21 points by wslh 17 days ago | 4 comments
Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks (theverge.com)
With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.
AI, Benchmarking, Competition, Meta
347 points by pseudolus 18 days ago | 161 comments
Meta got caught gaming LMArena (theverge.com)
With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.
Artificial Intelligence, Benchmarking, AI Models, Meta
11 points by weavedfreedunes 19 days ago | 2 comments
Meta's surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality (arstechnica.com)
On Saturday, Meta released its newest Llama 4 multimodal AI models in a surprise weekend move that caught some AI experts off guard.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Meta, AI Research
9 points by pera 19 days ago | 0 comments
Serious issues in Llama 4 training. VP of AI at Meta resigned (reddit.com)
Despite repeated training efforts, the internal model's performance still falls short of open-source SOTA benchmarks, lagging significantly behind.
Generative AI, AI, Meta, Open Source
7 points by devops000 19 days ago | 3 comments
Llama 4: Did Meta just push the panic button? (interconnects.ai)
Where Llama 2’s and Llama 3’s releases were arguably some of the top few events in AI for their respective release years, Llama 4 feels entirely lost.
Generative AI, Meta, OpenAI
6 points by lairv 19 days ago | 0 comments
Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes 'throwback to OG Facebook' (cnbc.com)
Social Media, Facebook, Meta, Nostalgia, User Interface
13 points by koolba 30 days ago | 17 comments
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books, and others (garymarcus.substack.com)
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others
Copyright Infringement, Meta, Publishing, Books, Articles
50 points by tu7001 35 days ago | 55 comments
Ex-Meta executive: 'People deserve to know what this company is like' (cnn.com)
Meta, Business, Social Media, Criticism
15 points by Brajeshwar 35 days ago | 0 comments
Meta pirated books to train its AI (theatlantic.com)
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
AI, Copyright Infringement, Meta
85 points by Hary06 35 days ago | 72 comments