Hacker News with Generative AI: Meta

Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says (arstechnica.com)
Privacy watchdog Noyb sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta Wednesday, threatening to pursue a potentially billion-dollar class action to block Meta's AI training, which starts soon in the European Union.
Privacy, AI, Lawsuits, Meta
9 points by ndr42 9 days ago | 0 comments
Meta's Llama license is still not Open Source (opensource.org)
Meta, Open Source, Licensing
4 points by nailer 10 days ago | 1 comments
Meta faces lawsuit that could dismantle it (unionrayo.com)
Goodbye to the old Facebook - Zuckerberg admits he no longer connects family and friends, faces FTC lawsuit that could dismantle Meta
Meta, Lawsuits, Social Media, Antitrust
35 points by nreece 16 days ago | 7 comments
Ask HN: Has anyone managed to pass Meta's Access Verification? (ycombinator.com)
After spending a few months building out a new project that relies on the Instagram Graph API I'm struggling to pass Meta's Access Verification for Tech Providers.
Meta, Instagram, Social Media, API, Developer Tools
24 points by hipgrave 18 days ago | 11 comments
Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI (wired.com)
Meta’s contentious AI copyright battle is heating up—and the court may be close to a ruling.
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Lawsuits, Technology
406 points by mekpro 18 days ago | 341 comments
Mark Zuckerberg says ads will soon be handled by AI (theverge.com)
It’s not really a secret that the advertising industry is about to get upended by AI — one reason big platform companies like Google and Meta have been so deeply invested in photo and video generation is because they know the first heavy users of those tools will be advertisers on their platforms.
Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Meta, Google
4 points by elorant 20 days ago | 1 comments
Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills (theregister.com)
World War Fee Meta's AI ambitions are going to cost more than expected thanks to increased competition and — who could have seen this coming? — the Trump administration's obsession with tariffs, which is driving up the price tag of key components.
Meta, AI, Tariffs, Business, Politics
11 points by rntn 21 days ago | 0 comments
Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020 (slashdot.org)
Meta, Virtual Reality, Financial Losses, Technology
69 points by geoffbp 21 days ago | 115 comments
Zuck's vision would wipe out the way the whole ad stack works (theverge.com)
It’s not really a secret that the advertising industry is about to get upended by AI — one reason big platform companies like Google and Meta have been so deeply invested in photo and video generation is because they know the first heavy users of those tools will be advertisers on their platforms.
Advertising, AI, Social Media, Meta
8 points by asix66 22 days ago | 2 comments
Meta's Reality Labs posts $4.2B loss in first quarter (cnbc.com)
Meta, Reality Labs, Finances, Losses, Technology
11 points by chollida1 22 days ago | 0 comments
Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training (theverge.com)
Meta is making a few notable adjustments to the privacy policy for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Hardware, Smart Glasses
14 points by nickthegreek 22 days ago | 11 comments
Meta AI App built with Llama 4 (about.fb.com)
Today, we’re launching the first version of the Meta AI app: the assistant that gets to know your preferences, remembers context and is personalized to you.
Artificial Intelligence, Meta
98 points by friggeri 24 days ago | 109 comments
Meta is laying off employees in Reality Labs (theverge.com)
Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed.
Meta, Layoffs, Reality Labs, Virtual Reality
11 points by imadj 25 days ago | 0 comments
FTC v. Meta, Inc. (DDC 2020) Trial Exhibits (app.box.com)
FTC, Meta, Law, Legal Documents, Court Case
4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 26 days ago | 1 comments
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
531 points by FinnLobsien 29 days ago | 923 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 29 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 30 days ago | 5 comments
EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M (politico.eu)
EU, Fines, Apple, Meta, Tech
132 points by nottorp 30 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
447 points by Aldipower 30 days ago | 595 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 31 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
29 points by rntn 33 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 33 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 35 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 36 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 36 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 37 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 38 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 39 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 39 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 40 days ago | 0 comments