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5 things about AI you may have missed today: 1st Hindi LLM OpenHathi, French Minister lauds India’s AI role, more

13Dec

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: 1st Hindi LLM OpenHathi, French Minister lauds India’s AI role, more

[ad_1] Today, December 13, marked another interesting day in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, especially in the Indian context. Indian startup Sarvam AI has launched the first Hindi language large language model (LLM) OpenHathi-Hi-v0.1. In other news, at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit, French Minister Delegate for Digital Affairs, Jean-Noel Barrot emphasized that India is playing a leading role in AI. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.OpenHathi LLM launchedSarvam AI, an Indian AI startup, has introduced OpenHathi-Hi-v0.1, the inaugural Hindi large language model (LLM) in the OpenHathi series, reported Moneycontrols. It is the first ever Hindi language LLM to be built. Developed on Meta AI's Llama2-7B architecture, the ...

Facebook owner Meta Platforms faces $600 million lawsuit from 83 Spanish media outlets

5Dec

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Facebook owner Meta Platforms faces $600 million lawsuit from 83 Spanish media outlets

[ad_1] A group representing 83 Spanish media outlets has filed a 550 million euro ($600 million) lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta Platforms, citing unfair competition in the advertising market in a case that could be replicated across the European Union.The AMI media association said in a statement on Monday the lawsuit was filed collectively by the newspapers with a commercial court on Friday, and allege Meta violated EU data protection rules between 2018 and 2023. The newspapers argue that Meta's "massive" and "systematic" use of personal data of its Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp platform users gives it an unfair advantage of designing and offering personalised ads, which they say constitutes unfair competition. Meta's press office did not immediately respond to a request for co...

Meta lawsuit claims Mark Zuckerberg ignored internal requests for child safety features

10Nov

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Meta lawsuit claims Mark Zuckerberg ignored internal requests for child safety features

[ad_1] At the end of the last month, more than 30 US States, including California, Massachusetts, Tennesse, and others, filed lawsuits against Meta Platforms over the allegations of using features on its social media platforms to lure children and teens and allegedly get them hooked on harmful content, while not doing enough to ensure their safety. The Massachusetts lawsuit was earlier updated and the submissions were made unredacted, meaning the general public can go through its content. The claims and allegations in the documents paint a grim picture of how Facebook and Instagram were run, and how Mark Zuckerberg reportedly handled situations relating to teens.Business Insider has reported after going through the Massachusetts filings and it has highlighted two particularly disturbing...

Instagram linked to depression, anxiety, insomnia in kids – US states’ lawsuit

25Oct

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Instagram linked to depression, anxiety, insomnia in kids – US states’ lawsuit

[ad_1] Dozens of U.S. states are suing Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the addictive nature of their social media platforms.In a complaint filed in the Oakland, California, federal court on Tuesday, 33 states including California and Illinois said Meta, which also operates Facebook, has repeatedly misled the public about the substantial dangers of its platforms and knowingly induced young children and teenagers into addictive and compulsive social media use. "Research has shown that young people's use of Meta's social media platforms is associated with depression, anxiety, insomnia, interference with education and daily life, and many other negative outcomes," the complaint said. The lawsuit is the latest in a ...

Dominance, data, disinformation: Europe’s fight with Big Tech

28Jul

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Dominance, data, disinformation: Europe’s fight with Big Tech

[ad_1] The European Commission, which announced Thursday an inquiry into Microsoft's promotion of its Teams messaging app, has fought US tech giants on fronts from tax avoidance, disinformation and hate speech to data privacy and monopolistic practices.Here is a summary of the tussles between Silicon Valley and Brussels. - Stifling competition -The European Commission on Thursday said it would investigate whether Microsoft was "abusing and defending its market position" by bundling its Teams app with its Office suite. It comes a month after the commission recommended that Google sell off part of its business following a two-year probe into its dominance of online advertising.If Google fails to comply it could face a fine of up to 10 percent of its global revenue under the 2022 Digital M...

Meta fined 390M euros in latest European privacy crackdown

5Jan

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Meta fined 390M euros in latest European privacy crackdown

[ad_1] European Union regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. European Union regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. Ireland's Data Protection Commission imposed two fines totaling 390 million euros ($414 million) in its decision in two cases that could shake up Meta's business model of targeting users with ads based on what they do online. The company says it will appeal. A decision in a third case inv...

Meta Gives Regulators a New Reason to Bite

24Nov

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Meta Gives Regulators a New Reason to Bite

[ad_1] The company appears not to know the full extent of what its systems do with users’ data. That could be a problem. For all the difficulties that Meta Platforms Inc. is going through with declining ad revenues, higher costs related to its risky investment in the metaverse and its first major restructuring, the company has been relatively lucky with privacy regulators.It has avoided the most detrimental fines under Europe's main privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, despite making billions of dollars from being one of the world's biggest processors of personal data. But that luck may be about to run out. Meta looks like it could struggle to comply with the European Union's upcoming antitrust law, which prohibits data combination and reuse. In a rece...