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27Oct

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Meta Enters Into Paid Partnership With Reuters: Meta AI To Use News Content For Distribution

On Friday, Meta Platforms announced that its artificial intelligence chatbot will now utilize content from Reuters to provide real-time answers to user inquiries regarding news and current events. This marks another significant collaboration between a major tech company and a news publisher. However, neither Meta nor Reuters' parent company, Thomson Reuters, revealed any financial specifics related to the partnership. This deal represents Meta's first engagement with news content in several years, coinciding with a period during which the parent company of Facebook has been scaling back news offerings on its platforms. This reduction has come in response to criticism from regulators and publishers over issues like misinformation and disputes surrounding revenue-sharing arrangements. ALSO R...

19Oct

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Science

‘Self-Taught Evaluator’: Meta releases new AI tools for autonomous AI development – Times of India

Representative Image (Picture credit: Reuters) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unveiled a set of innovative AI models developed by its research division on Friday, reported Reuters.Among the standout tools is the "Self-Taught Evaluator," which may reduce the need for human involvement in the AI development process. This development is an important step towards creating AI systems capable of learning from their own mistakes, potentially paving the way for more autonomous and intelligent digital agents.In addition to the Self-Taught Evaluator, Meta also released updates to its image-identification Segment Anything model, a tool for accelerating response generation times in large language models (LLMs), and datasets designed to support the discovery of new inorganic materials.First intr...

15Oct

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Politics

Facebook and Instagram outage: Services restored after disruption affecting users worldwide – Times of India

Meta-owned social media platforms - Facebook and Instagram are back up after an outage impacting thousands of users worldwide. According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 5,000 reports of issues with Instagram at around 1:40 p.m. ET (11:10pm IST).The issue has now been resolved. Readers must note that Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports.The actual number of affected users may vary.Users turn to X to report outageDuring the outage, Instagram users reported about encountering the message “Something went wrong with Instagram. Instagram closed because this app has a bug. Try updating the app after its developer provides a fix for the bug”. Many took to microblogging site X to report t...

15Oct

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Politics

Facebook and Instagram outages impact thousands in US – Times of India

Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram users all around the US experienced significant outages on Monday, Downdetector website reported.Around 1:44 pm Eastern Time, users had reported over 8,000 issues with Facebook and more than 4,000 with Instagram.According to Downdetector, both Facebook and Instagram services were largely restored for most users after the disruption. At the peak of the outage around 1:35 pm ET, over 12,000 incidents were reported for Facebook, while for Instagram the numbers were more than 5,000 issues. As of 2:09 pm ET, reports started to decrease significantly, approximately 450 for Instagram and 659 for Facebook.Earlier this year, Meta global outage affected hundreds of thousands of users for more than two hours due to a technical issue, generating over 550,000 repor...

4Oct

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Politics

GOP Congressman faces backlash over 2006 blackface photos, claims it was ‘homage to Michael Jackson’ – Times of India

Republican representative Mike Lawler (Photo: AP) New York Congressman and Republican figure Mike Lawler is facing backlash after photographs surfaced showing him dressed in blackface at a Halloween party nearly two decades ago. The images, obtained by The New York Times, depict a 20-year-old Lawler, who is white, dressed as Michael Jackson with his face visibly darkened. The incident occurred in October 2006.Lawler, now 38, did not deny the authenticity of the images.In a statement, he showed regret but insisted that his costume was a tribute to his "musical hero," Michael Jackson, rather than an intentional act of racism. “The ugly practice of blackface was the furthest thing from my mind,” he said. “Let me be clear, this is not that. It was truly the sincerest form of flattery, a genuin...

30Sep

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British woman reveals harrowing childhood abuse in Osho’s ‘sex cult’ – Times of India

Prem Sangram opens up about her childhood experience in Osho's 'Ashrams' A British woman spoke about the sexual abuse she has endured since the age of six across 'ashrams' or 'Sannyasin' communities. In an interview with the Times, the 54-year-old woman talked about the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, commonly known by his alias 'Osho'.Prem Sangram was allegedly abused and raped multiple times as a child in a sex cult.Sargam explained how her parents joined the Osho-led Sannyasin spiritual movement when she was a young child. The movement propagated that children should regularly watch sex and that girls going through puberty should be guided by adult men on their sexual journeys.'It was considered good for the children to be exposed to sexuality,' she told The Times, explaining how ...