Company
Meta
Meta is the technology company behind Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Its business is built largely around social platforms and digital advertising, with artificial intelligence taking an increasingly prominent role.
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Meta's AI can make phone calls for you — with a human sometimes hiding behind it
Meta's new Muse agent promises to browse, negotiate and call businesses on a user's behalf. According to Reuters, an internal test adds an unexpected layer to that automation: human contractors can quietly handle some of those calls.
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Zuckerberg privately pushed back on a national AI regulator in a call with Trump
One of the most consequential US AI policy debates is apparently reaching the president by phone. According to reporting from Business Insider and POLITICO, Donald Trump called Mark Zuckerberg during the week of August 17 to discuss a proposed national AI oversight body. Zuckerberg told him he opposed that approach.
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Meta's trial is turning default settings into a product-design liability question
Software teams like to count shipped features. The Meta trial is examining something less flattering: whether a safety feature matters if almost nobody in the target group actually uses it.