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Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

Mickey Vernon

Managing such a gargantuan array of chips to develop Llama 4 is likely to present unique engineering challenges and require ...

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

Mickey Vernon

A few years ago I wrote about how, when planning my wedding, I’d signaled to the Pinterest app that I ...

Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?

Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?

Mickey Vernon

Ball adds that the speed at which brands wanted to act, without a real plan or understanding of the space, ...

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

Mickey Vernon

This week Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. For months, the ...

Mark Zuckerberg Says Biden Officials Were ‘Wrong’ To Pressure Meta To ‘Censor’ COVID Posts

Mark Zuckerberg Says Biden Officials Were ‘Wrong’ To Pressure Meta To ‘Censor’ COVID Posts

Addrew Shawn

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he regrets not speaking out more forcefully about the pressure his company received ...

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

Mickey Vernon

In R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event ...

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Mickey Vernon

Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the ...

Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen

Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen

Mickey Vernon

A majority of US TikTok creators don’t believe the platform will be banned within a year, and most haven’t seen ...

B.C. cuts deal with Meta, Google on youth safety, emergency info

B.C. cuts deal with Meta, Google on youth safety, emergency info

Adesola Mojo

The B.C. government and social media giants have made what they call a “historic collaboration” for youth safety online. A ...