Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) faces fresh employee backlash over plans to collect detailed computer usage data to train its internal AI systems. After internal protests, Meta is revising the program to let staff pause monitoring and request exemptions from the data collection tools. Rights groups are raising privacy concerns, including the possibility of future disputes in Europe over how such data is gathered and used. For you as an investor, this sits at the intersection of Meta's core...
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Nvidia (NVDA) stock closed the June 1 trading session up 6.26% at $224.36. The stock is now up about 20.3% year to date, at the time of writing, Tuesday morning, June 2. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 Index (SPY) is up about 11.24% in the same period. While Nvidia was expected to outpace the ...
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Meta is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for use as AI training data, it said in an internal memo on Tuesday, following weeks of angry pushback from staffers. New controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time and request exemptions from the initiative, according to the memo, authored by Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment.
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Meta is tightening teen content settings as social media safety scrutiny grows.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the best stocks to buy now for long term growth. Reuters reported on May 29 that according to its internal documentation, Meta Platforms, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) plans to collect detailed records of computer usage by U.S. employees to train its AI models are more extensive than described initially, and are […]
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Meta announces the locations and scale of layoffs affected by the social media company's most recent round of cuts.