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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

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People select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.” Instagram then finds overlaps with friends who chose the same things.

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Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users

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X, meanwhile, has north of 600 million monthly active users, according to previous statements made by its former CEO, Linda Yaccarino.

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Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms

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WaveForms, founded just eight months ago, last raised $40 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz that valued the company at $160 million pre-money, per PitchBook data.

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Enterprises prefer Anthropic’s AI models over anyone else’s, including OpenAI’s

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Anthropic holds 32% of enterprise LLM market share by usage. This is a sharp reversal from just two years ago when OpenAI held 50%.

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Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future

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Mark Zuckerberg really believes AI glasses will be the ideal way to blend the physical and digital worlds together.

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Meta to spend up to $72B on AI infrastructure in 2025 as compute arms race escalates

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Meta is pouring money into the physical and technical infrastructure needed to scale its AI ambitions. The company said Wednesday in its second-quarter earnings report that it plans to more than double its spend on building AI infrastructure – like data centers and servers.

“We currently expect 2025 capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, to be in the range of $66-72 billion…up approximately $30 billion year-over-year at the midpoint,” Meta said.

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Zuckerberg: AI increased the time spent on Facebook and Instagram in Q2

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Overall, Meta estimated that over 3.4 billion people used one of its “family of apps.”

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Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

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Meta is shifting how it plans to ensure widespread access to superintelligence, a suggestion that the company’s most advanced AI may remain closed so that Meta can stay in the driver’s seat.

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Google says UK government has not demanded an encryption backdoor for its users’ data

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Google refused to tell a U.S. senator whether the company had received a secret U.K. surveillance order demanding access to encrypted data, similar to an order served on Apple earlier this year.

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Google won’t say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data

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Google said it has “never built a backdoor” for its services, but refused to rule out that it had received a secret U.K. surveillance order demanding access to encrypted data.

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