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Ridgewood NJ, last week began with news of a lawsuit from comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors against OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. They claim the companies trained their artificial intelligence software using the authors’ copyrighted work without permission.
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Ridgewood NJ, Facebook employees, who have been colloquially known as ‘Facebookers’, will now be known as ‘Metamates’. Zuckerberg tells Facebook employees they are now ‘Metamates’ .The change comes after an all-hands meeting detailing the company’s new direction. Facebook is not the only company that uses these types of phrases to refer to its employees. The new nickname for workers comes with new company values such as being direct and respectful of colleagues.
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Ridgewood NJ, Facebook reported its first-ever quarterly decline of global daily users and lower-than-expected ad growth at an earnings call on Wednesday. The news resulted in a massive stock drop that wiped out roughly $200 billion in market value. Its drop in daily users may be due to Facebook’s increasing lack of relevance with young people. Meta is still wildly profitable, making nearly $40 billion last year. It plans to release its next VR headset later this year.
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