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Up First briefing: Meta's free AI; Trump's legal troubles; a scary fish's teeth

Facebook's parent company has released its newest AI for free. Trump says he's a target in the Jan. 6 insurrection investigation. An Oklahoma boy finds a piranha-like fish with human-like teeth.

WEKU

A.I. is ‘quite stupid,' top exec at Facebook parent company Meta insists

"They literally try and guess the next word in response to a prompt that you give them," Meta's president of global affairs said. "They have no innate autonomous intelligence at all.”

Fortune

Nick Clegg defends release of open-source AI model by Meta

Head of global affairs at Facebook owner claims AI’s development is running behind ‘hype’ about its risks

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Meta is lifting the curtain on Facebook and Instagram’s elusive recommendation algorithms

Meta unveils "system cards" and expands content explanation feature to address user concerns about Facebook and Instagram algorithms.

Fortune

Meta to AI skeptics: We come in peace

Facebook's parent company says it's aiming for transparency as it lays out how it uses AI in its products.

Axios

Nicola Mendelsohn battled an incurable cancer on her way to becoming a top Meta exec. Now she’s trying to solve the Facebook parent’s growth crisis

The head of Meta's global business group was promoted amid Meta's "efficiency" layoffs, its first year-over-year drop in revenue, and a grim economy for advertisers. Can she turn things around?

Fortune

TechScape: Warnings of a ‘splinternet’ were greatly exaggerated – until now

In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?

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Meta fined $1.3bn over transfer of EU user data to the US

Facebook, Instagram owner says ruling ‘flawed, unjustified, sets a dangerous precedent for countless other companies’.

Al Jazeera

Facebook owner Meta fined £1billion for breach in user data rules

The record fine was levied after a three-year probe

Wales Online

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it?

The CEO of the social media giant has spent billions – and still no one understands the idea. But now the world’s richest firm could change the game

The Guardian - UK

Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t like talk of a hung parliament, but he needs to prep for one

The legacy of the 2019 defeat makes it very challenging for Labour to get to a parliamentary majority in one go

The Guardian - UK

What a Labour-Lib Dem coalition might look like

Keir Starmer has set hares running over a possible Liberal Democrat-Labour coalition after the next election by refusing to categorically rule out such a deal.

The Week

WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told

‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawn

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer is right to U-turn on tuition fees. The funds will be better spent elsewhere

Nursery education is in crisis, schools and FE colleges are neglected. Only by funding these properly will Labour improve standards, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Labour having 'Nick Clegg moment' over tuition fees, say SNP

LABOUR have been accused of having a “Nick Clegg moment” after appearing to U-turn on free tuition for university students.

The Independent UK

Main Westminster parties offer no hope to young people, says SNP’s Flynn

Stephen Flynn, the party’s leader in Westminster, criticised Labour’s decision to drop its commitment to abolish tuition fees.

Fortune

Meta's Nick Clegg: No 'level playing field' between Facebook, TikTok

"Companies like Meta are not able to operate our social media services in China,” said the Meta executive in an interview aired Tuesday.

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump returns to Instagram for first time since Capitol attack

Ex-president promoted the second edition of his digital playing cards on the platform after Meta lifted his ban in January

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Scrap your tuition fees pledge, Labour, and end middle-class handouts

Tuition fees is the exploding bomb of British politics. It can go off in the hands of an unsuspecting leader and even lead, as in the case of poor Nick Clegg of the Lib Dems, to being forced to flee to Facebook. When he was running to be leader of…

The Guardian - UK

Employee ownership is the heart and soul of John Lewis – losing that would destroy it

Yes, its customers could buy cheaper beans or bras elsewhere. But there’s a trust tied up in its ownership structure which is now under threat, says Gemma Goldfingle, editor of Retail Gazette

The Guardian - UK

Sheffield city council behaved dishonestly in street trees row, inquiry finds

Report says events surrounding felling of thousands of trees was a ‘dark episode in Sheffield’

Daily Mirror

Jared O'Mara will find prison 'difficult' and 'believes he did nothing wrong' says ex-aide

Jared O'Mara's political career is one of the most chaotic episodes in modern politics. Here's how he went from local bar DJ to being jailed for tens of thousands in fraud

Reason

The New York Times Warns That Freedom of Speech 'Threatens Public Health' and 'Democracy Itself'

The paper is unfazed by First Amendment objections to the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation" on social media.

Tribune News Service

Donald Trump reinstated on Facebook and Instagram

Former President Donald Trump’s suspensions on Facebook and Instagram have been lifted, more than two years after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, parent company Meta confirmed Thursday.

The Independent UK

Jared O’Mara’s rise and fall from stunning election win to cocaine, vodka and fraud

O’Mara stunned the political world by beating Nick Clegg at the 2017 general election - he now faces prison

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