Tag: Meta

Breakthrough puts Trellis Data in the AI fast lane

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Local startup Trellis Data claims to have built the world’s fastest AI decoding technique, allowing text to be generated more than three times quicker on popular large language models....

World-first social media ban for under-16s

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia will move to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the federal government expected to introduce world-first legislation to Parliament before the end of...

Rebuilding national competitive advantage

Posted on   |  by David McKeague
Australia has had a competitively thinning economy over the last 30 years. Australian corporates have reduced inhouse research and development – Telstra Research, Comalco Research, Wormald Research are just...

Social media giants are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Social media giants like Facebook and X are “vast surveillance” operations that collect, trade and hold troves of people’s data, the US consumer and competition watchdog has found after...

Meta dismisses AI scraping concerns as semantics

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Meta has defended its use of Australian users’ social media posts to train artificial intelligence without express consent, arguing that only publicly available data from its platforms is fed...

Meta admits scraping Australian users’ posts to train AI

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian Facebook users’ posts from as far back as 2007 are being used to train Meta’s artificial intelligence models, the company conceded on Wednesday at a tense Senate inquiry...

‘On the table’: Meta still dangling news block threat

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Meta is still threatening to block news content on its platforms in Australia, telling lawmakers on Wednesday that all options are “on the table” if the government does try...