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Analysis
AI Weekly: Tech, power, and building the Biden administration
Facebook’s redoubled AI efforts won’t stop the spread of harmful content
Guest
Pandorabots’ Bot Battle highlights lack of industrywide metrics for open domain AI
Android gains support for hardware-accelerated PyTorch inference
AI research finds a ‘compute divide’ concentrates power and accelerates inequality in the era of deep learning
VB Lab Insights
7 steps to boost mobile game revenue — without impacting your game
Facebook claims its proposed payments network is 7 times faster than Visa’s
Researchers develop AI that solves a matrix-based visual cognitive test
Facebook beats analyst estimates for Q3 2020 revenue despite ad boycotts
U.S. Senate hearing to reform Section 230 internet law becomes political showdown
Facebook unveils free-to-play cloud gaming service
AI Weekly: Constructive ways to take power back from Big Tech
Facebook’s long-delayed content removal Oversight Board is now accepting appeals
Facebook’s open source M2M-100 model can translate between 100 different languages
Facebook opens Messenger API to Instagram messaging for businesses
Japan to join the U.S. and Europe in regulating Big Tech over market abuses
Opinion
ProBeat: Shame on tech companies that don’t give employees time off to vote
Analysis
The DeanBeat: How the ad ecosystem will cope with Apple’s IDFA changes
Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies
Facebook and Carnegie Mellon launch project to discover better ways to store renewable energy
AppsFlyer: Facebook, Google, and Unity Ads dominate mobile advertising
Facebook bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines
Analysis
The DeanBeat: What’s at stake in Apple’s potentially apocalyptic IDFA changes
Analysis
How social media and gamification fueled QAnon’s ‘crowdsourced cult’
Facebook launches Hacker Plus loyalty program and FBDL bug description language
VB Lab Insights
Hardcore and midcore mobile gamers like rewarded video — if done right
Facebook bans all QAnon groups in bid to curb misinformation
U.S. Congress calls for antitrust reforms to limit powers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Antitrust chair says Congress will need the people’s help to rein in powerful Big Tech companies
Facebook’s AI matches people in need with those willing to assist
Senate panel votes to subpoena tech CEOs to testify over Section 230 legal immunity
FCC commissioner calls for scrutiny of subsea data cables that link to ‘adversary countries’
Facebook open-sources RAG, an AI model that retrieves documents to answer questions
Facebook takes a shot at Apple over stance on paid online events for game creators
Facebook’s Oversight Board to launch in October — but not for election cases
Facebook’s Dynabench aims to make AI models more robust through distributed human workers
After boycotts, advertisers and social media giants agree on steps to curb hate speech
Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ Chinese accounts for U.S. political interference
