Inside Meta's attempts to play catch-up with AI

WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage

A veritable garden of linters and type checkers has blossomed in the Python ecosystem. Pyright and Mypy are two of the most popular, while Astral’s ty and Meta’s Pyrefly are two promising Rust-based newcomers. We compared early-stage ty and Pyrefly last June. One year later, Meta has released Pyrefly 1.0. Pyrefly is intended to stand out from the pack by way of a few key features. It’s written in Rust for performance and memory efficiency, and it has a number of intriguing forward-looking features, some still experimental. Setting up Pyrefly Pyrefly installs into a Python environment like any other Python type checker (pip install pyrefly) and brings with it no additional dependencies. Visual Studio Code users can work with Pyrefly via an extension, but the extension doesn’t give you access to the command-line tools offered by Pyrefly when it’s installed in a project venv. You can start using Pyrefly right away, with no actual setup. If Pyrefly detects no configuration for a given pro

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Can Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta buy its way into the AI game?

The exploit affected hundreds of accounts and raises new questions about what happens when companies automate account security.

Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta study whether AI could become conscious — and what follows for humans if it does

Breach confirmed by Meta raises concerns about how safe it is to rely on AI for key security measures such as passwords Hackers used Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to infiltrate high-profile Instagram accounts, the company confirmed on Monday, saying it had resolved the problem after researchers exposed it. The targets ranged from Barack Obama’s White House account to Sephora and the US Space Force Chief Master Sergeant, according to reporting from 404 Media. Everyday users complained of similar hijackings on Reddit and X over the weekend. Continue reading...

Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit.