Meta Platforms on Thursday released early versions of its latest large language model, Llama 3, and an image generator that updates pictures in real time while users type prompts, as it races to catch up to generative AI market leader OpenAI.The models will be integrated into virtual assistant Meta AI, which the company is pitching as the most sophisticated of its free-to-use peers. The assistant will be given more prominent billing within Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger apps as well as a ...

We’re interested in hearing from people who have made a booking for accommodation on an online travel platform, only for their host to cancel it at the last minute.Earlier this year, Taylor Swift fans in Australia were left without accommodation after Airbnb hosts cancelled their bookings. Airbnb’s “host cancellation policy” does not seem to have deterred hosts from then relisting their properties at a higher price. Has something similar happened to you? Are you a Swiftie whose plans to watch her European t ...

Tesla on Wednesday asked its shareholders to once again approve CEO Elon Musk‘s record-breaking $56bn pay that was set in 2018, but was rejected by a Delaware judge in January.The compensation includes no salary or cash bonus, but sets rewards based on Tesla’s market value rising to as much as $650bn over the next 10 years. Tesla is now valued at over $500bn, according to LSEG data.Musk’s pay was rejected by Kathaleen McCormick of Delaware’s court of chancery, who termed the compensation granted by the boar ...

An internal service for Boeing employees to raise safety and quality concerns has “exploded” this year, an executive claimed, after a whistleblower said he endured retaliation for speaking up.The planemaker has come under intense scrutiny since a terrifying cabin panel blowout in January prompted fresh questions about the production of its bestselling commercial jet, the 737 Max.But the Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating allegations by Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour that the manufacturing g ...

Tesla is reportedly laying off more than 10% of its global workforce, equivalent to at least 14,000 roles.The electric carmaker’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said he had made “the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally”, in a memo reported by the online publication Elektrek. Tesla employs 140,473 people, according to its annual report.Musk wrote that Tesla had grown rapidly in recent years and that as a result there had been “duplication of roles and job functions in certain ar ...

US airline regulators have launched an investigation after an engine cowling on a Boeing plane fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap.The Southwest Airlines Flight 3695 returned safely to Denver international airport at about 8.15am local time (15.15 BST) on Sunday and was towed to the gate. The Boeing aircraft with 135 passengers and six crew members aboard had been headed to Houston. No one was injured.The airline said maintenance teams are reviewing the aircraft.The plane entered service in Jun ...

Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced major changes to its policies on digitally created and altered media on Friday, before elections poised to test its ability to police deceptive content generated by artificial intelligence technologies.The social media giant will start applying “Made with AI” labels in May to AI-generated videos, images and audio posted on Facebook and Instagram, expanding a policy that previously addressed only a narrow slice of doctored videos, the vice-president of content ...

With US electric vehicle sales starting to slow, Ford Motor Co says it will delay rolling out new electric pickup trucks and a new large electric SUV as it adds gas-electric hybrids to its model lineup.The Dearborn, Michigan, company said on Thursday that a much ballyhooed new electric pickup to be built at a new factory in Tennessee will be delayed by a year until 2026.The big electric SUV, with three rows of seats, will be delayed by two years until 2027 at the company’s factory in Oakville, Ontario, near ...

Tesla posted a fall in deliveries for the first time in nearly four years and missed Wall Street estimates, a sign that the effects of its price cuts are waning as the automaker battles rising competition and softer demand.Tesla’s shares have fallen nearly 30% in value so far this year, sliding 5.7% in early trading on Tuesday.The world’s most valuable automaker handed over about 386,810 vehicles in the three months to 31 March, down 20.2% from the prior quarter. It produced 433,371 vehicles during the peri ...

Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser’s incognito mode.Users alleged that Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly track people who set Google’s Chrome browser to “incognito” mode and other browsers to “private” browsing mode.They said this turned Google into an “unaccountable trove of information” by letting it learn about their frien ...