🚨 Meta pushes back its news-scraping terms three weeks, but the language still looks broad
Meta moved the effective date for its business account terms from October 30 to November 20 after publishers pushed back. It also dropped the word "train" and limited future scraped content to advertising and business products, but legal experts say the terms still allow wide scraping of sites tied to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads business accounts, with no opt-out.
Meta moved the effective date for its business account terms from October 30 to November 20 after publishers pushed back. It also dropped the word "train" and limited future scraped content to advertising and business products, but legal experts say the terms still allow wide scraping of sites tied to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads business accounts, with no opt-out.
Nieman Lab
Meta delays rollout of terms that would allow broad scraping of news sites. Legal experts are still skeptical.
Meta's new commercial terms will go into effect three weeks later than initially planned.
🚨 UK puts £100M into a "world first" AI biosecurity lab
The government says the lab will focus on AI-enabled biological risk. That's a public budget aimed at one specific misuse scenario, not a general safety fund.
The UK AI Security Institute already tests frontier models for chem and bio misuse.
The government says the lab will focus on AI-enabled biological risk. That's a public budget aimed at one specific misuse scenario, not a general safety fund.
The UK AI Security Institute already tests frontier models for chem and bio misuse.
BBC News
UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab
The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.