Meta, Snap, and TikTok have founded a new program called Thrive to help stop the spread of graphic content depicting or encouraging self-harm and suicide. Thrive enables participating companies to share “signals” to alert each other of violating content on their platforms.

Meta has admitted it used Facebook and Instagram publicposts for Australian users to train its Artificial Intelligence models, and has scraped information from as far back as 2007. An Australian Parliamentary committee has heard that whilst European users can opt out thanks to GDPR laws,

In today’s edition…Meta admits only regulation will stop it from scraping user data to train its AI products; AI models get more multimodal (and more emotional); big tech splurges big on AI equipment.