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Meta separates groups from Facebook and launches a new app
Meta said it is launching Forum, a standalone iPhone app focused on Facebook Groups. According to Meta, users log in with their existing Facebook account and groups, profiles and activity carry over, while groups remain in the main Facebook app. Forum adds pseudonymous posting, group-based feeds, built-in search/consultation (“Ask”), and an AI assistant for group managers.
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Pope Leo calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity
Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” calling for robust AI regulation and urging developers to prioritize the common good over profit, according to the Vatican. He said it is “not permissible” to let AI make irreversible lethal decisions and criticized concentration of power in private hands. The launch included Anthropic’s co-founder amid the firm’s legal dispute with the Trump administration.