The legal action comes on the heels of a recently published CBS News investigation that found hundreds of ads for nudify apps across Meta’s platforms. Meta told CBS at the time

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The company is rolling out the editing tools to the Meta AI app, Meta.ai website, and its Capcut competitor, Edits, in the U.S. It said that the features were inspired by its Movie Gen AI models, but it’s not clear if the company is using those models to power the editing tools.

Meta Platforms Inc. has poached top engineers from multiple tech firms, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, for a new team focused on achieving a more advanced form of AI called artificial general intelligence.

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Meta agreed to pay $14.8 billion for a 49 percent stake in the AI data firm Scale AI, which will give the company access to talent and data services.

Meta said it has seen a troubling rise in so-called "nudify" apps, which use AI to create fake, non-consensual nude or sexually explicit images. In response, the company said it is ramping up enforcement efforts, including new measures to detect and remove such apps, help other platforms do the same and pursue legal action against their creators.

Meta on Wednesday announced it's rolling out a new AI "world model" that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.

The presets are presented similarly to how you would choose a filter on Instagram. You can have Meta AI restyle your clip as a video game or anime, make it appear as if it was taken in the desert, dress you in an AI-generated tuxedo,