While recruiting continues to evolve, the top priority for talent acquisition remains the same: Hire qualified candidates — fast. At Talent Connect 2023, we announced Recruiter 2024, our new AI-assisted recruiting experience to help talent acquisition professionals do just that. Over the last few months we’ve started to roll out major AI-powered innovations to help…
We introduced View Once for photos and videos back in 2021 to add another layer of privacy to your messages. Today, we’re excited to announce you can now send a voice message that will disappear once listened to. For reading out your credit card details to a friend, or when you’re planning a surprise, you…
Today we have launched Creator Lab in India, an educational resource designed specifically for creators, by creators. This initiative aims to provide support to young people across India who are interested in content creation. Since 2019 we have been investing in educational resources for creators. Our creator education and enablement program, Born on Instagram, facilitates…
Talent density. It’s a term that’s been popping up in LinkedIn feeds and recruiting newsletters a lot over the past couple of months. Here at the Talent Blog, we recently wrote about talent density, diving into a short history of the term and laying out some of its pros and cons as a talent strategy….
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today we have a look at how YouTube’s new AI rules will (and will not) affect podcasting, another late-night host ditching TV for audio, and a bunch of your recs on podcasts covering the Israel-Hamas war. What do YouTube’s new AI…
Today Meta and Christian Louboutin filed a joint lawsuit against an individual running a counterfeiting operation from Mexico. The defendant was using digital platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, to promote the sale of counterfeit Christian Louboutin products. The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, claims the defendant violated…
Roz Francuz-Harris, vice president of talent acquisition at Zillow, has a simple reason for using AI so much in her work: “I love my family,” she told the audience during her recent Talent Connect talk. “AI is one of the tools I leverage to get time back to be with them.” But Roz — who…
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy recently shared the platform’s future planned updates and improvements for 2024, with the goal of boosting user experience and community participation. Plus, even though Twitch faced difficulties in 2023, such as policy changes and layoffs, Clancy reiterated the company’s dedication to being a community-focused livestreaming service. Redesigning the Twitch mobile app…
Now, YouTube confirms advertisers can broadly target your paused screentime: “As we’ve seen both strong advertiser and strong viewer response, we’ve since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers,” YouTube comms manager Oluwa Falodun confirms to The Verge. Technically, YouTube started piloting pause ads in 2023 with a limited selection of advertisers, but Google…
Figure 1 – Example of an Embeddings Graph Embedding based retrieval (EBR) is a method that is used at the early stages of a recommendation or search system. It efficiently searches among a very large set of possible items (such as jobs or feed posts), returning items that are relevant to the request based on…
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In the wake of increasing misinformation related to the Israel-Hamas war now circulating on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, a number of journalists are building up their networks on rival platforms. The shift, though potentially small in terms of raw user numbers, could have an outsized impact on X, where power users create…
Olivia Wu, Meta’s Technical Lead for Infra Silicon, discusses the design and development of Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator. With the recent launches of MTIA v1, Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator, and Llama 2, the next generation of Meta’s publicly available large language model, it’s clear that Meta is focused on advancing AI for a…