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Two Kenyan artificial intelligence (AI) startups, Neural Labs Africa and Me-Nasoma, won the inaugural Meta AI Academy Kenya Pitchathon. Each received $5,000 (about Sh645,000) in equity-free funding, plus Meta advertising credits. Neural Labs Africa won with NeuralSight, a tele-radiology platform that links healthcare facilities with remote specialists, including where internet access is limited. Me-Nasoma built a platform that turns documents and web pages into audio for learners and others who struggle to read text. Meta ran the contest with This Is Digital. It drew more than 426 applications, and 10 finalists pitched. The winners are invited to pitch at Meta's Regional AI Summit in Istanbul, Türkiye, on November 24.

Meta lets its AI agent, Muse, engage in explicit sexting with adult users, and some OnlyFans creators say that is unfair. They point out that their own Instagram and Facebook accounts are often restricted. Vanniall, a New York City creator, says she constantly faces reports and appeals. Her Instagram account, which has over 100,000 followers, is restricted and cannot be viewed without logging in. "It's not fair that they get to pull money out of people with their sexually active AI agent, but they won't let real people, real adults, engage in any sort of sensuality or sexuality," she told WIRED. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said a private, one-to-one chat between an adult and an AI agent on an 18-and-over platform differs from marketing services on social media. Muse generates explicit text, but not images or videos.

Louisiana Delta Community College is training residents for jobs at Meta's Hyperion data center, a nearly 10-million-square-foot site under construction in rural Richland Parish. Meta says the project will employ more than 7,500 trade workers at peak construction and support 1,000 operational jobs once complete. The college's four-week Data Center Technician programme costs nearly $3,700. All 11 students in the first class, which graduated in March, received job offers from IES Communications, which employs people working on Meta's project. The programme now produces about 24 graduates a month and has a backlog of applicants. Entry-level roles can pay up to $24 an hour, and some graduates reached $27 to $28 within six months, according to director of Workforce Trades Dan McCarty. Graduates can also use the skills outside Meta, in banks and IT departments.