Scale AI, the AI data labeling company, has appointed a former Google Cloud executive as its new CEO amid Meta's $15 billion investment for a 49% stake in the company. The leadership change comes as S…
Scale AI has appointed former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, signaling a shift from data labeling to enterprise AI applications. deSouza, who starts August 10, replaces interim CEO Jason Dro…
Meta reported a 14% drop in second-quarter profit to $18.3 billion despite a 28% revenue surge to $60.8 billion, driven by a 55% jump in costs to $42 billion from aggressive AI infrastructure spending…
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, now leading Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said at a Y Combinator event that AI agents have leveled the playing field for startups, enabling them to compete head-on wit…
Mark Zuckerberg warned against concentrating AI power in a few companies during a series of interviews, arguing that wider access to advanced AI produces more public value. Meta open-sourced Llama in …
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now leading Meta's superintelligence lab, spoke at Startup School 2026 about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, emphasizing talent density and the importanc…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta'…
An unverified social media post from July 26, 2026, claims Meta will launch an AI harness and open-source models, according to X user RK citing Alexandr Wang. The claim, which has not been confirmed b…
Meta and Snapchat are facing a privacy backlash over their AI-powered smart glasses, with critics drawing parallels to the failed Google Glass. Meta updated its glasses after reports that owners paid …
Meta hired Assaf Keren as its new chief information security officer from Qualtrics and PayPal, replacing Guy Rosen who announced his departure in June after 13 years. Keren said he would focus on bui…
Meta's Muse Spark scored 42.8 on HealthBench Hard, more than double Gemini 3.1 Pro's 20.6, while remaining free on meta.ai and pricing its API at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million o…
Google faces criticism from rivals after delaying its next frontier AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, while rolling out three faster, cheaper models. Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang posted 'gemini who?'…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on OpenRouter on July 9, but restricted access to US developers only, according to Meta's developer announcement. The open-weight, multimodal coding model is priced at $1.…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 and the Meta Model API, its first paid developer access tier, pricing the multimodal AI model roughly 25% cheaper than comparable offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic to at…
Meta pulled its Muse Image AI feature from Instagram three days after launch following backlash from SAG-AFTRA, talent agency CAA, and actors including Hannah Einbinder. The tool, the first from Meta …
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, allowing users to generate AI images of public Instagram accounts by tagging them, with opt-out consent and no notification. After backlash from CAA and SAG-A…
Mark Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to announce Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model, now available via a paid developer API. The model is designed for agentic AI tasks, priced significantly lower …
Meta faces backlash over a series of controversial AI and privacy decisions, including launching an AI image generator that uses Instagram photos, facing EU fines for addictive platforms, and adding f…
Meta Platforms Inc. launched Muse Spark 1.1, a proprietary AI model optimized for coding and autonomous agent workflows, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise market. The model, priced ag…
SemiAnalysis projects Meta will hold more AI compute capacity than OpenAI or Anthropic by end of 2026, driven by multi-gigawatt datacenters and a $14.3 billion Scale AI stake. The firm also predicts M…