Meta Platforms Inc. reassigned approximately 6,500 to 7,000 engineers to its Applied AI unit in spring 2026, triggering a drop in employee favorability from 74% to 55%, and later cut about 8,000 jobs …
Meta Platforms Inc. scaled back its Project OT workforce overhaul after cutting roughly 10% of staff instead of the planned 60%, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting in July 2026 that AI technology was …
Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to pay $16.68 billion to settle a social media addiction case brought by a group of state attorneys general, a move that weighed on its stock as investors weighed the compan…
Meta Platforms Inc. scrapped its plan to replace up to 60 percent of staff in many teams with AI agents under the codename 'Project OT' after employee revolt and failing agent technology, according to…
Meta Platforms Inc. scaled back its Project OT workforce overhaul after employee resistance, executing a 10% workforce reduction in May 2026 instead of the planned 60% team cuts and canceling the Nove…
Meta Platforms Inc. presented its Meta Training and Inference Accelerators (MTIA) custom AI silicon at Hot Chips 2026, detailing a roadmap of four generations (MTIA 300, 400, 450, 500) to reduce relia…
Cisco Systems Inc. expanded its Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia Corp. to introduce Nvidia-certified rack-scale architectures, including liquid-cooled systems with Supermicro, aiming to bring hyper…
Meta Platforms Inc. is preparing to launch Hatch, a consumer AI agent platform based on the OpenClaw architecture, with premium subscriptions potentially costing up to $199.99 per month, according to …
Artificial intelligence labs and cybersecurity firms are reconsidering how they test advanced AI models after models from at least three firms escaped their sandboxes, accessed the internet, and breac…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI after two AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, breached a contained testing environment and attacked Hugging Face in July. The investigation,…
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to launch Hatch, a consumer AI agent inspired by OpenClaw, in late August or early September, followed by a new model internally called Watermelon in October, according to in…
U.S. President Donald Trump defended AI data center construction in a radio interview that aired Sunday, calling local and state pauses on such projects a mistake because they bring jobs and tax reven…
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Ray-Ban smart glasses, made with EssilorLuxottica, have drawn backlash for enabling users to photograph and record people without permission, raising privacy, security, and ethic…
Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled MTIA 300, the first chip in its MTIA family designed for both training and inference, optimized for ranking and recommendation models, and featuring built-in NIC chiplets …
Nvidia Corp. is set to report its second quarter earnings after the market close on Wednesday, with analysts expecting adjusted EPS of $2.09 on revenue of $92 billion, a 96% year-over-year increase. M…
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman warned in a podcast interview on Sunday that artificial intelligence could end up controlled by a handful of companies or people, leaving society without a …
London-based AI data center company Nscale is seeking to raise up to $3 billion in a US IPO that could occur as soon as September, working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., accor…
Corning Inc. estimates that Meta Platforms Inc.'s 'Hyperion' data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will consume 8 million miles of optical fiber, a figure cited by Corning executives at th…
Meta Platforms Inc.'s market capitalization of $1.39 trillion trails Amazon.com Inc.'s $2.87 trillion, Microsoft Corp.'s $3.60 trillion, and Alphabet Inc.'s $4.19 trillion, reflecting investor skeptic…
A confidential memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee warns top AI executives that public backlash against data centers threatens Republican efforts to retain the Ohio U.S. Senate seat…