Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is a technology company that develops the open-source Llama series of large language models, alongside AI research at Meta AI (formerly FAIR).
A security news round-up highlights a fake Claude site that walks victims through an mshta command to pull malware from a lookalike domain, packaged as a Windows app named 'claude' or 'claude.msixbund…
Meta is preparing to launch Hatch, an autonomous consumer agent that performs online tasks such as filling out forms, making purchases, and booking restaurants, with unreleased materials revealing a b…
An open appeal to major tech and blockchain companies proposes a new computing core based on symmetric ternary logic and a P-Chain blockchain with a Proof-of-Tension consensus algorithm, claiming to s…
Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB to maintain data centers powering its AI systems, with machines that can swap cables, restart servers, and inspect equipment, according to …
Meta's Llama 3.1 405B model is no longer hosted by any public inference provider, according to a guide on a11ce.com, which provides instructions for running the model on an on-demand GPU instance for …
AT&T cut the cost of coding and other advanced AI tasks by as much as 56%, with quality declining only 2%, by using the open-source model router LiteLLM and shifting volume to open-weight models, acco…
OpenAI and 128 companies, including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and Oracle, issued an open letter on Friday urging businesses, governments, and institutions to act quickly to bolster cybersecurity a…
Elon Musk's X reported Thursday that it found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate debate about American AI and energy policy, suggesting a China-backed plot to influence Americans a…
Meta is rolling out an update to its AI glasses that will stop the camera if the LED indicator light is covered during recording, closing a loophole that allowed users to hide the recording light. The…
Meta has updated its AI glasses to prevent recording when users cover the safety light, addressing privacy concerns about nonconsensual recording. The change, reported by Ars Technica, comes as the co…
The Vergecast episode discusses Apple's new Mac Mini and Mac Studio with M6 and M5 Ultra chips, which Apple markets for AI inference but the hosts are skeptical. The episode also covers Meta's settlem…
A June Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only 14% of Americans would support a data center being built in their community, and on July 18, organizers held 142 protests across 42 states in the first nation…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's secret plan to replace thousands of human staffers with AI agents, codenamed Project Organization Transformation, backfired after the company laid off roughly 8,000 people i…
Meta launched Muse Code, a terminal-native coding agent, on 5 August 2026, built on the Muse Spark 1.2 model with a one-million-token context window and subagent orchestration for large repositories. …
OpenAI has hired Meta's India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, to oversee consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations across Southea…
Sohaib Malik, a software engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development, has published a GitHub Gist profile page. Malik's background includes residencies and certifications from Google, Mi…
Meta has launched a new update and marketing campaign to address backlash against its smart glasses, which have been nicknamed 'pervert glasses' for enabling non-consensual filming. The update ensures…
Meta's plan to replace human staff with artificial intelligence has collapsed under operational reality, according to an investigation, forcing a retreat from automation goals. The report highlights g…
Tencent released a preview of a new open-source AI model on Friday, targeting software engineering, research, and financial analysis tasks, and made it available on Hugging Face. The company did not d…
Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB to perform tasks such as plugging in cables, resetting servers, and power cycling inside its data centers, according to current and former …