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).
Meta is launching a $19.99 monthly subscription called Meta One Premium that rate-limits AI features on its smart glasses, including Conversation Focus, which requires no internet connection. Critics …
Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski argued that AI safety rhetoric is being used to concentrate power, not prevent harm, citing Anthropic's reversed decision to silently degrade res…
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-t…
Meta faces two core problems: an advertising-dependent business model and massive AI infrastructure costs without a direct monetization path. The company's failed acquisition of enterprise AI firm Man…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company's AI reorganization over the past four months has not accelerated agent development as expected, admitting that the execution of job cuts and t…
Debates over whether digital platforms have created a new economic system called 'technofeudalism' are intensifying, with critics arguing that platform power, behavioral capture, and rent extraction f…
A security researcher discovered that Apple's Hide My Email service has a vulnerability that exposes users' real email addresses, affecting 100% of tested addresses. The flaw was reported to Apple in …
BlackRock launched a $100 million initiative to train 50,000 skilled trades workers for the AI boom, partnering with companies like Walmart and Google to address infrastructure labor shortages. The fi…
Actor Preity Zinta moved the Bombay High Court seeking removal of AI-generated deepfake videos, morphed images, and unauthorized chatbot personas using her likeness. Justice Madhav Jamdar directed par…
India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to summon Meta officials over Instagram ads allegedly promoting child sexual abuse material, follow…
The US government took two major steps toward regulating AI as national infrastructure this week: the FTC opened a comment period proposing that undisclosed AI output manipulation may constitute consu…
A developer explains that function calling is the core mechanism enabling AI agents to perform external actions like sending emails or querying databases. The quality of tool definitions—name, descrip…
Bilawal Sidhu, a former Google AR/VR product manager, built a 4D scene reconstruction called IronSight using footage from two pairs of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI mode…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to employees that the company's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, despite a $145 billion capital commitment and a restructuring that eliminated 10…
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index fell 6.3% on July 1, 2026, its steepest single-day drop, as AI-memory stocks Micron and Sandisk each dropped about 10% and equipment makers KLA, Lam…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview autonomously discovered over 23,000 software vulnerabilities via Project Glasswing, while the open-source community launched cost-optimization tools for AI coding age…
Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta, raised over $1 billion in seed funding for his startup AMI Labs to develop world models, an AI architecture that learns causal reasoning from raw observa…
A wave of investment and product pivots toward world models is reshaping AI development, with Runway raising $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation for world-model pretraining and Yann LeCun launchi…
LangChain released the fourth installment of its learning series, explaining how to build AI workflows using Chains and the LangChain Expression Language (LCEL). The article demonstrates Simple, Seque…
The federal government is prioritizing artificial intelligence over people and the planet by implementing an 'AI First' national strategy, dismantling environmental protections to accelerate data cent…