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 will notify parents if its AI chatbot detects a teenager discussing self-harm or suicide, with flagged chats undergoing human review before alerts are sent. The feature, available in the UK, US, …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mocked Anthropic's new ad campaign, saying he initially thought the video was a satire, not an official advertisement. The ad, titled 'There’s Hope in Hard Questions,' features d…
Publishers and e-commerce brands are testing a new deception tactic called LLM honeypotting to fight AI crawlers, luring bots into useless content to drive up their compute costs and pollute their mod…
Meta removed a feature that let Instagram users tag others to generate AI images of them, citing privacy concerns. The change follows criticism over potential misuse of the tool for creating non-conse…
Kioxia Holdings Corp.'s market value has nearly halved from its June peak, with shares falling roughly 38.7% after reports that Meta Platforms Inc. plans to sell excess AI computing capacity and that …
A February 2026 study by MIT's Center for Constructive Communication found that three leading AI chatbots—OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, and Meta's Llama 3—deliver significantly worse answ…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy disclosed during the company's Q1 2026 earnings call that Amazon's custom AI silicon business has secured over $225 billion in multi-year revenue commitments, driven primarily by…
Schema Labs' new inference harness, Schema, achieves 98.98% on the ARC-AGI-3 Public benchmark using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5/Opus 4.8 without modifying model weights, demonstrating that agentic syst…
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the lead regulator for Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft in the EU, is expected to apply the highest scrutiny to major tech platforms' AI systems under the…
Big Tech companies are lagging behind AI buildout suppliers in 2026 stock performance, with Alphabet up 18.7%, Amazon 10.5%, Meta 3.4%, and Microsoft down 17.8% year-to-date, while Micron alone added …
Elon Musk announced that X will open-source its entire codebase with no exceptions after a security audit, a first for Tier-1 internet platforms. The plan includes independent third-party auditors ver…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that scored 93.5% on GPQA Diamond and 91.2% on BrowseComp, positioning it near frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The m…
Leapd, an AI platform that builds and runs businesses 24/7, enables founders to launch new ventures from a single sentence or grow existing ones by automating operations across channels. Users report …
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.…
National security concerns, not market forces, will determine the outcome of the US-China AI race, according to a commentary in The Business Times. The article notes that while Chinese AI models are c…
Activist group Everyone Hates Elon has taken over two London bus stops with fake ads for Meta's smart glasses, including one that uses an optical illusion to turn Kylie Jenner's face into a dystopian …
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has hired former OpenAI VP of Product Policy Ryan Beiermeister as a partner on its investment team, effective July 16. Beiermeister, …
Thinking Labs, the AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched its first open-weight model Inkling on Wednesday, positioning it as a generalist model capable of reasoning across text, im…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has postponed the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model by several months after internal testing revealed performance shortfalls, particularly in coding tasks, according to a Bl…
Google has delayed the release of its flagship AI model Gemini 3.5 Pro from June to July 2026 to improve coding capabilities, according to current and former employees. The delay has frustrated engine…