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).
Investors are growing cautious about AI-related debt as global borrowing is projected to reach nearly $570 billion by 2026, according to Motley Fool. Major companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, …
A study of Llama-3 and Qwen-3 models found that supervised fine-tuning (SFT) establishes a model's value system, while subsequent preference optimization algorithms do not significantly alter alignmen…
Google, Meta, and a Reliance-led consortium are investing tens of billions of dollars in Visakhapatnam, India, to build gigawatt-scale AI data centers, transforming the port city into a major global t…
Cloudflare Workers AI enables static sites to add an LLM like Llama 3.3 70B without a backend or API keys, using a two-line binding in wrangler.toml. A developer integrated it into a PRD consulting la…
Meta is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that its AI systems illegally selected employees on protected leave for termination during a May 2026 layoff of roughly 8,000 workers. The 26 pl…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion total parameters under an Apache 2.0 license on July 15. The Mixture-of-Experts model processes text, aud…
A local LLM runs entirely on a user's own device instead of a vendor's cloud server, ensuring data never leaves the machine. Cisco's 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study found that 48% of organizations a…
Meta and MLC AI have released LlamaFile, a portable binary format that bundles an entire large language model with its inference engine into a single executable file, enabling users to run 100+ open-s…
Founder Bench (eico.so "acoco" live arena) pits five frontier models against each other by giving each four identical businesses to operate autonomously in the real world, with no human intervention. …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday banning for up to a year the construction of hyperscale AI data centers using more than 50 megawatts of power, the first statewide moratori…
Meta is accused in a lawsuit filed this week of using artificial intelligence to target employees for layoffs who had taken medical, disability or maternity leave. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Oakland…
Chinese open-weight AI models now capture 46% of enterprise token volume on developer routing platforms like OpenRouter and Vercel, according to platform data. The shift occurred as OpenAI released a …
Chinese neurotechnology firm Neuracle (Borui Kang Medical Technology) has performed the world's first successful surgical implant of a commercial brain-computer interface, a coin-sized device called N…
Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine-learning company for real-time recommendations and search, to accelerate live-shopping discovery. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI r…
Meta executives have spent weeks arguing that its NameTag face-recognition feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses does not exist, despite WIRED finding code for the feature in the Meta AI app as early as J…
26 Meta employees have filed a lawsuit in Oakland, California, alleging that the company used artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical …
Researchers at Meta, Stanford University, the University of Tokyo, and France's École Normale Supérieure developed the EgoBabyVLM Challenge, a test that reveals cutting-edge vision language models fai…
AI startup Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion parameters, as a Western alternative to popular Chinese open-source models. The San Francisco-based startup, fou…
Livestream shopping app Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine learning company specializing in real-time recommendation and search systems, to strengthen its discovery and personalization capabilities. T…
Spotify launched a conversational AI beta for Premium users aged 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden, allowing them to control playback and explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks through voic…