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).
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…
LMSYS Org launched a new leaderboard ranking AI models by a composite of human preference and factuality, with a default 25% weight on factuality. The system labeled over 2 million claims from 170,000…
Meta faces a lawsuit from 26 former employees who allege the company's internal AI system unfairly targeted workers with medical conditions and disabilities for layoffs during a recent round of job cu…
OpenAI faces a second legal battle in months, this time against Apple, which accuses the AI company of stealing intellectual property by asking former Apple employees and recruits to bring information…
Stanch, a dead-man's switch for automated services, released v0.2 with first-class acknowledgment and autonomous stop-playbook execution on missed ACK. The tool assumes a human might not respond to al…
The PyTorch-Triton 3.7 release introduces the Triton Plugin Extensions system, a framework for dynamically loading custom compiler passes, dialects, and DSL extensions into upstream Triton at runtime …
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, OpenAI moved GPT-5.6 to general availability, and Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 in a single week, marking a wave of new frontier competitors. Closed models now match or beat…
Reflection AI signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Amsterdam-based cloud provider Nebius, securing access to Nvidia's newest GB300 chips through 2029. The agreement marks Reflection's s…
AI is exposing the authoritarian structure of modern workplaces, where most people lack democratic control over their jobs, and is undermining the traditional education-to-employment bargain, accordin…
3M joined a Multi-Source Agreement coalition on May 12, 2026, to develop open standards for Expanded Beam Optical connectivity in AI data centers, alongside AMD, Arista Networks, Cisco, Meta, Molex, a…
Meta is facing a lawsuit from 26 current and former employees alleging the company used AI-assisted workplace monitoring tools, including keystroke tracking and digital activity data, to identify staf…
Twenty-six anonymous Meta employees filed suit in Oakland federal court on July 13, alleging the company's AI-powered ranking systems used productivity metrics that disproportionately flagged workers …
A new category of wearable devices combining open-ear headphones with built-in cameras is emerging, with products like Auriview's X1 and Rollme's Aircam offering AI-powered computer vision and audio p…
Nvidia's automotive division head Xinzhou Wu said on The Verge's "Decoder" podcast that internal teams still compete for scarce GPU supply, requiring CEO Jensen Huang to occasionally settle disputes. …
Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging the company used AI systems to select workers for mass layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical or family leave. The lawsuit, file…
PsiQuantum, a company founded in 2016 by four physicists from UK universities, plans to build the first useful quantum computer using light particles, housed in a room resembling a data center crossed…
Current and former employees have filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company used artificial intelligence to discriminate against workers during layoffs. The lawsuit claims Meta's AI-driven la…
The AI frontier has expanded from a two-horse race between Anthropic and OpenAI to a five-player contest in the US alone, with SpaceX's Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, and Alphabet's upcoming model j…