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).
Open-weight AI models are reaching a tipping point this summer, with Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 priced at $0.10/$0.20 per MTok on its contributor tier and OpenAI cutting costs by 80% for its 5.6 Luna tier …
Linux 7.3 networking maintainers Jakub Kicinski and Paolo Abeni merged 632 net and 648 net-next patches, but say they are 'completely overwhelmed' by AI-generated low-priority fixes, with 1/3 to 1/2 o…
More than 100 companies, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Intel, Amazon, Meta, and Hugging Face, signed an open letter supporting open-weights AI, arguing that restricting access would only leave …
Nvidia has warned hyperscalers that AI server prices are rising more than 15%, driven by memory costs that have become a dominant component. TrendForce reported conventional DRAM contract prices jumpe…
Hyperscalers including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have issued over $170 billion in new debt in 2026, surpassing the $121 billion issued in all of 2025 and roughly quintupling their …
Meta released Muse Code on August 5, a terminal-based AI coding agent powered by its proprietary Muse Spark 1.2 model, which uses parallel sub-agents in isolated git worktrees to handle large codebase…
Camera-equipped AI smart glasses like the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 and Oakley Meta HSTN are facing backlash due to privacy concerns, but smart glasses without cameras offer a more optimistic future, accordi…
A study by METR and assessments by the Future of Life Institute and SaferAI Ratings found that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta lack adequate plans to contain rogue AI models, as incidents in July 2026 saw…
Few top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans for rogue models, according to a study by Guidelight AI Standards, which graded OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI. Open…
RayNeo is removing cameras and speakers from its AI glasses to create a lightweight, text-focused heads-up display, prioritizing privacy and battery life over multimedia features. The company's design…
Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano warns that Big Tech's massive AI infrastructure spending, projected at hundreds of billions annually and potentially $3 trillion in total obligations, is misaligned with f…
Meta's codename Mango, a next-generation multimodal image and video generation AI model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) led by Alexandr Wang, was revealed during an internal Q&A session…
A senior industry observer likens the 2026 AI economy to a three-body problem, where frontier labs led by OpenAI and Anthropic, Chinese open-weight models from Zhipu and Moonshot, and application comp…
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have issued about $220 billion of bonds in 2026 through Aug. 10, according to BNP Paribas data cited by Reuters, as they finance an artificial-intelligence…
In 2026, 50 tech companies have cut a combined 170,777 jobs, averaging 13.7% of workforce per company, with AI adoption cited as the primary driver. Oracle conducted a 30,000-person restructuring, and…
Meta has launched a new social media app that replaces photos and reels with AI-generated video games, allowing users to create and play custom games. The app, announced by Meta, marks a shift toward …
Vertiv Holdings, an 80-year-old air conditioning company, has seen its market cap surge nearly 10x from under $11 billion to $109 billion since its IPO in early 2021, driven by its pivot to liquid coo…
Around Christmas 2025, AI engineers observed a sudden improvement in AI agents, which Lukasz Kaiser, co-inventor of the Transformer, attributed to a combination of harness changes, post-training, and …
A Hacker News discussion questions whether circular cash flows among top AI companies Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta should be banned due to systemic risks to the global economy, citing e…
South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has deployed a real-time AI-powered market surveillance system to detect unfair trading and price manipulation in cryptocurrency markets, using genera…