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).
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three tiers (Luna, Terra, Sol) alongside a new voice model and ChatGPT Work agent, drawing praise for performance gains. However, the departure of board member Fidji Simo ha…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of product and business, is stepping down due to a severe exacerbation of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). She will remain as a part-time advisor. CEO Sam Al…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 with three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna) and ChatGPT Work, a unified professional agent, while Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and Anthropic shifted to usage-based billing for Claude F…
OpenAI's Noam Brown argued at ICML that next-generation models will absorb the agent harness, but the week's releases—including Bun's Rust rewrite via Claude Code and ChatGPT Work with GPT-5.6—show mo…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family built a complete, playable Flappy Bird clone in Godot with zero GDScript errors across all three variants on July 9, with Luna costing $0.17, Terra $1.15, and Sol $1.59, while …
AI data centers are emitting illegal levels of air pollution in communities with little public oversight, as exemplified by xAI's Colossus 2 facility in Mississippi, which installed 33 gas turbines wi…
Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong plans to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in the US in late July to deepen their AI chip alliance, following a series of meetings that have boosted Sams…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, is stepping down from her full-time role to become a part-time adviser after taking medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition. Simo joined OpenAI in…
OpenAI's applications chief Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role to a part-time advisory position due to a chronic neurological condition called POTS, raising concerns about leadership …
Instagram has launched a new AI image generation feature that allows users to create visuals from public photos by tagging accounts in prompts, running on Meta's Muse Image model. The feature is enabl…
Meta launched Muse Image in early July, a generative AI feature that uses public Instagram photos to create images, automatically opting in adult public accounts without notification. Privacy groups c…
Meta has patented a wearable device that continuously records audio and uses AI to infer the wearer's emotional state from vocal cues like sighs and laughter, with the stated purpose of refining worko…
OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 family of models on Thursday, featuring three variants—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The models are positioned as OpenAI's strongest…
A quantitative scenario analysis of the AI industry from 2026 to 2030 finds that memory scarcity, open-weight models, and inference efficiency gains are restructuring the sector. The study projects a …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to double the company's AI computing infrastructure to 14 gigawatts by 2027, with spending up to $145 billion, according to an internal memo. The massive buildout includ…
Meta's new AI image generator, Muse Image AI, allows users to generate photos of public Instagram profiles without notifying those users, sparking privacy concerns from advocates.…
Meta is using Instagram users' public photos by default to power a new AI image tool called Muse Image, allowing strangers to remix pictures without consent. Privacy advocates warn the feature could e…
At least 22 professors and researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard have left or taken leave in 2026 to join OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta, accelerating a brain drain from acade…
Meta's stock rose 8% after reports that it is exploring a cloud business to sell excess AI computing power and developing a custom AI chip called Iris, easing investor fears about its massive infrastr…
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 open-weight model outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi K-2.6 in enterprise agentic development trials, but its limited hosting options—only available through small US, Chinese, and…