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).
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out …
Amazon Web Services announced a new pipeline using Amazon Nova foundation models to automatically redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in images, addressing compliance with regulations lik…
Netflix's 'A Man on the Inside' inadvertently illustrates the privacy concerns of AI-powered smart glasses, as the protagonist uses them to spy on non-consenting seniors. The show highlights the tensi…
Reddit is using large language models to combat spam, much of which is generated by LLMs, blocking 23 million spam views daily and catching 25,000 new spam posts per day. The platform reported a 20% r…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a $14 billion bet on AI glasses, predicting they will replace smartphones as the primary device within five years. The new glasses, designed from the ground up with …
Meta has introduced a $19.99 monthly subscription for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, limiting the 'conversation focus' feature to three hours per month unless users pay. The feature runs entirely on-devic…
Nvidia was ranked the top 'company of the future' by The Wall Street Journal, but analyst Horace Dediu argues the chipmaker's success is largely due to luck, comparing it to a lottery winner. Dediu no…
ServiceNow created AI-powered 'mind gyms' to help employees strengthen focus and mental agility, with a 'personal professor' guiding cognitive exercises and lifelike AI avatars for sales pitch practic…
A new analysis shows that layoffs at major tech companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Dell do not meaningfully fund AI infrastructure spending. At Meta, layoff savings cover only 2-6% of capital expendi…
Worldmodeldata, a Cambridge-based deeptech startup, raised £7 million in seed funding and appointed former Meta policy VP Chris Kelly to its board. The company aims to build the largest library of AI …
Meta appointed Denise Moreno as its new chief marketing officer and Alex Schultz as its first chief data officer, signaling a shift toward AI-driven marketing. The executives emphasized blending AI wi…
Meta is quietly launching Pocket, an AI-focused app that lets users generate small interactive apps and games called 'gizmos' via prompts and scroll through a feed of creations. The app follows Meta's…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on July 2 that autonomous AI agents have not accelerated as expected, admitting the company miscalculated on timing after a major restructuring. The admission r…
AI agent infrastructure is maturing but facing reliability challenges, as FlashAttention-4 achieves 71% utilization on NVIDIA's Blackwell B200 GPUs while agentic AI systems grapple with architecture q…
Anthropic may rent computing infrastructure from Meta in a deal valued at $10 billion, according to a report. The arrangement would give Anthropic access to Meta's stockpile of Nvidia H100 and B200 GP…
John Gruber criticized Claude's desktop app for being 800 MB, calling it an 'inside job' and comparing its construction oversight to a hammer manufacturer overseeing a building. He also slammed Meta a…
Meta is building a scheduled tasks feature for its Meta AI assistant on the web, allowing users to set recurring prompts like daily news digests or weekly summaries. The feature, spotted in recent bui…
Meta is launching a $19.99 monthly subscription called Meta One Premium that rate-limits AI features on its smart glasses, including Conversation Focus, which requires no internet connection. Critics …
Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski argued that AI safety rhetoric is being used to concentrate power, not prevent harm, citing Anthropic's reversed decision to silently degrade res…
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-t…