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).
Qualcomm announced a series of AI initiatives, including the Dragonfly data center brand, acquisition of Modular to create an open platform, and a deal with Meta, aiming to disrupt Nvidia's dominance …
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiri…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors through Covalen to pose as minors and probe rival chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI with prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and self-harm, as part of a …
OutYet.ai, a platform tracking upcoming AI model releases, lists eight models from major labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, with most still unconfirmed or in development. Among the…
Roboflow released a guide on building a promptable object detection project using SAM 3, enabling users to detect objects like soda cans from text prompts without datasets or training. The workflow al…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was acces…
Meta's FAIR lab, in collaboration with Spain's BCBL, unveiled Brain2Qwerty, a non-invasive AI system that decodes typed sentences from brain activity with up to 80% character accuracy using magnetoenc…
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that translates brain activity into text with 61% average word accuracy, compared to 8% for previous non-invasive methods. The system uses a mag…
Arena, the UC Berkeley-born AI evaluation platform behind the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, tripled its annualized revenue from $30M to $100M in six months, but its business model of charging AI companie…
Meta's Fury AI Glasses, the company's cheapest and best smart glasses yet, face severe privacy concerns including unauthorized data collection for AI training and potential facial recognition features…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI investment boom could trigger a market crash if returns disappoint, noting that five major tech firms are on track to spend over $1 trillion o…
Meta relied on Google's Gemini models for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation until Google imposed capacity limits in March 2026, forcing Meta to ration AI tokens and shift workloads to…
Alphabet shares rose 4% Monday as the company joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon. Despite the milestone, Alphabet faces mounting AI costs, including $35.7 billion in Q1 capital…
Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives said Big Tech CEOs will not cut AI spending due to the competitive arms race, despite declining stock prices. Goldman Sachs projects $5.3 trillion in combined capex for M…
AI skeptic Gary Marcus warned that hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon could face low margins, intense competition, and high expenses, similar to airlines, as their massive capital…
Meta is restricting its engineers from using Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these rival AI tools from being incorporated into its own training data.…
Xgimi launched a Kickstarter for its MemoMind One smart glasses, which lack cameras for a discreet design but feature a green micro-LED display. Priced at $599, the glasses offer AI-powered informatio…
An investigation by conservation groups found thousands of illegal wildlife products, including pangolins, rhino horn, and endangered monkeys, being openly sold on Facebook, accusing Meta of hosting t…
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny outlined five job archetypes for the AI era—Prototyper, Builder, Sweeper, Grower, and Maintainer—arguing that traditional engineering, product, and design roles are me…
Meta has restricted its engineers from using Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex AI coding tools to protect proprietary AI training data and internal codebases from exposure. The policy, effect…