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).
Since the AI boom began in 2023, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have invested $1.1 trillion in AI infrastructure, with plans for another $745 billion this year, signaling a shift from asset-lig…
A Kentucky family rejected roughly $26 million from an unnamed Fortune 100 company for half of their 1,200-acre farm in Mason County to build an AI data center, joining a lawsuit to block the project.…
On August 10, Mark Zuckerberg published a letter titled "The Future for Everyone," advocating for wider distribution of AI access, but six global AI observers interviewed by Rest of World challenged h…
Meta has shipped a native macOS app for its AI assistant, version 1.0 beta, built for Apple Silicon with a 16-megabyte binary requiring macOS 15 or newer, introducing features like window streaming, s…
A growing body of research suggests that AI use can impair human cognition, including automation bias and degraded skills, which poses a threat to human control of the U.S. military as it pursues an '…
In Q2 2026 13F filings, Dan Loeb's Third Point exited Nvidia, Broadcom, KLA, Lam Research, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF, and Meta, while building a new 20 million share position in Warner Bros. Discov…
Meta's smart glasses, sold by Oakley and Ray-Ban, include a hidden facial recognition feature called NameTag that can identify unsuspecting individuals, raising privacy concerns. The feature was remov…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot with stricter safeguards around self-harm, violence, eating disorders, and sexual content, adding parental controls and safety alerts. T…
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are on track to collectively spend roughly $735 billion on AI data center infrastructure in 2026, according to Goldman Sachs estimates, with global AI infrastruct…
OpenAI confirmed on August 19 that registration and login services on ChatGPT.com went down, locking out both new signups and existing users, while its API services continued running normally with 99.…
A Chinese game company trained an AI agent on a departed employee's work records, and the digital worker now fields questions, schedules meetings, and produces slide decks in the company chat. The tre…
Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks to raise funding at a $40 billion valuation after achieving a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under two years, according to Bloombe…
Coders Technologies, a mobile and AI development team in Dubai, has published a comparison of native iOS/Android, React Native, and Flutter for building mobile apps in the UAE, including real cost dat…
Meta announced Muse Video, its first video generation model with native audio, in closed beta on July 7. Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the model generates synchronized audio and music alon…
Meta is beta-testing its upcoming Muse Video model with selected partners, and early outputs show state-of-the-art potential in fine detail, world understanding, and temporal consistency, producing 10…
Meta launched a new Meta AI app for the Mac in beta, aimed at businesses and content creators, integrating with Facebook and Instagram and offering screen sharing and dictation features. The app conne…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto promotes the open-source Llama strategy as democratizing AI, but critics note that licensing terms restrict commercial use past a certain scale, making it a fre…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that artificial intelligence could be 'bigger than the internet, bigger than anything anyone's seen,' as he called for regulation that does not stifle the industr…
Meta launched its Meta AI desktop app for macOS on August 19, featuring screen sharing and system-wide dictation, with the build already labeled version 1.0. The app allows users to attach a specific …
OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT for Teens on August 18, 2026, routing 13- to 17-year-olds into a version with tighter safety guardrails, but parents still cannot read their teen's chats. The rollout …