Building Perri: A Comic Strip Generator
A developer built Perri Comic Generator, a lightweight single-panel comic creator that combines an LLM (Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct) with a diffusion model (SDXL-Turbo) to generate comics from story seed…
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).
A developer built Perri Comic Generator, a lightweight single-panel comic creator that combines an LLM (Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct) with a diffusion model (SDXL-Turbo) to generate comics from story seed…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth admitted the company's rollout of a new AI division was 'atrocious,' citing poor communication and career growth concerns among 6,500 engineers. The internal unrest follows wi…
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook on June 15, a search feature that generates AI responses from public posts across Meta's platforms, including Instagram and Threads. The feature, powered by Meta's Mu…
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip-design company Tenstorrent for $8 billion to $10 billion, according to The Information. The deal would signal Qualcomm's push into the AI data center market as …
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, which generates search results based on public posts across its platforms using the Muse Spark AI model. The feature appears alongside existing search modes and allo…
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings. The feature, rolling out to US users, gen…
Nvidia plans to raise up to $25 billion in its first bond sale since 2021, drawing $85 billion in early orders as tech giants race to fund AI infrastructure. The offering spans seven tranches with mat…
Meta's Applied AI unit, formed in March to support AI research, has become a source of intense employee dissatisfaction, with workers describing the work as 'soul-crushing' and 'mechanical.' During a …
A comparison shows Meta will spend $125 billion on chips in 2024, exceeding Germany's $114 billion defense budget, while offering over $100 million salaries to attract top AI researchers, yet still st…
Meta announced new AI features on Facebook, including 'AI Mode' that synthesizes answers from public posts across its platforms, and AI-powered photo presets for editing. The updates aim to boost enga…
CEOs are reversing their push for maximal AI usage as costs spiral out of control, with some employees spending over $150,000 monthly on AI tokens and companies like Amazon and Meta ditching AI leader…
Meta announced a suite of AI tools for Facebook, including a chatbot called AI Mode that answers questions using data from Groups and Reels, photo-editing features with collage cutouts and video monta…
The Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2026 in Long Beach, California, will showcase the latest smart glasses integrating AI, with major players like Meta, Google, Snap, and Apple advancing their offerings. T…
The U.S. Army commissioned three technology executives—Dane Knecht of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino of Facebook AI Research—into its Executive Innovation Corps (…
Tech companies have cut 150,000 workers in 2026 at a pace 44% faster than last year, with AI cited as the primary driver for three consecutive months. Junior developers are hit hardest, with employmen…
Meta is testing facial recognition software from Rank One Computing, a firm that sells surveillance tech to U.S. government and police, for its smart glasses. License documents show Meta is authorized…
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal launched a formal investigation on December 16, 2025, into whether AI data centers are driving up residential electricity costs. The…
As digital lives expand, the fate of online accounts, data, and assets after death remains legally fragmented. France leads with clear post-mortem data protection laws, while Germany lacks harmonized …
Iran struck Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE during military operations against Israel in March, disrupting undersea cable projects like Meta's 2Africa consortium in the Persian Gulf. The a…
Google has invested over $2 billion to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama, a facility that first opened in 2018. The expansion reflects the growing demand for AI and cloud comput…