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).
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…
India's Adani Group and US contract manufacturer Jabil plan to form a strategic alliance to build a vertically integrated AI and data-center hardware platform in India, targeting multi-gigawatt capaci…
Attackers compromised over 20,000 Instagram accounts by politely asking Meta's AI to reset passwords, exploiting a lack of proper security checks. This incident highlights a growing vulnerability as A…
A federal judge ruled that Meta must face a copyright lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, which owns adult sites like Blacked.com, for allegedly scraping and torrenting thousands of its porn videos to tra…
Meta's new Applied AI team, created to support its Superintelligence Labs, is suffering from record-low morale amid layoffs, surveillance initiatives, and soul-crushing busywork, with employees descri…
Nick Creighton from Build Log demonstrated how to fine-tune Llama 3 for production-ready SQL query generation for under $50. Using a single RTX 4090 and a curated set of 200-500 natural-language-to-SQ…
Nick Creighton, an operator who ships, provides a detailed blueprint for deploying Meta's Llama 3 706B model locally, emphasizing privacy, latency, and cost benefits over cloud APIs. He outlines the e…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted that Micron will surpass Meta in market value, identified power supply shortages as the tech industry's biggest hurdle, and stated that AI's role is shifting …
Eric Vaughan, CEO of IgniteTech, laid off 80% of his workforce after employees refused to embrace AI despite a year of training, arguing that resistance—not skills gaps—is the main barrier to AI adopt…
A developer built a multi-agent AI system called 'The Price Is Right' that autonomously scans the internet for bargains, estimates product value using three pricing techniques, and sends notifications…
Meta's Llama open-source AI models can run on hardware ranging from a MacBook to a data-center GPU, with the key constraint being memory capacity. An M2 Pro MacBook with 16GB can run 1B, 3B, and 8B pa…
Several former Nvidia employees have left the company to launch their own AI startups, citing the financial cushion from Nvidia's stock gains and relative stability amid industry layoffs. One example …
Peel Hunt CEO Steven Fine said SpaceX's record $75bn IPO could reignite British retail investor interest in equity markets, citing high demand for shares allocated to UK investors and upcoming floats …
Meta licensed face-recognition software from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon supplier that sells surveillance tools to police and the military, for potential use in its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses…
PiEEG XR, an open-source neural face interface for Quest 3, captures biosignals from the face and forehead to map avatar expressions and mixed-reality effects. The device is aimed at developers and re…
Defense contractors including Anduril, Palantir, and Lockheed Martin are partnering with frontier AI companies to integrate advanced models into military systems that automate drone tasking and kill-c…
Meta rolled out its proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April after spending $14.3 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, but the company has repeatedly delayed the public API …
OpenRouter launched Fusion, a multi-model API that fans prompts across several AI models in parallel and synthesizes their outputs, achieving performance near Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at roughly hal…