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).
For French B2B SaaS companies, Mistral AI offers a stronger alignment with sovereignty and GDPR compliance than OpenAI, as Mistral provides native European hosting and contractual guarantees against d…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified a…
Lovable CEO Anton Osika directly appealed to laid-off Big Tech workers in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, declaring the era of US tech giants as the "safe, prestigious choice" is over. The Swedish AI startup…
Nearly half of the 37,638 tech job cuts announced this year are directly linked to AI, as companies like Amazon, Meta, and Cisco slash payrolls to either replace workers with AI or fund AI infrastruct…
Meta launched Ads AI Connectors in open beta, allowing advertisers to link their Meta ad accounts to external AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude via a Model Context Protocol server and ads CLI, accordi…
Human Archive has raised $8.2 million from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator, and angel investors from OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, and Meta to deploy head-mounted and wrist-mounted cameras o…
Human Archive, a company backed by $8.2 million from investors including Wing Venture Capital and Y Combinator, is deploying head-mounted cameras on workers in India to collect first-person video data…
Developers are increasingly adopting "tokenmaxxing"—feeding entire codebases into AI models and running multi-turn agentic loops—to exponentially multiply engineering output, but concerns over rising …
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion valuation from October 2025. The Redwood City-based AI inference startup, which proc…
Ollama and LM Studio now allow users to run open-weight AI models like Qwen 3, Gemma 3, and DeepSeek-R1 locally on consumer hardware without API keys or monthly fees. The tools support quantized model…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed hyperscale AI data centers, overlaying them with community-submitted reports on loc…
Meta cut 1,395 jobs in Washington state, roughly 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide restructuring that eliminated about 8,000 positions to shift resources toward artificial intellige…
A developer compared the costs of Claude Sonnet 4.6 API at $3.00 per million input tokens against a self-hosted Llama 3.2 90B instance on a $20/month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet. The analysis found that …
Financial Times testing, conducted in partnership with AI safety group Alice, found that safety controls in Meta's Llama 3.3 and Google's Gemma 3 open-weight AI models can be removed in under 10 minut…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking community concerns about AI data centers across the United States. The map, which has received over 2,700 reports, overlays major data cen…
A developer built AimVantage, an AI tool that generates a full interview preparation pack from a user's CV and a job link in 90 seconds. The tool, built solo in 53 days, replaces multiple paid service…
Pope Leo XIV’s warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response from top Silicon Valley executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, who did not …
Software engineering job postings are trending up in the US and UK but declining in Germany and France, with top tech companies hiring 20% more than a year ago. AI engineering demand is exploding, wit…
Human Archive, a Silicon Valley startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford students, has raised $8.2 million to equip Indian gig economy workers with camera-equipped caps that collect first-person vi…
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced in May 2023 that AI would eliminate 7,800 back-office jobs over five years, but two years later only a "couple hundred" HR workers were affected and total headcount ha…