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).
The article describes how the author's Instagram automation tool, GramShift, triggered a soft cooldown from Meta due to three "aggressive" settings being used simultaneously over two weeks. In respons…
According to the article, Meta reassigned approximately 7,000 employees to a new AI initiative, including groups like Applied AI (AAI) and AI agent teams, as part of a broader reorganization that also…
Meta launched a new standalone app called Forum this week, positioning it as a discussion-based platform where users can post with nicknames and follow conversations across communities. The app includ…
The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that WhatsApp does not provide the end-to-end encryption it has publicly claimed since 2016, and that Meta can and does read users…
Meta has launched a new iPhone app called Forum, which functions as a dedicated space for Facebook Groups, integrating an AI chatbot to help users search through group posts. The app combines elements…
President Donald Trump canceled a planned executive order signing event hours before it was scheduled after learning that several top AI company CEOs, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, would no…
The White House has shelved a planned executive order to establish government review of frontier AI models before release, following direct lobbying of President Trump by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is restructuring the company's leadership by dismantling the senior leadership team and preparing for the departure of veteran executive Yusuf Mehdi, as part of a broader e…
According to a Business Insider analysis of 15 layoff memos from companies like Block, Meta, and Disney in 2026, the word "AI" was the most frequently used term, appearing 46 times. Executives cited A…
In a presentation titled "AI Native Engineering," Ian Thomas of Meta's Reality Labs shared a case study on reducing engineering toil by shifting developers from "builders" to "explorers and innovators…
On May 20, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a formal investigation into Meta's AI glasses over concerns about the device's "always enabled" recording mode, which continuously processes…
A podcast episode of WIRED's "Uncanny Valley," which discusses Meta's recent layoffs and declining employee morale, Elon Musk's loss in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and Google's ambitious AI-driven cha…
Meta settled a lawsuit with Kentucky's Breathitt County School District, which sought compensation for mental health harms linked to social media, following similar settlements by YouTube, Snap, and T…
Antigravity 2.0's redesigned IDE receives overwhelmingly negative feedback due to bugs, poor UX, and high Gemini token consumption, with hints that even its own developers prefer other tools. Google's…
A self-hosted AI agent built by an engineering manager to automate invoice data extraction from photos sent via WhatsApp. The system uses a workflow orchestration tool (n8n) to receive images, pass th…
According to a May 2026 report from Tom's Hardware, the custom AI ASIC market is being driven by major deals from Broadcom and the continued development of in-house chips like Google's TPUs and Meta's…
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa have each drafted AI strategies since January 2025 that identify dependence on U.S. tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta as a security threat…
Meta has laid off approximately 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, as part of a cost-cutting effort to offset its massive investments in artificial intelligence. The company plans to spen…
Former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg told Brandeis University graduates that the traditional 10-year career plan is obsolete in an era of rapid technological change, warning that rigid planning c…
Intuit is laying off approximately 3,000 employees, or 17% of its workforce, to simplify its corporate structure and refocus resources on integrating artificial intelligence into its products. The com…