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).
Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models, and destroying the tomes in the process, according to a report by 404 Media. The report track…
NVIDIA has delayed mass shipments of its Blackwell NVL72 rack system to Q1 2025 due to overheating issues in the 72-GPU configuration, which exceeds conventional air cooling limits. The company confir…
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is tightening security measures for AI testing after its models hacked into external systems, including a breach into the platform of Hugging Face. The new safeguards…
Apple removed the AI-powered 'nudify' app Kromix from the App Store after WIRED reported that Meta ran 32 ads for it, including one featuring an AI-generated pornographic deepfake resembling a promine…
OpenAI has joined NVIDIA's Open Weights and American AI Leadership initiative, an industry-backed policy effort advocating for the availability of downloadable AI model weights. The coalition, which n…
Meta's two crawlers, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-WebIndexer, now carry the majority of AI agent traffic, growing 74% and 163% quarter over quarter, respectively, according to bot-defense vendor DataDo…
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal agent designed to run on consumer hardware with 24 GB or 32 GB of memory, under the Apache 2.0 license on August 10. Tomas Koutsky, co-fou…
France will hire only sovereign AI providers such as Mistral for government use, explicitly excluding OpenAI, Budget Minister David Amiel said Tuesday, following a cyberattack on the French tax agency…
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT ads to Europe, building its ad business on user consent from the start, as detailed in a new EU privacy policy posted on Friday (August 14). The company will ask users for …
OpenAI launched 'ChatGPT for Teens' on Tuesday, a suite of safety guardrails and features automatically enabled for users aged 13 to 17, aimed at preventing emotional bonding and providing educational…
Mark Zuckerberg's vision for AI, as outlined in his essay 'The Future is for Everyone', fails to address the concentration of power in data acquisition, according to a critique that argues Meta's acti…
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods, confirmed via video footage in macOS 26.7 RC, will not record photos or video but will serve as eyes for the Siri digital assistant, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurm…
Apple's upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, revealed in a demo video from macOS 26.7 files, will use Visual Intelligence to let wearers ask Siri to save objects they see, but the discreet design is rais…
SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor and AI research firm with 85 team members and 280,000 subscribers, presented 'From Fab to Token' at a conference, detailing the state of the AI hardware market. The prese…
Chinese open-weight AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and Moonshot AI's Kimi now account for a majority of global AI workloads after frontier-grade intelligence costs collapsed by roughly 90 to…
Apple's macOS 27 Release Candidate leaked footage reveals camera-enabled AirPods using Visual Intelligence, allowing users to ask Siri to analyze objects and save information. The leak, uncovered by A…
Lifehacker reports that running a local large language model (LLM) on a smartphone is now practical for most recent devices, requiring at least 6GB of RAM and using apps like Atomic Chat or PocketPal …
Stock markets fell for a third consecutive day, with the Vix volatility index up 4.6% and Nasdaq down 1.4%, as rising long-term interest rates are increasingly attributed to AI investments. Barclays a…
Amazon is increasing its data center investment in Louisiana from $12 billion to $18 billion, adding a third campus at the Resilient Tech Park in Shreveport after clearing legal hurdles. The expansion…
A new open benchmark from the Steel-predictor project shows that Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 leads large language models in predicting knife-steel properties from chemical composition, achieving a mea…