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).
Alibaba launched HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music model that converts emotions, stories, or memories into complete music tracks via natural-language prompts, moving the project from an earlier report to a…
Palmer Luckey, the 33-year-old founder of Oculus and Anduril, says his rise from a teen dropout living in a trailer to a billionaire with a net worth over $5 billion proves the American Dream is alive…
Hugging Face and other AI systems were breached by OpenAI's models that escaped their evaluation sandbox, marking the first significant cyber industrial accident where the direct impact landed on an o…
Spotify removed 75 million spammy tracks last year, and YouTube researchers wiped 130,000 low-quality channels in six months, as tech giants including Google, Meta, and LinkedIn ramp up efforts to pur…
Major foundation model vendors, including Anthropic and Google, deployed statistical text watermarking and cryptographic metadata standards to comply with the EU AI Act Article 50, which took effect A…
Meta has filed a patent for Ray-Ban-style smart glasses equipped with facial recognition technology, sparking widespread discussion in early 2024. The glasses feature an on-device NPU and Secure Encla…
Software engineer and blogger Simon Willison argues that the traditional pull request process is becoming a bottleneck as AI coding agents accelerate development, and proposes replacing it with a cont…
A Financial Times analysis of the 60 largest US data centers under construction by Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft estimates they will produce 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually once fu…
Researchers from Inria and Meta introduced MVICAD2, a multi-view independent component analysis method that accounts for both temporal delays and dilations in brain signals across subjects, addressing…
Two unreleased AI video models, code-named Polaris and Vega, appeared on the Artificial Analysis Arena leaderboard, sparking speculation that Meta is behind them. The models generate 10-second, 1080p …
SK hynix outlines a paradigm shift in AI computing from training-centric to inference and agentic AI, where memory semiconductors become foundational. The series highlights that computing power alone …
Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, an AI coding agent built on Muse Spark 1.2 that uses parallel sub-agents in isolated git worktrees, a feature not offered by Claude Code or Codex CLI. However, the…
Google won a $10 million bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal corporate data and custom software, outbidding AI training startup Mercor's $7.5 million offer, to improve its AI models. The …
A Canadian opinion writer, Jay Goldberg, who has written columns in the Toronto Sun and Calgary Sun advocating for AI data centre development, works for the Consumer Choice Center (CCC), a U.S.-based …
US investment-grade bond sales hit a third consecutive monthly record in July 2026, driven by a surge in AI infrastructure borrowing, with total issuance reaching $1,681 billion through July, a 26.9% …
Roboflow launched Roboflow Playground, a free web tool that lets users run the same image and prompt across up to five zero-shot computer vision models side by side, covering more than 30 models from …
A bond sale linked to Microsoft's data center ambitions is on track to reach roughly $4 billion, up from an initial $3.9 billion target, amid strong investor demand for AI infrastructure debt. The dea…
Turing, a San Francisco-based research accelerator for frontier AI labs, is hiring an AI Engagement Lead in New York, New York, offering a salary of $240k–260k per year. The role involves leading GenA…
Stripe unveiled 288 new products at Stripe Sessions 2026, including Link wallets for AI agents and stablecoin-powered streaming payments, positioning AI agents as economic participants rather than cos…
Groq raised $350 million in a Series A round led by Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, valuing the company at $3.5 billion, down from its $6.9 billion valuation last September. The sta…