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).
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…
Instagram, owned by Meta, has blocked search terms like 'rizz' and 'cold approach' but its recommendation algorithm continues to serve videos of men using Meta glasses to film women without consent, a…
Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, an AI model gateway used by 8 million developers, for more than $7 billion, with the deal closing on August 16. The acquisition gives Stripe control over both the billi…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on 30 July 2025 that the company has 'begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,' calling the progress slow but undeniable and saying superintelligence…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Big Tech companies have $3 trillion in AI spending commitments kept off their balance sheets, according to a breakdown by Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman. The report h…
Meta released Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick as open-weight, natively multimodal models using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, with Scout capable of fitting on a single H100 when quantized to In…
AI companies are buying used books in bulk, potentially for destructive scanning to train large language models, according to reports from used bookstores and a recent court ruling. Barter Books in No…
Palona AI, founded by Maria Zhang, launched a multimodal AI operating layer for restaurants on August 17, extending its phone agents to integrate customer conversations, business systems, and security…
Anthropic has begun watermarking all text outputs from new Claude models globally with an invisible statistical watermark, meeting the EU AI Act's August 2 deadline, with no opt-out and no regional ge…
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management sold approximately 95% of its Alphabet position during Q1 2026, while adding 1,844,157 Amazon shares and opening a new $2.4 billion Microsoft stake, ma…
A Wall Street Journal analysis found that nine major technology companies hold approximately $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet commitments tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure, roughly five t…
Stocks diverged at the open on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 slipping while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite wavered, as a large revenue haul by AI startup Anthropic helped …
Anthropic is adopting Google DeepMind's SynthID-style text watermarking for Claude, with existing models transitioning over the coming months and a text-detection API planned, while Google has open-so…
Alibaba Cloud launched Fun-Music, a beta AI music-generation model that creates complete songs with lyrics, melody, arrangement, and vocals from text prompts, available in limited preview to users in …
Global Unichip Corp (GUC), the TSMC-affiliated ASIC design house, posted July 2026 net sales of NT$5.769 billion, a 158.4% year-over-year increase and a new monthly record, driving shares up 9% to NT$…
Alibaba launched a laptop-ready AI model and released the weights of its most powerful Qwen model, escalating its rivalry with Meta in open-weight AI. The new model is designed to run on laptops, and …
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, marking the largest AI gateway deal on record and merging payments infrastructure with a routing layer that directs developer workload…
Institutional investors are shifting focus to identifying future AI winners as capital expenditure concerns ease, according to a Reuters report. Major players including Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, an…
Ottawa-based product designer Marcos Rezende launched NearLens, a free iOS app that uses Bluetooth signals to detect nearby camera-equipped smart glasses such as Ray-Ban Meta, addressing privacy conce…