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).
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…
Meta reported Q2 2026 revenue of $60.8 billion, up 28% year-over-year, with US average revenue per user rising 31% to $125, as Instagram crossed 2 billion daily active users for the first time. The co…
Meta and BlackRock's $14 billion AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, is so large that conventional insurers can only partially cover it, according to risk advisory firm Marsh and industry observe…
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have issued roughly $194 billion in bonds by early July 2026, surpassing their $108 billion total for all of 2025, squeezing the same capital pool that fu…
AI will persist and fundamentally reshape work and society despite widespread criticism, according to a Register column. Forrester predicts AI will eliminate 10.4 million U.S. jobs by 2030, and a Pew …
Meta and Oracle face heightened scrutiny from credit investors as their AI-driven capital expenditures surge, with Oracle's fiscal 2026 capex reaching $55.66 billion, exceeding its $50 billion target,…
Axios reports that AI companies are increasingly using consumer data beyond the chat window, with OpenAI introducing an optional Computer History feature for ChatGPT and Google using uploaded photos a…
The U.S. State Department is preparing a letter telling the 35 signatories of its AI Opportunity Statement, including Japan, Australia, and South Korea, that they cannot join both Washington's Pax Sil…
AI-generated wildlife images are endangering animals and people, experts warn, as fact-checkers debunk scores of synthetic visuals circulating on social media. A September study in Conservation Biolog…
Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, a platform that routes developer requests to more than 400 AI models, signaling a strategic bet on the infrastructure layer that controls model selection rather than on…
A 69-year-old retired teacher, Wynd Kaufmyn, began serving a seven-day jail term on Friday, August 14, after being convicted for her role in a February 22, 2025, blockade of OpenAI's San Francisco hea…
LeadDev's AI Impact Report 2026 found that 57% of respondents say tokenmaxxing is ineffective at gauging real value, and only 19% rate it as effective, as Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber have walked…
Asset managers are shifting focus to long-term returns from Big Tech AI spending, betting that hyperscalers will grow profits faster than they spend, with the biggest tech companies on track to add ro…
Chinese hedge funds Wealspring Asset and Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center are rotating out of Nvidia and US hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, calling the AI trade a 'supe…
Big Tech's artificial-intelligence capital expenditures are roughly $3 trillion higher than reported when including indirect costs such as cloud-computing infrastructure, energy, and acquisitions, acc…
Open-source marketing mix modeling (OS-MMM) packages such as Google's Meridian, Meta's Robyn, and PyMC Marketing are gaining traction as privacy changes like GDPR, COPPA, and Apple's IDFA deprecation …
A senior advertising technology executive argues that agentic advertising, which uses large language models to automate ad buying, must be governed by strict guardrails and human oversight to prevent …
Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Glimmer, an open-source version of its most advanced AI model Muse Spark, designed to run locally on consumer hardware with a single GPU, marking a return to its open…
Australians using smart glasses to film people without consent could face criminal penalties and civil lawsuits, lawyers warn. Shine Lawyers chief legal officer Lisa Flynn said consequences may includ…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot now watermarks text it generates or processes, a move required by the European Union's AI Act, but the feature has sparked user backlash, with dozens canceling subscriptions…