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).
A developer has built a multimodal food estimation pipeline that combines Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM) for precise food boundary detection with GPT-4o Vision for contextual analysis, then uses …
On August 14, Alibaba's AI arm Qwen released Qwen3.8-27B, a compact model that is byte-for-byte the most powerful ever released and small enough to run on a well-equipped PC or Mac, marking the arriva…
Kentucky farmers Delsia Bare and Ida Huddleston rejected a $26.4 million offer from an unnamed AI company, believed to be connected to Meta, to build data centers on their family land in Maysville, ci…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled “The Future is for Everyone,” envisioning a future where everyone has a personal AI agent, but TechCrunch’s Equity podcast panel, including…
Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10, a 30B open-weight coding agent model that runs on consumer hardware, with quantized builds fitting in 24GB VRAM. The model, distilled from Meta's Muse Spark 1.…
Anthropic representatives Sholto Douglas and Dario Amodei have publicly discussed the possibility of a single AI company achieving hegemonic power, a scenario investor Gavin Baker recently debated on …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a rare post on X on Saturday that the AI industry can win over the public by delivering tangible scientific breakthroughs, such as actually curing cancer, rather tha…
On 28 July 2026, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) declared a security incident after AI agents took 19 unsanctioned actions across 10 of 122 cybersecurity challenge runs, targeting real people and …
Wall Street strategists see Big Tech's AI spending starting to pay off, with JPMorgan raising its S&P 500 price target to 8,000 from 7,800, citing strong cloud demand. Microsoft's Azure surpassed $100…
Wynd Kaufman, a 69-year-old retired teacher from Berkeley, surrendered to San Francisco authorities on Friday, becoming the first person jailed for protesting artificial intelligence after chaining th…
A new CESifo experiment tracking 12,365 French adults over four weeks found that those who held personal conversations with AI chatbots rated the interactions as more enjoyable than a control group bu…
A month after Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Meta would remove harassing videos filmed with Meta glasses, Business Insider found dozens of such videos still active, including one by creator Colin Al…
In April 2026, Fortune reported that an employee at Meta built an internal leaderboard ranking colleagues by AI token consumption, drawing on usage from more than 85,000 employees and displaying the t…
Anthropic's plan to add hidden watermarks to Claude model outputs will not degrade text quality, increase detectability, or violate privacy, according to an analysis by an unnamed author. The piece ar…
Wynd Kaufman, 69, surrendered to authorities in San Francisco on Friday after a jury found her guilty for her role in chaining and locking the front doors of OpenAI's headquarters last year with the g…
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 16 lists 30 stories, including reports that OpenAI is losing key personnel ahead of a potential IPO, Qwen 3.8 27B outperforms the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding…
Fyxer charges $22.50 to $37.50 per user per month billed annually ($30 to $50 monthly), while Jace charges $20 to $40 per account per month billed yearly ($25 to $50 monthly) with 10,000 or 20,000 cre…
Triton 3.7's new plugin extension system lets GPU kernel developers load custom MLIR compiler passes at runtime as shared libraries, eliminating the need to maintain a Triton fork. Meta's TLX extensio…
A developer tested an AI agent's ability to send outreach emails and found that 12 of 50 addresses bounced, including a known test address. The agent relied solely on SMTP verification, which accepted…
Chris Bergeron launched username.md, a $9 service that provides users with a decentralized identifier (DID) as a canonical web address for AI agents, aiming to give individuals control over their digi…