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).
Attackers compromised 20,000 Instagram accounts by exploiting Meta's AI systems through polite requests, highlighting a growing security vulnerability in AI agents that can be manipulated into grantin…
A discussion on the Privacy Guides forum explores whether AI will render privacy efforts obsolete, with users debating increased data collection and potential countermeasures like Mullvad's DAITA VPN …
Meta launched AI Mode in Facebook search, drawing on public posts from Facebook Groups and Instagram Reels to answer complex queries. In testing, the feature provided mixed results, including hallucin…
Sid Probstein, creator of SWIRL and CEO of SWIRL AI, argues that copying enterprise data into a vector database for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) introduces security and compliance risks. He ad…
AT&T has begun limiting some employees' access to GitHub Copilot, and Meta is reining in staff spending on Anthropic and other AI tools, marking a shift from 'tokenmaxxing' to 'tokenminimizing' as ent…
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) committed up to ₹70 billion ($741 million) to Indian data center operator CtrlS, acquiring an 8.2% stake and forming a joint venture to develop h…
Big Tech's capital expenditure on AI infrastructure is expected to reach $750bn this year, driven by Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, but physical constraints, rising costs, and lack of profitabil…
Apple's stock fell 2% after WWDC 2026 despite record Q1 FY2026 revenue of $143.8 billion, as investors grow impatient with the slow monetization of AI features and rising R&D spending. The company's $…
Pinterest launched an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' that uses conversational AI and the company's Taste Graph to provide personalized product recommendations. The standalone app …
Epoch AI analysis reveals Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are increasing AI infrastructure spending by 70% annually while operating cash flow grows only 23%, potentially causing spending…
Amnesty International released a research briefing documenting that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, violate international human rights law through mass invasions of p…
Singapore's non-oil domestic exports surged 38.4% year-on-year in May 2026, driven by a record 94.8% jump in electronics shipments fueled by global AI infrastructure demand. Integrated circuits rose 8…
AI-generated code now accounts for half to two-thirds of net new code in many organizations, but larger pull requests driven by AI tools correlate with more bugs, according to Span Field CTO Stephen P…
Most AI agents fail in production due to LLM inconsistency, monolithic design, lack of observability, and runaway costs. Engineers from Spotify, Meta, and Stripe have developed battle-tested patterns …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an internal company-wide AI hackathon scheduled for July 14-16, aiming to revive hacker culture. Employees, many of whom absorbed workloads after roughly 8,000 recen…
Schroders Group CIO Johanna Kyrklund argues that AI and tech stocks are not in a bubble, citing strong cash flows at major firms like Meta and Google that distinguish the current boom from the dot-com…
McKinsey's June 2026 analysis finds that 75% of advertisers expect AI to increase total media spend, with one-third forecasting at least a 10% ROAS increase. Over 50% say AI has reshaped discovery and…
Reuters and The Japan Times report that dozens of off-grid natural-gas power plants are being fast-tracked to supply single AI data centers, often with limited public notice. The Ohio Power Siting Boa…
Dozens of large, off-grid natural gas power plants are being rapidly approved across the United States to fuel the AI industry's data center boom, often with little public scrutiny or environmental re…
Apple is accelerating development of AI-powered wearables including camera-equipped AirPods, a pendant accessory, and smart glasses code-named N50, all designed to provide visual context to Siri, acco…