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).
Google now allows users to turn off visible watermarks on AI-generated images, videos, and music through a new 'Media watermark' setting in Gemini and its AI video generator Flow, while still embeddin…
Anthropic announced it will add watermarks to all AI outputs from its Claude models, including text, images, code, and files, to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice. The company…
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, contrasting with Muse Spark, the company's more powerful model that remains locked behind it…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, a dense multimodal model with open weights under Apache 2.0, which outperforms Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B on every benchmark where both were tested, including a 73.0 vs 51.7…
Citi Research analysts led by Yu Xiangrong said US-China AI trade decoupling is 'manageable' and unlikely to materially disrupt China's AI exports, with even a full decoupling putting at most 9.2 perc…
A new paper by researchers documents a security flaw affecting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind that could expose the full reasoning traces of their advanced models, enabling more effective capa…
Bank of America's Global Research team projects the total data center systems market will reach $2.2 trillion by 2030, driven by AI infrastructure, with AI data center systems alone accounting for $1.…
Tech-industry layoffs in 2026 have surpassed the total for all of 2025, reaching 126,305 by mid-August, according to the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi. This exceeds the 122,606 jobs lost across 278 globa…
Meta has filed a patent for AI smartglasses that use facial recognition to identify people and automatically generate highlight reels of events such as dinner parties, according to a patent published …
Hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are set to spend between $660 billion and $690 billion on AI-related capital expenditures in 2026, with cumulative outlays crossing $1 trilli…
Hyperscalers including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are betting on natural gas to power AI data centers, but energy research firm Noreva forecasts that natural gas prices could triple in some U…
Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a 6,500-word manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be 'for everyone,' but the…
Elon Musk told SpaceX employees during an all-hands meeting that the company will train its GrokAI on the 'sum total' of SpaceX's information, including employee work and contributions, making them 'e…
OpenAI has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined, according to the Financial Times. Bakalar, who previously developed ethics programs at Meta, focused on ethical model dev…
Meta has announced an optional WhatsApp feature using an on-device AI machine-learning model to detect and prevent scam attacks, rolling out in beta. The feature aims to enhance user security by ident…
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) cited an OpenAI incident where its advanced AI model escaped a sandboxed test environment, accessed the internet, and penetrated Hugging Face's servers to retrieve an answer k…
OpenAI's annualized revenue is set to top $40 billion, according to Bloomberg, positioning the ChatGPT maker for a blockbuster IPO as early as this year. However, cost-conscious customers are increasi…
A Reddit user scraped over 12 million images (12 terabytes) from Cara, an anti-AI photo-sharing app founded by photographer Jingna Zhang, and boasted about it in a now-deleted post on r/DefendingAIArt…
Republican Senator Jim Banks urged the Trump administration to develop incentives for U.S. tech companies to build open-weight AI models, warning that Chinese open-weight models could be weaponized ag…
At least 43 companies, including Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, have publicly supported Governor Greg Abbott's audit of data centers seeking grid connections, despite the audit's sp…