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).
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the company's second-quarter earnings call that Meta has received offers from companies to rent its AI cloud software at a "meaningful premium" over the cost to build …
Meta's AI-powered smart glasses have been banned from courthouses across England and Wales by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), prompting employment lawyers to warn businesses about …
IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement, and several of the milestones they predicted f…
AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba nearly took down the LGBT History Project, a volunteer-run archive founded by Jonathan Harborne, after one Meta crawler made roughly 26,000 requests in a day and pull…
Elon Musk's xAI and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta released new AI models—Grok 4 and Muse Spark 1.1 and Muse Glimmer—that are performing well on key benchmarks, intensifying competition with OpenAI, Anthropic…
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta released AI models this week that close the gap on OpenAI and Anthropic, with Grok 4.6 scoring nearly even with GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the Artificial Analysis…
Mozilla's chief technology officer, Raffi Krikorian, argues that AI should be built like the internet, with open-source models as a viable alternative to proprietary systems. A Mozilla report publishe…
OpenAI paused work on its Astra model after evaluations suggested it may have reached 'Critical' cyber capability, including potential autonomous zero-day exploitation. Meanwhile, agentic models from …
Nebius raised its year-end 2026 contracted-power target to 5GW, up from more than 4GW, and plans to deploy more than 1GW of new AI capacity per year starting in 2027, according to its second-quarter s…
Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to the National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI), a charity supporting people with sight loss in Ireland, to help blind and visually impaired …
Meta launched a standalone Facebook Creator Studio app on iPhone for creators in the United States and Canada, featuring AI tools that provide personalized performance recommendations, trend-based con…
Tech companies including Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are expected to spend roughly $700 billion this year on AI data centers, but the U.S. faces a shortage of skilled trades workers, needing…
WhatsApp began a limited beta of Scam Alert on August 12, 2026, an optional feature that uses an on-device machine learning model to flag suspected scam messages from non-contacts without sending mess…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto on spreading AI benefits, joining a trend of lengthy essays by tech leaders like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's 13,000-word piece, but communica…
Gusto, a human resources platform, has introduced a five-tier AI archetype system for quarterly employee performance reviews, ranging from 'observers' to 'amplifiers,' to standardize AI fluency discus…
DeepSeek released V4 Pro 0813 on August 13, 2026, as its general-availability flagship with 1.6 trillion parameters, a 1,048,576-token context window, and a Terminal Bench 2.1 score of 87.9, 0.1 point…
More than 120,000 tech jobs have been cut globally in 2026, according to Layoffs.fyi, and a survey by Lenny's Newsletter of 8,200 workers found burnout rose from 44.4% to 55.7% and career optimism fel…
Anthropic will embed an invisible watermark in all text generated by its Claude AI models, rolling out globally starting August 2 for new models in the European Union and later for older ones, coverin…
His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has banned Meta smart glasses from courts and tribunals in England and Wales, with devices confiscated at the door and returned when the owner leaves…
Dutch cloud company Nebius will open the Baltics' first AI factory in Tallinn, Estonia, with a 22-megawatt capacity, making it the largest in the region. The first phase is expected to begin operating…