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).
OpenAI added voice interaction and image-upload capabilities to ChatGPT, and Meta previewed conversational AI characters for social feeds, according to a report by Casey Newton in Platformer. The upda…
Apple spent $14 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, just 2% of the $670 billion committed by Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft for AI infrastructure, signaling a fundamental disagreement with S…
Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on Meta's acquisition of Limitl…
Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant for testing within the next year, building on technology from its acquisition of startup Limitless, according to an internal memo. The device aims to expand Me…
Daniel Jalkut stated on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads that people are either too opposed to or too supportive of AI. Jalkut expressed full agreement with his own assessment of the polarized debate su…
Meta has historically failed to generate significant revenue from products beyond its core advertising business, including hardware and virtual reality. The company now faces a critical test with its …
A pick-and-shovel AI stock has joined Meta, Tesla, and Broadcom as the newest member of the $1 trillion market capitalization club. The company's valuation milestone reflects surging investor demand f…
Craig Campbell turned down venture capital funding for an AI startup in 2022 to launch Past Maps, a website that overlays historical maps onto modern-day locations. The site has grown from 20,000 to o…
Many CEOs are publicly urging employees to adopt AI tools through trainings and performance metrics, even as some companies cite the technology when cutting jobs. Meta laid off about 8,000 employees t…
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress declared that artificial intelligence is "no longer a nice-to-have" but a "necessity for enhancing productivity across all industries," as the company reported record quarterl…
Companies pushing employees to embrace artificial intelligence are simultaneously citing the technology as a reason for layoffs, creating a contradiction that workplace experts say is fueling worker r…
Perplexity, an AI startup, is gifting Mac Minis to select content creators and tech enthusiasts to showcase its new Personal Computer software. The device, which runs Perplexity's AI-powered browser a…
Meta plans to expand its smart glasses lineup and internally test a new AI pendant by spring 2027, according to an internal memo from Vice President of Wearables Alex Himel. The devices will run on Me…
Meta engineering migrated a petabyte-scale MySQL data ingestion platform to a centralized, self-managed warehouse service, using reverse shadowing and continuous checksum monitoring to achieve zero do…
Meta acquired Limitless, the maker of a $99 AI-powered wearable pendant, on December 5, 2025, as part of its push into AI wearables. The social media giant is also developing a smartwatch codenamed Ma…
In 2026, AI agents can produce entry-level work at a fraction of the cost of human employees, yet most people lack the skills to work with or manage these systems. Companies like ClickUp, Wix, Webflow…
Hundreds of contract workers employed by Covalen, a Dublin-based firm that provides content moderation and AI data labeling for Meta, staged a protest Friday outside Meta’s European headquarters in Du…
Illinois lawmakers passed Senate Bill 315, making the state the first in the U.S. to require independent third-party safety audits of frontier artificial intelligence companies. The law, which passed …
A developer is building an open-source tool to observe and distill Claude Code agents' behavior into a cheaper AI model, effectively creating a backup that eliminates the need for Claude's subscriptio…
Amazon removed an internal leaderboard tracking employee usage of its Kiro AI tool after workers created AI agents to perform unnecessary tasks and inflate their scores, a practice known as tokenmaxxi…