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).
Amnesty International released a briefing today accusing companies of unlawfully scraping vast amounts of online data to build generative AI products, calling the systems "unlawful by design" due to m…
Meta has granted developers full access to the hardware in its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, leading to experimental apps that let users unlock their cars, control smart home devices, and play b…
Israeli technology companies and R&D centers are facing a wave of layoffs and closures in 2026, driven by currency strength, AI-related restructuring, and tighter fundraising conditions. VCCafe, citin…
Meta has unexpectedly increased funding to its Oversight Board, providing a new lifeline after months of uncertainty about the body's future. The company's decision to boost financial support for the …
Meta is pursuing new revenue streams beyond advertising, including paid subscriptions for Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, as well as AI chatbot fees, to justify its ballooning capital expenditure, …
Emarketer projects Meta will surpass Google in global digital ad revenue for the first time in 2026, with Meta reaching $243.5 billion to Google's $239.5 billion. Meta's Advantage+ AI automation and n…
NextEra Energy announced a $66.8 billion all-stock acquisition of Dominion Energy on May 18, 2026, creating a combined utility with 110 gigawatts of generation capacity and 10 million customers. The m…
Meta launched paid subscriptions for its Meta AI chatbot at $7.99 and $19.99 per month on Tuesday, while OpenAI and xAI are simultaneously moving into the advertising business, creating a strategic co…
Five of the largest hyperscalers funding the AI build-out—Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Oracle, and OpenAI—plus Nvidia are all led by female CFOs steering the trillion-dollar infrastructure expansion. Mi…
Meta is launching a subscription service called Meta One, offering ad-free access to Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp starting at $7.99 per month, bundled with expanded AI features. The move comes as…
Software developers on H-1B visas face a tightening US job market as technology companies redirect spending toward artificial intelligence and rely more on coding assistants, reducing demand for tradi…
Software developers returning from maternity leave are finding their jobs transformed by AI coding tools that became standard during their absence, leaving new mothers struggling to catch up with coll…
Researchers Thomas Corbin, Sue Sharpe, and Phillip Dawson warn that wearable AI will trigger a second wave of the assessment crisis, as devices like smart glasses provide real-time cognitive assistanc…
Stratechery published an interview with Eric Seufert covering generative AI model building, the significance of Meta's foundational models, and how understanding advertising economics supports optimis…
Eric Seufert discussed building models for generative AI and the significance of Meta's foundational models in a recent interview. He argued that understanding advertising leads to optimism about huma…
Meta is launching paid add-ons for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, with prices ranging from $2.99 to $19.99 per month, as part of a strategy to reduce reliance on ad revenue and justify its massive…
A Paris-based angel investor returned from a week in San Francisco, where meetings with senior software engineers, CTOs, and founders revealed a talent market now dominated by frontier AI labs like An…
OpenAI has begun rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, with software companies making up 34% of the ad placements analyzed by adtech firms, according to data reviewed by Business Insider. The ads, wh…
A real estate lead generation company built an AI voice agent that calls new leads within five minutes of form submission, addressing a 400% drop in contact rates after that window. The system, trigge…
Major technology firms including Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have publicly linked layoffs to AI adoption, eliminating tens of thousands of roles, with Meta cutting about 8,000 positions in an AI-focu…