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).
Job cuts attributed to artificial intelligence surged to 40% of all layoffs in May 2026, up from 25% in March, as companies like Meta cite AI-driven efficiency gains for workforce reductions. Analysts…
TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its Dublin hub, affecting roughly a tenth of its local workforce, as part of a restructuring of its AI data service and operations team. The proposed re…
AI providers face mounting operational pressures as infrastructure costs soar, with OpenAI expecting $600 billion in compute spending by 2030 and major tech firms potentially spending $630 billion on …
Meta has imposed rate limits on the Conversation Focus feature of its smart glasses, allowing only three hours of free use per month. Users who need more time must subscribe to the $20-a-month Meta On…
Goldman Sachs strategists have turned bullish on European equities, citing surging hyperscaler capital expenditure that they now estimate at $754 billion for 2026. The bank argues that European indust…
New research reveals that EU copyright law, which protects creative essence beyond verbatim copying, outpaces current AI safeguards. The PSALM framework evaluates LLM outputs for stylistic and narrati…
Ireland's upcoming EU presidency is compromised by its deep ties to big tech, with the Irish state and economy captured by companies like Google, Meta, and Apple. The country's data protection commiss…
Researchers introduced Symbolic Mechanistic Data Attribution (SMDA), a framework that links training data to high-level model behaviors, tested on Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct. SMDA revealed systematic safet…
Microsoft plans to cut less than 2.5% of its workforce next week, targeting sales, consulting, and Xbox roles as the company reallocates spending toward AI infrastructure. The reductions follow a volu…
Meta announced rate limits on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature, restricting free use to three hours per month and requiring a $19.99 monthly subscription for extended access, despite the …
The US government is implementing export controls on frontier AI models, treating model weights as dual-use technologies subject to government review before release. The AI Diffusion Rule, finalized i…
Microsoft launched its first voluntary retirement buyout program on April 23, targeting approximately 8,750 US employees as it reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure. The tech giant's pivot re…
The House passed the KIDS Act 267-117 on Monday, a bill requiring age verification for internet access and parental controls on social media, which critics say builds infrastructure for a federal surv…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against fears that artificial intelligence will lead to mass job displacement, arguing that empowering individuals and increasing productivity could create more jo…
U.S. stock markets are on track for their best quarter in years, with the S&P 500 up 14% and Nasdaq up 20% in Q2 2026, driven by AI sector enthusiasm. However, average investors often underperform due…
SemiAnalysis surveyed over 50 enterprises and found that widespread token overspending, as reported at Meta and Uber, is overstated and not representative of most organizations. Companies are now adop…
Meta introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, an AI system that decodes brain activity into text using non-invasive MEG scans, achieving 78% word accuracy in experiments with healthy volunteers. The research aims …
Henrico County, Virginia, which hosts 37 data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, is asking teachers and employees to turn off lights and unplug devices to save on power costs after a 25…
Anthropic launched its cheaper Claude Sonnet 5 model, designed for agentic AI and autonomous tasks, as tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Uber seek to cut AI token costs. The model offers improved …
Meta paid hundreds of contractors through a firm called Covalen to pose as teenagers and probe rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Character.AI, using over 45,000 promp…