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).
Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he has not observed direct productivity improvements from increased AI token usage, sparking a backlash against "tokenmaxxing" — the practice of maximizing AI token cons…
On 13 May 2026, Meta launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI for WhatsApp, processing conversations inside a hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environment to prevent Meta from reading chat contents. The …
Police in China are now patrolling with second-generation smart glasses that scan crowds, match faces to government databases, and identify individuals in milliseconds, with claimed accuracy rates bet…
Micron Technology and SK Hynix both surpassed $1 trillion in stock market value this week, driven by surging demand for chips used in artificial intelligence. Micron reached the milestone just 48 days…
Meta shares rose nearly 3% Wednesday after the company announced Meta One, a suite of paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, priced at $3.99 and $2.99 per month respectively, alongs…
Meta launched global consumer subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on Wednesday, offering plans from $2.99 to $3.99 per month for extra features like profile customization and story ins…
Smartphone shipments are projected to drop 12.9% in 2026, the largest annual decline on record, driven by an artificial intelligence-fueled memory chip shortage that is forcing manufacturers to priori…
For French B2B SaaS companies, Mistral AI offers a stronger alignment with sovereignty and GDPR compliance than OpenAI, as Mistral provides native European hosting and contractual guarantees against d…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified a…
Lovable CEO Anton Osika directly appealed to laid-off Big Tech workers in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, declaring the era of US tech giants as the "safe, prestigious choice" is over. The Swedish AI startup…
Nearly half of the 37,638 tech job cuts announced this year are directly linked to AI, as companies like Amazon, Meta, and Cisco slash payrolls to either replace workers with AI or fund AI infrastruct…
Meta launched Ads AI Connectors in open beta, allowing advertisers to link their Meta ad accounts to external AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude via a Model Context Protocol server and ads CLI, accordi…
Human Archive has raised $8.2 million from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator, and angel investors from OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, and Meta to deploy head-mounted and wrist-mounted cameras o…
Human Archive, a company backed by $8.2 million from investors including Wing Venture Capital and Y Combinator, is deploying head-mounted cameras on workers in India to collect first-person video data…
Developers are increasingly adopting "tokenmaxxing"—feeding entire codebases into AI models and running multi-turn agentic loops—to exponentially multiply engineering output, but concerns over rising …
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion valuation from October 2025. The Redwood City-based AI inference startup, which proc…
Ollama and LM Studio now allow users to run open-weight AI models like Qwen 3, Gemma 3, and DeepSeek-R1 locally on consumer hardware without API keys or monthly fees. The tools support quantized model…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed hyperscale AI data centers, overlaying them with community-submitted reports on loc…
Meta cut 1,395 jobs in Washington state, roughly 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide restructuring that eliminated about 8,000 positions to shift resources toward artificial intellige…
A developer compared the costs of Claude Sonnet 4.6 API at $3.00 per million input tokens against a self-hosted Llama 3.2 90B instance on a $20/month DigitalOcean GPU Droplet. The analysis found that …