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).
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 …
Financial Times testing, conducted in partnership with AI safety group Alice, found that safety controls in Meta's Llama 3.3 and Google's Gemma 3 open-weight AI models can be removed in under 10 minut…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking community concerns about AI data centers across the United States. The map, which has received over 2,700 reports, overlays major data cen…
A developer built AimVantage, an AI tool that generates a full interview preparation pack from a user's CV and a job link in 90 seconds. The tool, built solo in 53 days, replaces multiple paid service…
Pope Leo XIV’s warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response from top Silicon Valley executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, who did not …
Software engineering job postings are trending up in the US and UK but declining in Germany and France, with top tech companies hiring 20% more than a year ago. AI engineering demand is exploding, wit…
Human Archive, a Silicon Valley startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford students, has raised $8.2 million to equip Indian gig economy workers with camera-equipped caps that collect first-person vi…
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced in May 2023 that AI would eliminate 7,800 back-office jobs over five years, but two years later only a "couple hundred" HR workers were affected and total headcount ha…
Clinicians using AI-drafted patient messages often spend extra time reviewing and editing them, according to reporting from Vox. A National Bureau of Economic Research paper found access to a conversa…
Basecamp released its fifth major version, an update to the project management service used by about one million users daily. The new version introduces a text editor with tables and markdown, full ke…
Microsoft and Uber are facing rising costs from AI coding tools as employee adoption outpaces budget projections, with Uber burning through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Nvidia's vi…
Recent economic data shows no evidence that artificial intelligence has caused large-scale disruption to the U.S. labor market, despite widespread predictions of a white-collar jobs apocalypse. Analys…
Researchers have developed BODHI, a domain knowledge prompting method that improves automated generation of formal operating system kernel specifications using large language models. The technique, wh…
Meta released CacheLib 2026.05.25 on Monday, its first new version in two years, to help services cope with surging DRAM prices driven by the AI boom. The open-source caching engine, originally launch…
A study evaluating 15 large language models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on over 6,000 political claims found that standard models performed poorly at fact-checking, with reasoning capabili…
Starbucks has abandoned its AI initiative as Meta, Intuit, and other major tech companies cut over 11,000 jobs this week, signaling a structural shift in the labor market that experts are calling "AI …
A developer launched an AI API pricing calculator that compares 28 models across 7 providers without requiring signup. The tool estimates monthly costs based on usage patterns, including batch process…
Researchers bypassed safety guardrails on Meta and Google's AI models within minutes, exposing vulnerabilities that allow the generation of harmful content. The findings raise concerns about the effec…