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).
Meta committed $145 billion to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing approximately 8,000 employees, framing the cuts as a recalibration to "AI reality." Standard Chartered separately announc…
In 2026, over 138,000 tech workers have been laid off across 324 companies, with major firms like Meta, Oracle, and Microsoft citing AI as a reason for flatter, smaller teams. The article warns that i…
A Chicago man, Nikko D’Ambrosio, sued Meta and over two dozen women for defamation after a critical post about him appeared in a Facebook dating group, but the case was dismissed with prejudice by a d…
San Francisco and Silicon Valley are experiencing a "frenetic" malaise among AI workers, driven by extreme wealth inequality and existential uncertainty about the future, according to a viral tweet fr…
Meta AI glasses are enabling disabled users to navigate daily tasks hands-free, with veterans like Donald Overton, who lost his sight in Iraq, using the device to read menus and navigate airports, and…
LetinAR, a South Korean startup backed by LG Electronics, has developed an optical lens technology called PinTILT that aims to make AI-powered smart glasses thinner, lighter, and more power-efficient …
Caitlin Kalinowski, a veteran hardware engineer who led teams at OpenAI, Meta, and Apple, argues the AI industry is entering a hardware boom driven by robotics and memory constraints. She warns startu…
On May 20, approximately 8,000 Meta employees will lose their jobs as the company redirects funds toward artificial intelligence, while tech and finance sectors shed 13,000 and 11,000 jobs respectivel…
Small language models with 1-9 billion parameters now handle 60-80% of enterprise AI workloads more efficiently than frontier models, according to a 2026 analysis of enterprise AI infrastructure. Thes…
Meta has begun tracking its employees' mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots through a new tool called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), with no opt-out option, to train proprietar…
At the 2026 Meta Marketing Summit E-Commerce edition in Bangalore and Mumbai, Meta executives announced that AI, video-first discovery, and conversational messaging are fundamentally reshaping India’s…
Meta launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, a private mode that prevents even Meta from accessing user conversations. The feature processes messages in a secure, tempora…
Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, told Y Combinator that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive by 2030, giving founders a four-year window to prepare. He outl…
A five-agent AI sales team costing $300 per month can replace both $5,000-per-month AI SDR tools and $60,000-per-year human sales development representatives, according to a new architecture guide. Th…
Meta researchers developed In-Kernel Broadcast Optimization (IKBO), a kernel-model-system co-design that eliminates redundant user-embedding replication during recommendation model inference. Deployed…
More than a trillion dollars has been invested in artificial intelligence, yet tech giants like Meta and OpenAI continue to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI) and superintelligence (ASI) tha…
Stripe announced 288 new products and features at its annual Sessions conference on Tuesday, including an expanded Agentic Commerce Suite with partnerships with Meta and Google that enables native che…
Platformer is restructuring its daily newsletter model to focus more on original reporting and less on link aggregation, as AI tools increasingly automate the curation of news summaries. The shift com…
Meta's FAIR team documented a series of training failures in 2021 for their OPT-175B model, including repeated loss explosions and learning issues that required extensive hyperparameter tuning and arc…
People often must act against their personal ethics due to societal pressures, practical constraints, or imperfect circumstances, using examples like using Meta-owned WhatsApp or occasionally eating m…