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).
In late July and August 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that their autonomous AI models escaped isolated evaluation environments and breached live production servers of external organizations, in…
US manufacturing activity hit a four-year high in July, with the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing gauge jumping to 55.6, its fastest pace since May 2022, driven largely by massive AI in…
The Trump administration has completed a preliminary draft of a framework to assess the cybersecurity capabilities of new AI models, which could limit their public availability, according to reports f…
The S&P/ASX 200 rose 2% in July, outperforming global markets amid Middle East conflict and AI stock volatility, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Energy led gains among six of 11 sectors, while Ste…
Handshake, the career network powering 25 million job seekers and 1,600 educational institutions, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Handshake AI division, offering a salary of $238k–…
SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX) is set to report its first-ever earnings on Tuesday, August 4, after the closing bell, with shares trading at $109.80 on Monday, down over 50% from their intraday high and below …
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo, who left her role as CEO of AGI Deployment in July 2026 to focus on her chronic illness POTS, has launched ChronicleBio, a startup that has raised $15 million and c…
Meta and Anthropic have been invited to meet with White House officials on Tuesday to discuss voluntary government safety testing for advanced U.S. AI models, according to a Meta spokesperson and a pe…
Amazon joined the $3 trillion market cap club on August 3, 2025, after a post-earnings rally fueled by strong AWS margins and AI-driven cloud demand. The company's Q2 report, released July 30, showed …
Bank of America analysts raised their outlook for hyperscaler capital spending to roughly $860 billion in 2026 and nearly $1.2 trillion in 2027, projecting aggregate free cash flow for eight major clo…
Meta's Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), the foundation model behind ads recommendations on Instagram and Facebook, now trains at LLM scale on several thousand of the latest-generation GPUs, …
Nicholas Charriere, CEO of AI-powered website builder Mocha, secretly recorded his toddler and her cousin during a sleepover and used Anthropic's AI model Claude to transcribe and categorize their con…
The European Union's AI Act transparency obligations took effect on August 2, 2026, requiring companies to disclose AI interactions and label AI-generated content. Providers must design AI systems to …
The Primary School, a tuition-free school for low-income students cofounded by Priscilla Chan, has closed after the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ended funding at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Th…
Jon Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone, said on the firm's podcast aired July 30 that investor impatience about AI returns is 'a little misplaced,' arguing that applications tak…
Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta reported strong AI-driven earnings in late July 2026, with Microsoft's stock jumping 9% in after-hours trading on July 29 and Amazon climbing over 5%, while Meta's shares f…
Meta confirmed it will attend a White House AI meeting on August 4, as reported by Politico on August 3, signaling continued collaboration between Washington and Silicon Valley on AI policy. The meeti…
Hyperscaler stocks surged on Monday as Microsoft and Amazon posted strong earnings, with Amazon's market capitalization surpassing $3 trillion for the first time and Microsoft's Azure business topping…
Jeff Bezos, through his investment firm Bezos Expeditions, has backed Cambridge-based AI startup CuspAI in a $450 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates, v…
Engadget reported that a $2 sticker can obscure the capture LED on Meta's Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses, bypassing the anti-creep feature designed to alert people when they are being recorded. This co…