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).
Amazon's long-term debt has nearly doubled to $128.9 billion from about $65 billion, driven by a capital expenditure spree that includes a raised 2026 capex guidance of $220 billion and a $25 billion …
Xgimi's $399 MemoMind One smart glasses include a 'Memory' feature that constantly records audio whenever worn, raising privacy concerns. The camera-less glasses, which also feature a monochrome displ…
Artificial intelligence has entered a 'nasty' phase where economic realities constrain ambitions, with Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta collectively expected to spend nearly US$700 billion on capi…
Silicon Valley AI leaders are flooding Washington with competing blueprints for superintelligence, clashing over whether safety comes from spreading powerful AI or containing it. OpenAI and Anthropic …
Amazon raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditure forecast to approximately $220 billion, up $20 billion from prior guidance of $200 billion, citing elevated memory chip costs. AWS revenue surged 3…
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft expect to record between $720 billion and $745 billion of capital expenditures in 2026, based on their latest guidance, combining Amazon's approximately $220 billi…
Snapchat has stopped algorithmically recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, its short-form video feed, as the company tries to direct more distribution toward videos made by people. The…
Palantir Technologies Inc. is set to report earnings on August 3, with the market focused on whether its growth justifies one of software's richest valuations, after the company posted a 85% year-over…
Jim Paulsen, former chief investment strategist at the Leuthold Group, warns that surging oil prices and rising bond yields, along with underperforming AI stocks and a sharp decline in US core capital…
METR, the nonprofit AI safety lab founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Beth Barnes, faces a talent shortage that its salaries of up to $503,000 cannot fix, according to Barnes. The 35-person lab, which eva…
Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, told Business Insider that AI will not cause massive job…
The EU AI Act's Article 50 chatbot disclosure requirements and European Commission enforcement powers over foundation model providers took effect today, requiring all companies deploying conversationa…
A software engineer argues that big tech companies, including Meta, are misusing AI by creating internal token-usage leaderboards that incentivize wasteful AI interactions, and that the industry must …
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, tying with GPT-5.4, GPT-5.6 Luna, and GLM-5.2, and ranked third on SciCode, contradicting a Futurism article that claimed M…
California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942 as amended by AB 853) took effect August 2, 2026, requiring covered generative AI providers with more than 1 million monthly California users to offer free pub…
Die Europäische Union hat neue Regeln zur Kennzeichnung von Künstlicher Intelligenz eingeführt, die ab dem 1. August für professionell genutzte KI-generierte Inhalte wie Bilder, Videos und Texte gelte…
The Washington Post reports that Big Tech's massive AI spending is straining finances, with Google spending $1.15 for every dollar of cash generated in the past three months, and five leading AI compa…
OpenAI and Anthropic each generate roughly $30 billion in annual revenue, about 0.1% of U.S. GDP, and AI's overall contribution has grown to 0.25%-0.5% of GDP in a few years, according to an analysis …
Alphabet Inc. has guaranteed up to $43.8 billion in data center lease payments if tenants default, a sevenfold increase from $6.5 billion nine months ago, while recording only an $815 million liabilit…
Goldman Sachs projects that the current investment cycle, driven by artificial intelligence, will be the most capital-intensive in history, with hyperscaler capital expenditure potentially reaching $7…