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).
Anthropic's Claude Code maintains a significant lead in the AI coding-agent sector despite rivals like OpenAI's Codex and open-source models offering cost savings, according to a report from Vera. The…
The European Commission's €30 billion AI gigafactory tender, opened on 30 July, can fund useful compute but is insufficient for a continental AI strategy, according to an analysis by an unnamed author…
OpenAI announced on August 1st that an internal version of its next major model, Astra, produced new results for 10 longstanding problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, a claim suppo…
The European Commission begins enforcing the EU AI Act on August 2, 2026, activating Article 50 transparency rules, general-purpose AI penalties, and fines up to €35 million or 7% of global annual tur…
DeepSeek released V4 Flash, a coding model that performs near Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 but costs about 28 cents per output unit versus $25 on Opus 4.8, a 99% discount, accelerating the commoditizat…
The Delhi High Court granted interim protection to former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh, ruling that AI-generated deepfakes, fabricated social media posts, and unauthorized merchandise violate his pers…
The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against telehealth company Hims and Hers, alleging it shared users' health information with Meta and Snap, including data on erectile dysfunction treatm…
Silicon Valley venture investors are defending the AI market's frothy valuations as a necessary driver of innovation, with funding in the first half of 2026 reaching $413 billion, surpassing all of 20…
Nvidia has launched Vera, its first fully-custom CPU, challenging Intel and AMD's dominance in the datacenter CPU market. The chip features 88 custom Armv9.2 cores, 176 threads, and support for up to …
Venture capital in 2025 is all-in on AI, but generative AI's only proven use cases are slop and scams, according to a blog post by an author citing David Gerard and others. The post argues that Big Te…
Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have collectively committed nearly $2.4 trillion in data center spending through 2030, with combined capital expenditure guidance of about $725 billion for 2026 a…
SK Hynix reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 60.54 trillion won, up 557% year-over-year, with revenue of 79.32 trillion won and an operating margin of about 76%, yet its stock sold of…
LinkedIn added a 'Seems like AI slop' button on Thursday to let users flag low-quality or AI-heavy posts, as the company blocks hundreds of thousands of automated slop comment attempts daily and has p…
Google removed a new AI image-editing feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, following user-generated deepfakes of disasters and other misleading content. The feature, introduced T…
Handshake, the career platform powering 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions, is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer I for its Network and Handshake AI Marke…
OpenAI has surpassed 1 billion active users on ChatGPT, according to the company, making scale its primary competitive advantage over rivals like Google, Anthropic, and Meta. The milestone underscores…
Amazon.com Inc. surged 15.32% in its best single-day gain in 14 years, adding roughly $390 billion in market value after reporting Q2 2026 earnings that showed AWS revenue jumping 37% year-over-year t…
Cooper Saye, a former engineer at Jane Street and fintech company Ramp, joined OpenAI on July 31, 2026, as a Member of Technical Staff to work on recursive self-improvement (RSI) evaluations, a role f…
Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (Google's parent company) collectively added nearly $1.5 trillion in market capitalization in a single week, bringing their combined market cap to roughly $9.6 trillion…
NVIDIA Corporation CEO Jensen Huang's 2024 claim that its Blackwell GPUs would reduce large language model inference operating costs and energy by up to 25x has been pared back to 10x, a 150% overstat…