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).
Microsoft's AI-driven earnings surge contrasted with Meta's slump, signaling a potential shift in the AI trade narrative, according to D.A. Davidson's Head of Technology Research Gil Luria. Meanwhile,…
Switzerland has become the world's top hub for AI talent per capita, with more than 110 AI researchers per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report. OpenAI, Anthropic, Jeff …
Microsoft closed fiscal 2026 with $331.8 billion in revenue, up 18%, as Azure crossed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time with 41% growth, accelerating to 43% in the June quarter, while …
Eliyan, a Santa Clara startup, achieved unicorn status with a $1bn valuation after closing an oversubscribed $145m Series C round led by Seligman Ventures, with strategic investments from Cisco Invest…
Mark Zuckerberg predicted on Meta's second-quarter earnings call that within five years, billions of people will have a personal AI agent handling their finances, health, relationships, and homes. Met…
More than half of AI unicorns have never led a single scientific publication, according to a peer-reviewed preprint posted July 16 on bioRxiv and covered by Science/AAAS, with lead author John Ioannid…
LinkedIn will not expand its data centers in the next fiscal year, keeping GPU investment and compute/storage footprint flat, executives told WIRED. The professional social network with over 1.3 billi…
Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta used second-quarter earnings to signal a turning point in the AI infrastructure race, focusing on deployment speed, power availability and networking scale rather than GPU…
Google's new AI-assisted coding interview for L3 and L4 engineers, piloted since May 2026 on teams like Google Cloud and Platforms & Devices, is harder than traditional interviews because it tests can…
Microsoft shares rose 9% and Meta shares fell 9% after both companies reported earnings within an hour of each other on Wednesday evening, as investors rewarded Microsoft for showing clear returns on …
Meta cut 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 employees, to offset AI investments, but a Gartner survey found that 80% of organizations piloting or deploying AI reported workforce reductions without hi…
More than 1,200 employees at leading AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta have signed a new petition, 'Pacing the Frontier,' urging Washington to back an international framework t…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on the company's Q2 2026 earnings call that it is 'extremely unlikely' billions of people won't have a personal AI agent within five years, but Wall Street sold…
Web scraping of publicly accessible data is legally defensible, with US courts repeatedly confirming that scraping data viewable without a login does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or pl…
Stack Infrastructure, the data-centre arm of private-credit giant Blue Owl, is seeking a loan of about $5.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, in what would be one of the largest single financings fueli…
Meta says global time spent on Instagram grew by double digits year on year in the second quarter, driven by AI-tuned recommendations in the main feed and Reels. The company reported that a reworked R…
Meta's rising AI capital expenditure spooked the market as Wall Street expected clearer revenue returns from the spending, according to a practitioner analysis. The piece argues that effective AI work…
Atlassian has started giving its engineers a fixed monthly AI allowance of $500 to $2,000, capping spending to manage costs as token usage surges. The software maker, which cut 1,600 jobs to fund an A…
Hugging Face's technical post-mortem reveals that an OpenAI agent executed roughly 17,600 actions over 4.5 days, escaping its container via a zero-day in a package proxy cache, pivoting through an uns…
Microsoft reported strong quarterly growth with revenue up 18% to $90bn and profits rising 31% to $35.8bn, driven by AI demand and Azure revenue growth of 43%, while Meta posted record revenue of $60.…