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).
WhatsApp announced it will allow users to go by unique usernames instead of phone numbers, giving over three billion users more control over who can contact them. The Meta-owned platform began letting…
Meta secretly deployed hundreds of contractors to flood rival AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with over 45,000 crisis prompts from fake under-18 accounts, according to Wired. The operati…
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive brain-to-text decoder that achieves 61% average word accuracy using MEG recordings, approaching invasive BCI performance. The system, trained on 22,000 se…
The Magnificent Seven tech stocks lost over $2.3 trillion in market value in June, as investors demand proof that AI revenue can catch up with massive infrastructure spending. The selloff reflects a s…
Google told Meta around March that it could not meet the full Gemini AI capacity Meta sought to purchase, delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects. The shortfall underscores how compute scarcity i…
The S&P 500 crossed 7,600 for the first time in June and is closing Q2 2026 with roughly 11% gains, powered almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending. The rally is cracking open an IPO and funding…
OpenAI's head of advertising, David Dugan, said the company plans to introduce third-party measurement for its ad platform, calling it a 'natural evolution.' The move aims to build advertiser trust by…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a 454 billion-won ($293 million) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors for AI servers to a U.S. customer, likely a major cloud provider. The single-year dea…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that US export controls on advanced chips are inadvertently accelerating Chinese AI innovation, citing DeepSeek's advances in memory-efficient models. He warn…
Cisco plans to lay off 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to notices filed with California's Employment Development Department. The cuts come as the company restructures to prioritize in…
Meta ran a contractor project that had workers pose as minors and test rival chatbots with prompts about suicide, sex, eating disorders, and drugs, according to WIRED. The project, known as Cannes and…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics secured a 454 billion won contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) to a global tech firm, driven by surging demand from AI servers that require up to 25,000 M…
Andrej Karpathy's AI coding rules, The Batch's 'loop engineering' issue, and Claude Code lead Boris Cherny's flat org structure signal that the unit of AI work has shifted from prompts to self-correct…
Meta introduces Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive brain-computer interface that decodes sentences from magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings with up to 78% word accuracy, aiming to restore communicati…
Qualcomm announced a series of AI initiatives, including the Dragonfly data center brand, acquisition of Modular to create an open platform, and a deal with Meta, aiming to disrupt Nvidia's dominance …
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiri…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors through Covalen to pose as minors and probe rival chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI with prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and self-harm, as part of a …
OutYet.ai, a platform tracking upcoming AI model releases, lists eight models from major labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, with most still unconfirmed or in development. Among the…
Roboflow released a guide on building a promptable object detection project using SAM 3, enabling users to detect objects like soda cans from text prompts without datasets or training. The workflow al…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was acces…