The AI Boom Is Making Nuclear Power Bankable Again
Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon are betting billions on nuclear power to fuel AI data centers, reviving an industry stalled for 40 years, according to Forbes Senior Contributor Ken Silverstein.…
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, Meta, Google and Amazon are betting billions on nuclear power to fuel AI data centers, reviving an industry stalled for 40 years, according to Forbes Senior Contributor Ken Silverstein.…
Moody's warns that heavy AI spending threatens the credit quality of Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet, among others, as the costs of building and maintaining AI infrastructure strain balance sheets.…
The U.S. government is weighing whether AI distillation — a standard technique for training one model using another's outputs — constitutes model theft when done without authorization, as a House bill…
An industry campaign against broad restrictions on downloadable AI models has doubled to 50 signatories, adding Google and OpenAI to a coalition hosted by Nvidia that includes Microsoft, Meta, IBM, AM…
Instagram has started banning accounts and removing videos that use Meta's camera-equipped glasses to secretly film and harass strangers, including pickup-line and prank content, according to Instagra…
Meta paused a test that would have limited free use of Conversation Focus on its smart glasses to three hours per month after customer backlash, keeping the feature free for eligible early-access user…
The AI industry has already spent over $65 million ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with super PACs backed by figures such as OpenAI President Greg Brockman and venture firms Andreessen Horowitz a…
A deepening divide in Silicon Valley over restricting Chinese AI has pitted companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which argue for tight control of AI models, against Microsoft, Nvidia, and others that …
AMD's stock surged 142% in the first half of 2026, far outpacing Nvidia's 4% gain, even though Nvidia still commands 87.4% of AI data center GPU revenue according to Axis Intelligence. AMD's data cent…
Silicon Valley is publicly divided over whether the U.S. should restrict Chinese open-source AI models, pitting OpenAI and Anthropic against a coalition including Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, and hundreds…
Systems engineer Farid Zakaria published a command-line client on July 9 that bypasses Xe Iaso's Anubis proof-of-work bot wall, demonstrating that the defense primarily stops low-effort scrapers unabl…
Meta attempted to impose a $20 monthly paywall on Conversation Focus, an on-device accessibility feature for its smart glasses that requires no internet connection, limiting free use to three hours pe…
Monday.com laid off about 20% of its workforce (over 600 employees) as part of a restructuring plan tied to its AI-driven growth strategy, according to an SEC filing. Co-founder Eran Zinman said the m…
Nvidia's open weights letter has grown from 25 to 50 signatories, but Amazon and Anthropic have not signed. The letter, initiated by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calls for open AI development and has attr…
Samsung Electronics is betting on a lighter design and all-day comfort to challenge Meta in the smart eyewear market, with its first Galaxy AI glasses featuring split computing that distributes tasks …
A developer built a production-ready automated nutrition logging system combining Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM) with GPT-4o Vision, using FastAPI and Pydantic to transform food photos into struc…
OpenAI and Anthropic have been privately lobbying Washington regulators to restrict open-weight AI models from China, even as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly supports open-source AI, according to The N…
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family, launched on April 2, 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, anchors a growing industry coalition including Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia pushing back against Anthropic and …
Amazon is requiring third-party sellers to label product images or videos containing AI-generated people, following a New York law mandating transparency around synthetic performers in ads. The compan…
Open-source AI models are becoming a strategic tool for companies like Meta and Mistral, which release them as loss leaders to control the ecosystem and commoditize the technology, stripping the compe…