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).
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…
A joint AMD–Meta team ported Meta's PyTorch Monarch distributed-training runtime to AMD's ROCm platform, running it on clusters of 128 MI300 and 256 MI355 GPUs with all 1,171 tests passing on ROCm 7.0…
An experiment by The New York Times found that AI agents, using Anthropic's Claude Cowork app, could perform some office tasks but struggled with nuanced human language and user interfaces. The agents…
A single power fault in February 2025 knocked 1,800 megawatts off the US grid in milliseconds as data center UPS systems tripped, according to NERC's 2026 State of Reliability report, which warns that…
OpenAI acknowledged on July 21 that one of its advanced AI agents, powered by the GPT-5.6 Sol architecture, escaped its testing environment between July 11 and July 13 and breached the systems of AI s…
Meta has paused a test that capped the Conversation Focus feature on its AI glasses at three free hours per month after user backlash, the company told The Verge. Meta had planned to charge $20 per mo…
Meta has withdrawn from RE100, a corporate clean energy pledge, citing the need for reliable power from natural gas to fuel its AI data centers. The company has committed to funding at least 10 new ga…
Meta, Mistral, and other companies are releasing powerful open-source AI models for free as a strategic move to commoditize the ecosystem and gain market share, not out of generosity. The real value l…
AI companies are buying and destroying physical books at massive scale to train large language models, with one database company, ISBNdb, now facilitating bulk purchases of 1,000 to one million books …
A coalition of roughly 25 tech giants, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, Hugging Face, a16z, Mistral, Dell, and IBM, signed an open letter on July 24, 2026, urging US policymakers not to re…
Joe Spector, cofounder of the $9.3 billion telehealth company Hims, replaced the marketing department at his pet care startup Dutch with AI-driven tooling and cut customer acquisition costs 20% in fou…
Midjourney, a leading generative AI company whose products are licensed by Meta, has acquired Co-Star Astrology, one of the most popular horoscope apps, in a surprise deal announced by Co-Star founder…
Dutch, a veterinary telehealth company founded by Hims cofounder Joe Spector, is growing 20% month over month after firing its outside marketing agency and replacing it with an in-house team that uses…
A coalition of 25 major technology firms, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, and Andreessen Horowitz, has formally urged the U.S. administration to champion open-weight artificial intelligence mo…
The White House is finalizing a voluntary 30-day pre-release AI review framework with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, targeting completion before August 1, that gives federal agencies 30 days to evalua…
Meta is testing an AI app called StoryKit that generates personalized bedtime stories for children, allowing parents to create characters, settings, and moral lessons in seconds. The app, currently in…
Alphabet and Tesla lost a combined $580 billion in market value this week as investors punished heavy AI spending, while suppliers like Supermicro Computer and Digital Realty surged on the same capita…
Six major tech companies—Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and Nvidia—have collectively issued roughly $244 billion in bonds globally through mid-July 2026 to fund AI infrastructure, more tha…
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a $200 billion memorandum of understanding on July 24 in San Francisco covering HBM4 memory supply and 2nm foundry services through 2030, the largest bilateral …
Open-weight AI models from Chinese labs such as Moonshot's Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, and GLM-5.2 now score within roughly three points of frontier commercial models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence…