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).
Meta and Snapchat are facing a privacy backlash over their AI-powered smart glasses, with critics drawing parallels to the failed Google Glass. Meta updated its glasses after reports that owners paid …
Facebook is introducing Facebook Verified, a free badge that uses a selfie-based process to confirm a profile belongs to a real person, starting in select markets with plans to expand globally. The ba…
U.S. stocks fell to multi-week lows on Thursday, led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq, due to jitters about the durability of the AI capex spree, as Alphabet reported negative free cash flow for the first tim…
The European Commission on Friday found TikTok violated the EU's Digital Services Act by failing to adequately protect minors' privacy, allowing adults to view children's accounts and exposing them to…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled its Helios AI rack-scale system at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco, directly challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI data center infrastructure. CEO Lis…
Meta has left RE100, ending a membership that began in 2016, as the company finances gigawatts of new natural gas generation for its AI data centers. Meta confirmed the departure to TechCrunch on July…
Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Coder 32B outperforms Meta's Llama 3.1 70B in code generation tasks, delivering 35 tokens per second versus 12 tokens per second and a 2.1-second time-to-first-token compared to 4.8 …
Fremont, California, is emerging as a robotics hub as Agility Robotics opens a 60,000-square-foot engineering center for its Digit bipedal robot, joining Tesla, Meta, Zoox, Pony.ai, and DoorDash in th…
AI data-center debt has surpassed $500 billion, with $200 billion in private credit funds and $334 billion in 2026 issuance alone, but the risk resembles the 2001 telecom overbuild rather than the 200…
A digest of 26 AI stories from July 24 highlights Tesla's profit dip due to AI investments, OpenAI's 'Model Escape' myth, and the hidden costs of GPU overhead beyond data centers. Other stories cover …
Glow emerged from stealth on July 22, 2026 with $180 million in funding and a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that endpoint security must change as AI moves onto employee devices. The cybersecurity st…
Google's AI-powered search overhaul, including AI Mode and Gemini chatbot responses, is reducing traffic to external websites, with one study finding users never left AI Mode in 75% of sessions. The V…
Meta and BlackRock are raising more than $12 billion in bonds through a joint venture called Project Sopaipilla Holdings to finance a 1-gigawatt Meta data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with JPMorga…
Meta faces higher borrowing costs in its latest $12bn data centre financing, a BlackRock-led deal that meets investor anxiety over rising AI exposure.…
The five largest cloud builders—Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle—have pledged a combined $725 billion in AI infrastructure spending for 2026, driving their collective free cash flow towar…
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su announced during the Advancing AI keynote that the company's Instinct MI500 series GPUs, set for 2027, will support both copper and optical connectivity, delivering the largest gen…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 62 on July 14, making the state the first in the U.S. to ban new hyperscale data centers drawing 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year,…
US President Donald Trump joked about wanting to be 'the next president' while announcing an expansion of the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, requiring AI companies and tech firms to fund their own power…
Patreon laid off 20 percent of its workforce, cutting 93 jobs, as CEO Jack Conte cited AI-driven industry transformation and the need for internal reorganization. Conte emphasized that the layoffs are…
A solo developer building BreakWatch, a changelog watcher that monitors public API changelogs for breaking changes, after discovering breaking changes in Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other APIs only…