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 launched a new advertisement promoting AI optimism set to David Bowie's song "Five Years," which is about a mass extinction event. The ad, shared by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, features upbeat visuals o…
Evercore ISI senior managing director Mark Mahaney projects that Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft will spend an unprecedented $1 trillion on AI capital expenditures by 2027, citing the companies' r…
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) on Wednesday introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, bipartisan legislation that would grant the Department of Homeland Security authority to compel AI comp…
Alphabet's contracted future spending commitments hit $811 billion at the end of Q2 2026, up nearly $500 billion from Q1, driven by AI infrastructure supply agreements covering chips, data centers, el…
Alphabet posted its first cash burn on record, a $5.9 billion outflow in the second quarter of 2026, sending its stock down 5% as AI spending soars. The Google parent's aggressive AI buildout now cons…
Meta is testing an AI-powered bedtime story app that uses an LLM agent to generate child-friendly narratives in real-time, allowing parents to input keywords like 'space' or 'magic forest' to guide th…
Big Tech companies have $1.67 trillion in disclosed future obligations, comprising $821 billion in uncommenced leases and $848 billion in purchase, construction and other commitments, according to a r…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched an AI-optimism campaign on Thursday, taking a veiled jab at rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI that have warned about AI risks. The campaign, which includes a video ad …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing a narrative of 'AI optimism,' arguing that artificial intelligence will fundamentally upgrade human capability rather than replace it, with a focus on democratizing…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a 45-second video titled “The Future Is for Everyone” on July 29, positioning AI as a force for human connection rather than isolation, ahead of Meta’s Q2 earnings call…
Alphabet raised its full-year capital expenditure guidance to between $195 billion and $205 billion on July 22, 2026, nearly double its 2025 infrastructure spending, as the Google parent accelerates i…
The White House is finalizing a 30-day pre-release review agreement with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for frontier AI models, with classified evaluation benchmarks housed at NSA and CISA, expected be…
Cloudflare and Block beat earnings guidance and raised outlooks while cutting thousands of jobs, with CEO Matthew Prince explaining that 'the way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed.' AI-n…
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs, or 13% of its global workforce, and recorded $1.84 billion in severance costs as it redirects capital toward AI infrastructure and data centers, according to the company's SEC …
Nvidia has shipped 'hundreds of thousands' of Grace standalone servers and over 2.5 million Grace CPUs to data centers globally, the company disclosed. SVP of hardware engineering Andrew Bell said a d…
Anthropic is reportedly exploring a massive compute partnership with Meta, according to a post on the AI coding community platform. The potential deal would mark a significant collaboration between th…
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index, based on data from 20,000 workers, finds that AI has lowered the floor of what anyone can produce to near zero while raising the ceiling of what the best work can ac…
An activist group in London has installed a guerrilla lenticular ad at a bus stop, parodying Kylie Jenner's promotion of Meta's AI smart glasses to criticize the company's data privacy practices.…
Senator Elizabeth Warren accused major AI companies of using US trade deals to lock in limits on oversight, arguing that industry-backed non-discrimination clauses in bilateral agreements could underm…
Uber laid off 10 percent of its customer service team, citing AI as the reason, according to Bloomberg. The cuts affected the Community Operations division, which Uber's vice president Megha Yethadka …