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's smartglasses, which can record video covertly with only a small flashing light as a warning, pose a risk to children by enabling surreptitious filming that could feed AI-generated child abuse m…
AI agent traffic surged 45% in Q2 2026 to 17.7 billion requests, according to a DataDome report, as publishers shift focus from referral traffic to controlling how AI agents consume content. Meta's RA…
Hidden debt at five major U.S. tech companies — Meta, Oracle, and others — surged eightfold to an estimated $1.65 trillion over roughly four years as AI investments ballooned, a Nikkei study shows, su…
A common failure in AI assistants is providing confident but outdated answers because the model's knowledge is frozen at its training cutoff. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), introduced by Meta i…
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system designed to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin, with Microsoft signing on as a partner to deploy it on Azure. AMD claims Helios will match or exceed Nvidia's second-…
A nationwide wave of 142 protests in 42 U.S. states on Saturday marked the first coordinated backlash against AI data center expansion, organized by HumansFirst, a group co-founded by former Tea Party…
A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, resolving claims that the AI lab illegally d…
BlackRock is leading a debt sale of more than $12 billion to fund a Meta data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with the bonds issued by a company holding an 80% stake in the project while Meta owns th…
AI models can spontaneously develop new social biases about artificial demographic groups even when no inherent differences exist, according to a study by researchers from Princeton University and the…
A former investment banking macro trader turned Explainable AI researcher proposes adapting banking risk management frameworks, specifically capital adequacy requirements like Basel III, to frontier A…
Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot research and training facility in Fremont, California, where it plans to house nearly 200 employees and teach its Digit humanoid new skills. Cofounder and …
Google is developing a server chip codenamed Frozen v2, slated for a 2028 launch, to optimize its Gemini AI model and reduce reliance on third-party chip makers like Nvidia, according to a report. The…
About 82% of the 156,975 tech jobs eliminated globally in the first half of 2026 came from US companies, according to a new report from TradingPlatforms, a UK-based research firm. Almost half of the c…
Alphabet is signaling it may cut AI capital expenditure, potentially leading a retreat in Big Tech AI spending, while Bank of America maintains a Buy rating on Meta with an $835 price target based on …
A developer outlines how marketing agencies can build production AI agents in 2026, moving beyond simple copywriting to multi-step systems that call real APIs and optimize campaigns autonomously. The …
A new nationwide protest movement organized by the nonprofit Humans First staged more than 140 demonstrations across some 40 states on Saturday, marking the first coordinated national campaign against…
Utilities across the US are using eminent domain to acquire private land for transmission lines serving AI data centers, sparking legal battles over whether infrastructure built primarily for private …
Science fiction author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow argues in his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, that most people are being turned into servants of machines, not masters,…
OpenAI is on pace to miss its own 2030 ad revenue projection of $100 billion by 90%, according to a new analysis from marketing consulting firm Emarketer. Emarketer estimates the entire addressable ma…
Goldman Sachs strategists led by Lavinia Forcellese said AI-related expectations have overtaken traditional drivers such as China's growth outlook and US dollar moves as the largest contributor to cop…