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Meta stock posts best week since Feb 2024 as AI optimism lifts shares
Jul 10, 03:44 PM

Meta stock posts best week since Feb 2024 as AI optimism lifts shares

Question: can Meta’s cheaper Muse pricing and chip plans turn AI sceptics into believers? The stock notched its best week since Feb 2024 as investors bet on execution.

Meta says exploring AI cloud business as excess compute attracts demand
Jul 9, 06:04 PM

Meta says exploring AI cloud business as excess compute attracts demand

Meta says exploring a cloud business to sell spare AI compute and hosted models as demand from outside customers grows; plan is early-stage and unconfirmed.

Meta pays contractors to pose as teens, probe rival chatbots
otherJul 4, 01:02 PM

Meta pays contractors to pose as teens, probe rival chatbots

WIRED reports Meta ran a contractor program called "Cannes" that paid people to pose as teens and feed rival chatbots thousands of sexual, suicidal and disturbing prompts. Meta calls it safety testing; critics call the scale and method alarming.

Google Enhances Gemini API with Multimodal File Search
May 5, 06:00 PM

Google Enhances Gemini API with Multimodal File Search

Google enhances Gemini API File Search with multimodal capabilities, enabling advanced RAG systems to process text and images natively.

Big Tech's AI Spending Reaches $700 Billion in 2026
May 4, 11:58 AM

Big Tech's AI Spending Reaches $700 Billion in 2026

Big Tech's AI spending reaches $700 billion in 2026, sparking mixed reactions on Wall Street amid capacity constraints and geopolitical tensions.

Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model Amid AI Race
Apr 9, 05:57 PM

Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model Amid AI Race

Meta launches Muse Spark, an advanced AI model, marking the first output from its Superintelligence Labs amid the AI arms race.

Meta's AI Taskers Face Ethical Challenges in Data Labeling
Apr 7, 12:01 PM

Meta's AI Taskers Face Ethical Challenges in Data Labeling

Meta's AI taskers face ethical challenges as they label explicit content for AI training, revealing labor disparities and mental health concerns.

Meta to Partially Open-Source New AI Models in 2026
Apr 6, 05:10 PM

Meta to Partially Open-Source New AI Models in 2026

Meta plans to partially open-source its new AI models, Avocado and Mango, under new AI chief Alexandr Wang, excluding key features for safety.

Meta's TRIBE v2 AI Model Decodes Brain Activity in Real Time
Mar 28, 09:38 PM

Meta's TRIBE v2 AI Model Decodes Brain Activity in Real Time

Meta's new TRIBE v2 foundation model can predict how the human brain responds to images, sounds, and speech—opening new frontiers in neuroscience research and AI-brain interfaces.

Meta Cuts 700 Jobs While Handing Out $921M Stock Options to Executives
Mar 28, 09:37 PM

Meta Cuts 700 Jobs While Handing Out $921M Stock Options to Executives

Meta is cutting 700 jobs across multiple teams while simultaneously unveiling executive stock options worth up to $921 million per leader, highlighting the stark contrast between workforce reductions and executive compensation in tech.

AI Industry Forms Alliance for Optical Interconnects
Mar 22, 07:39 PM

AI Industry Forms Alliance for Optical Interconnects

Leading tech companies form the Optical Compute Interconnect Alliance to standardize optical interconnects for AI data centers.