Nvidia partners with Samsung Foundry to expand NVLink Fusion, embedding custom silicon across AI data centers while controlling ecosystem access

AMDs Helios rack blends Metas ORW standard and MI450 GPUs, promising open AI infrastructure as Oracle commits massive GPU resources

In October of last year, Google partnered with a nuclear energy company called Kairos Power to construct seven SMRs across the US. A month later, Meta was also looking to build an AI data center powered by nuclear energy, but reportedly ran into a discovery of a rare bee species that held up plans

US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton has reduced the damages Meta is getting from the NSO Group from $167 million to $4 million, but she has also ordered the Israeli spyware maker to stop targeting WhatsApp

451 calculates this will rise again to 75.8 GW in 2026, then 108 GW in 2028, before hitting 134.4 GW by 2030. These figures also exclude enterprise-owned facilities, only considering those of the hyperscale tech giants such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, alongside leased and crypto-mining sites

Meta has a crazy new idea about how to limit spam on WhatsApp.

Cleverly concocked deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books Facebook parent Meta has managed to convince private equity firm Blue Owl Capital to finance its 2.2 gigawatt Hyperion datacenter project in Richland Parish, Louisiana.

Meta's AI is practically everywhere on its platforms

A Facebook feature that scans your phone's photo library to make AI collages and edits is now available in North America. Meta tested it earlier this year

I've been wearing the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses daily for ten days and I'm still a bit conflicted

First, Auto Clips is a new feature that automates highlight creation for streamers. Twitch also mentioned that Meta's AI glasses will soon support Twitch live-streaming

The test will roll out in multiple countries over the coming weeks. The trial is the Meta-owned company's latest attempt to fend off its festering spam and scam problem

Following a report exposing Meta's loose safety controls for AI avatars, the company has overhauled the feature for teen users.

Parents will be able to turn off chats with AI characters completely, block specific characters and get insight into what their teens are discussing.

(Reuters) -Meta said on Friday it will let parents disable their teens' private chats with AI characters, adding another measure to make its social media platforms safe for minors after fierce criticism over the behavior of its flirty chatbots

On December 15, Meta will be shutting down its Messenger apps on Mac and Windows for good

Meta is working on new supervision controls that will allow parents to cut off their teens' access to AI chatbots on its platforms completely

If youre used to using the Messenger app for macOS and Windows, its best to go back to the browser, as Meta is shutting down the program

(Reuters) -Shares of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica surged more than 9% in early trading on Friday after the Franco-Italian group reported better than expected quarterly revenue a day earlier, helped by strong demand for its Meta AI glasses

The arrival of Sora, along with similar AI-powered video generators released by Meta and Google this year, has major implications

Meta has officially launched Horizon TV, a virtual reality "smart TV" app for its Quest headsets

Meta is shutting down its Messenger app for macOS and Windows and pushing users to the web

EssilorLuxottica attributed a healthy amount of its third-quarter growth to a lift from its partnership with Meta.

Activist Lennon Torres argues that Meta's Instagram Teen Accounts are more about perception than safety.

Apple keeps losing AI executives to Meta.

That's perhaps in part because the studio is leaning into a community-driven narrative approach. Victories and defeats will contribute "to the evolving Tapestry of Fate, where seasonal decisions will change gameplay, lore and map meta." We shouldn't have to wait too long to see how all of that works in practice

I got the chance to try out the new Meta Ray-Ban Display and thought it could be great for driving, but I don't think so anymore

The AI boom has resulted in "unbelievable, crazy valuations," Clegg said.

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No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet Meta on Wednesday entered into a partnership with Arm Holdings with the aim of helping its software run more efficiently on the British chip designer's CPUs.

While a necessary addition, the new feature highlights how far Threads still has to go to truly compete.

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms said it is partnering with chip tech provider Arm Holdings to power the systems that drive personalization across its apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as companies rush to upgrade the chip technology underpinning their services

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it would invest $1.5 billion in a data center in Texas, breaking ground at its 29th such facility globally, as the social media giant expands infrastructure to support artificial intelligence workloads

It took two years for Threads to get messaging , but you thankfully don't have to wait that long to be able to start group DMs. Meta has started rolling out group chats for the app, which lets you add up to 50 of your followers to a single conversation

The company pulled people working on the lighter Vision Pro, Gurman said in another report , and moved them to its smart glasses project. Apple is reportedly working on a smart glasses model with no display and is meant to pair with iPhones, along with another model that's equipped with a built-in screen and can directly compete with Meta's Ray-Ban Display

The partnership brings Samsung Foundry into Nvidias high-speed interconnect ecosystem, expanding NVLinks reach beyond TSMC and deepening Nvidias control over AI system design

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that Meta had complied with its request to take down a page on its Facebook platform that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X that the Department of Justice contacted Facebook in order to have a group removed that she claimed "was being used to dox and target" US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operating in Chicago. We reached out to Meta for confirmation and a representative said, "This Group was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm," however they did not confirm the name of the group or whether the DOJ was involved in the action

This move sounds like a wise addition, but the effectiveness of any advisor hinges on listening to their insights. We've seen other tech companies establish and then utterly ignore their advisory councils; Meta is one of the notable recent examples

Meta removed a Facebook group page that was allegedly used to "dox and target" U.S

AMD has showcased its new Helios rack-scale AI hardware platform based on the Open Rack Wide standard developed by Meta

It's designed to give developers, researchers and data scientists enough computer power to run complex AI models. Early recipients of the PCs include Anaconda, Google, Hugging Face, Meta and Microsoft

Following warnings that safety tools don't work, Meta is overhauling Teen Accounts with PG-13 settings modeled after Hollywood.

Older teens will also no longer be able to opt out of the default stricter settings without parental approval. Meta first introduced teen accounts for Instagram a year ago, when it began automatically moving teens into the more locked-down accounts that come with stricter privacy settings and parental controls

Meta will now limit the content that teenage users can see on Instagram to what they would typically encounter in a movie rated PG-13, the social media company said Tuesday

Anduril, the military technology company founded by the founder of Oculus VR and creator of the Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey, officially announced the EagleEye helmet. Specifically, it is an AI-powered mixed reality helmet, and designed for use by soldiers on the battlefield, and it’s designed in collaboration with Meta

Palmer Luckey's defense tech firm Anduril has unveiled EagleEye, an AI-powered mixed-reality combat helmet built in partnership with Meta

The State Assembly passed AB 1043 with a 58-0 vote in September. The legislation received backing from notable tech companies such as Google, OpenAI, Meta, Snap and Pinterest

DeepSeek leads Hugging Face in popularity. Chinese firms like Alibaba receive higher ratings than OpenAI and Meta on LMArena

Your Meta Quest 3, or 3S, is getting access to the latest Horizon OS update (v81), and with it come some serious upgrades

Device-makers must group users into four age brackets and share this information with apps. Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Snap supported the bill

The Investing Club holds its "Morning Meeting" every weekday at 10:20 a.m

(Reuters) -OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom to produce its first in-house artificial intelligence processors, the latest tie-up for the world's most valuable startup for computing power amid surging demand for its services

In a rare event where someone else is copying from Meta.

The AI hardware industry is shifting to an annual release cycle as AMD, Nvidia, and major hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, and Meta accelerate development of specialized accelerators for AI workloads through 2028

"In a new Stratechery interview, Altman admitted Instagram changed his mind about ads," the site Search Engine Land reported Wednesday, citing these two quotes from the interview: - "I love Instagram ads, they've added value to me, I found stuff I never would've found, I bought a bunch of stuff, I actively like Instagram ads. I think there's many things I respect about Meta, but getting that so right was a surprisingly cool thing for me

A note from a Meta executive reportedly states that employees building the Metaverse should use AI to work five times faster.

If you opt-in to the test, Instagram's current tabs for your feed, search, creating a new post, Reels and your profile page will be replaced by a new layout that swaps search and Reels, and switches the dedicated tab for creating a post with a new one for DMs. Meta's test also makes it possible to swipe between tabs

"There is an opportunity to shock audiences, to re-imagine a whole genre of storytelling."

Meta expects expects 80% of Metaverse employees to have AI integrated into their daily routines by the end of the year.

A Meta executive in charge of building the company's metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to "go 5X faster," according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media

As part of the deal, Campus will buy Pesenti's artificial intelligence learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount.

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.

Meta expands Reels translations to Hindi and Portuguese, with more languages on the way.

Meta has deployed AI-powered translation tools for Reels to allow international viewership

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: The City of New York is reaching across the country to sue tech giants headquartered in California over allegations that their platforms have created a youth mental health crisis. The city, along with its school districts and health department, alleges that "gross negligence" on the part of Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance has gotten kids hooked on social media, which has created a "public nuisance" that is placing a strain on the city's resources

A new leak from Android Headlines is set to change that, detailing not only the specs of Samsung's new headset, but also a final name and new controller accessories ahead of the device's rumored launch later this fall. Samsung's Project Moohan officially called "Samsung Galaxy XR" per Android Headlines is a marriage of sorts between the discontinued Meta Quest Pro and an Apple Vision Pro

Samsung Galaxy XR The Galaxy XR will be equipped with two 4K micro-LED displays with 4,032 ppi. Both displays combined will feature 29 million pixels, which is more than the 23 million pixels offered by Apple's Vision Pro or Meta's Quest 3 headsets

iFixits teardown of the new $800 AR glasses shows how Meta fixed some AR problems and created a new one.

The how-to website iFixit posted a teardown of Meta's new Ray-Ban Display augmented reality glasses and came away impressed by the tech but wary of repairability

Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that "it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented."

New York City, its school district and healthcare system have filed a lawsuit against Meta, Snap TikTok and YouTube for allegedly contributing to a "youth mental health crisis" with intentionally addictive platforms

One of those people said OpenAI had discussed setting up a "captive" -- a ringfenced insurance vehicle often used by large companies to manage emerging risks. Big tech companies such as Microsoft, Meta, and Google have used captives to cover Internet-era liabilities such as cyber or social media

According to a new report today, Apple and Meta's regulatory woes in the EU are almost over

CoreWeave is working to expand its business with tools targeting software developers, while adding capacity to accommodate business from Meta and OpenAI.

Amazon trimmed its management ranks throughout the year and cut positions at its cloud-computing division in July. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has complained about managers managing managers since 2023

Consumer spending makes up two-thirds of GDP. Tech giants including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Nvidia poured tens of billions of dollars into building and upgrading data centers

Donaldson's concerns come on the heels of OpenAI's release of a Sora social media platform able to AI generated short-form videos, including of individuals who "upload" themselves onto the app. Meta launched its similar video-generating Vibes platform last month

Bluesky's feature is one of its better additions to the microblogging format, so it makes sense Mastodon would want to adopt it. In fact it's so good that Meta added a clone of it to Threads late last year