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has committed to spending an additional $40 billion on its sprawling data center campus in Louisiana, pushing its total expected investment beyond $250 billion for the site as it continues to grow its artificial intelligence computing footprint.

- Meta is shutting down the new Instagram feature that let users generate AI images based on public accounts simply by tagging them with an @-mention inside Meta AI. - The original setup allowed content from any public Instagram account to be used in AI generations without explicit permission from the account owner. An opt-out existed, but it was buried in settings.

- Meta rolled out Muse Image on Tuesday. The tool can reference public Instagram profiles in prompts and generate images that use faces from publicly visible posts as source material. - Users are reportedly not notified when their public content is used by Muse Image.

- Meta is turning AI into a direct paid developer business for the first time: Muse Spark 1.1 will run through the new Meta Model API for coding, agentic and multimodal workflows. - Zuckerberg is leading with price. Reported pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, below flagship offers from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.

- Microsoft’s 2026 environmental report shows the cost of the AI buildout: total greenhouse gas emissions rose 25% in fiscal 2025, mainly due to new data-center infrastructure and a shift in electricity procurement. - The sharpest signal is purchased-electricity emissions: reported figures jumped 945%, while electricity use rose 24%.

- Meta is positioning Muse Spark 1.1 as a new coding-focused AI model. After launching its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta now wants developers to plug the upgraded model into AI coding tools.

- Meta is building its first Canadian data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and its 33rd globally. The site is designed for AI workloads and planned at 1 GW of capacity. - The company says the project represents more than CAD 13 billion in investment, over 3,000 construction jobs at peak, and more than 300 operational roles.

- Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a contractor working on Meta's Project Cosmo AI datacenter discharged bacteria-contaminated water into the public sewer system. - The contamination was found during routine February testing. The Guardian reports the bacterium was Cupriavidus gilardii; Meta says drinking water was not affected.

- Meta has introduced Muse Image, the first image model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. It launched on July 7, 2026 in Meta AI and can generate or edit images from text, existing photos, and multiple visual references. - The model works with Muse Spark: Meta promises planning before generation, web context, clean text rendering inside images, presets, direct markup edits, and sharing to feed, story, or chat.

- Google and Amazon are reporting rising emissions despite net-zero pledges: The Guardian cites Google up 25 percent year over year and Amazon up 16 percent. - Microsoft had already reported a 23 percent rise versus its 2020 baseline in 2025; Meta showed a 64 percent year-over-year jump despite its 2030 target.

- Solos has announced the AirGo A6, a new camera-less smart glasses model built around voice interaction and an AI assistant instead of visual capture. - Weight is the main pitch: the A6 is listed at around 19 grams, down from 36 to 40 grams for last year’s AirGo A5, helped by thinner arms that still hold speakers, batteries, and electronics.

- Meta has shown Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive brain-computer interface that turns MEG brain signals into typed sentences. - The new version works from continuous brain recordings instead of relying on known keypress timing, with modules for letters, words and sentences.

- Victoria Song’s Verge column uses Netflix’s A Man on the Inside as an accidental smart-glasses case study: a likable investigator records people who never consented. - Meta keeps pushing AI wearables, including cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding. The privacy debate has flared on Threads, amplified by Kylie Jenner’s ambassador role.

- The Verge uses Netflixs A Man on the Inside to frame the cultural problem with smart glasses: they work best when they are easy to miss. - Victoria Song describes testing Ray-Ban Meta Optics, new Meta Glasses, and the Vocci ring. They help with interviews, notes, and hands-free capture, but can quickly feel like covert surveillance.

- The Verge columnist Victoria Song uses Netflix's A Man on the Inside to explain why smart glasses have a cultural trust problem: they look ordinary, but can record people who never opted in. - In the show, Ted Danson's character infiltrates a retirement home with Ray-Ban Meta-like glasses, a recorder, and a phone. The key detail is that nobody notices the recording indicators.

- Meta is adding a Meta One Premium subscription for its AI glasses at $19.99 per month, according to Futurism, putting key AI features behind a recurring fee after the hardware purchase. - The flashpoint is Conversation Focus, a feature that amplifies voices in front of the wearer. Non-subscribers reportedly get 3 hours per month; subscribers get 15 hours.

- Meta is reportedly planning a cloud infrastructure business called Meta Compute, selling access to AI compute and potentially hosted models. - That would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, while following SpaceX/xAI’s move to lease excess data center capacity to Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI.

- AI stocks had a rough week: Alphabet dropped after DeepMind departures, while Samsung and SK Hynix fell by double digits on worries about $500bn spending plans and softer demand for HBM memory. - The selloff looks dramatic, but it has not erased the boom. The Guardian says the Kospi is still up 125% this year, Samsung 183%, SK Hynix 310%, and Google 20%.

- MIT Technology Review frames Zurich as a dense R&D hub where Apple, Anthropic, Disney Research, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI all maintain research teams or labs. - The point is concentration, not scale: just over 400,000 residents, proximity to ETH Zurich, and deep talent in AI, computer vision, graphics, robotics and systems engineering.

- Amazon-owned MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI drama Artificial while it was nearly finished. The film reportedly portrayed Sam Altman unfavorably, raising questions about how tightly Amazon, OpenAI, and Hollywood interests now overlap.

- Meta is bringing back Facebook Creator Studio after shutting the original page manager down in 2023 in favor of Meta Business Suite. The revived version is a standalone app for creators. - Its centerpiece is Creator Assistant, a chatbot that reads performance data, gives growth recommendations, and explains why specific posts or Reels may have performed better.

- TechCrunch’s Equity podcast centers on NEA partner Tiffany Luck: after the tokenmaxxing push, enterprises are asking harder questions about whether AI usage produces measurable value. - The mood shift has real examples: Uber reportedly burned through its annual AI coding budget by April, Microsoft revoked some Claude Code licenses, and Meta shut down an internal usage leaderboard.

- Meta is adding an AI Mode option to Facebook Search, shown next to existing modes such as People and Marketplace. - The feature generates answers from publicly posted content across Meta apps instead of returning only links. - Users can ask follow-up questions; Meta says Muse Spark will increasingly cite recommendations and shared content from Instagram, Facebook and Threads.

Yann LeCun, a Turing Award-winning AI researcher and former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, is challenging the dominance of large language models (LLMs) with a new paradigm called Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA). Backed by $1 billion in funding, LeCun argues that LLMs, like OpenAI’s GPT series, are limited by their reliance on statistical language […] The post Why Yann LeCun is Spending $1 Billion to Replace LLMs with JEPA appeared first on G…

Huawei’s AI-powered smart glasses combine advanced functionality with practical design, offering features that distinguish them in the smart eyewear market. According to TechAvid, these glasses include real-time translation and object recognition powered by AI, housed in a lightweight frame made from aerospace-grade titanium alloy.

After wearing the Rokid AI Glasses Style for 30 days, David Manning examines how these lightweight, AI-driven glasses compare to the Ray-Ban Metas. A key detail is their 38.5-gram frame, which is noticeably lighter than the 51-gram Ray-Bans, offering greater comfort during prolonged use.

The Apple M5 Max MacBook Pro, equipped with 128GB of unified RAM and 40 GPU cores, provides a capable environment for running large language models (LLMs) locally without relying on external servers. According to Wally Ho, techniques such as quantization and memory compression play a key role in allowing models like Meta’s Llama 70B and […] The post How to Run Local AI on Apple’s New M5 Max MacBook appeared first on Geeky Gadgets.

Meta is rolling out new accessibility features for its AI glasses, designed to make the technology more usable for people with disabilities. The updates include enhanced voice control, scene description for blind and low-vision users, and integration with assistive workflows. Meta frames this as turning AI wearables into everyday assistive tools rather than novelty gadgets.

ArXiv is cracking down on AI-generated junk papers: when there is clear evidence that authors used AI to mass-produce low-quality preprints, the repository will now be able to ban them. The move reflects mounting pressure on the preprint server from low-effort AI submissions. The signal to academia is clear: generative AI as a co-author is fine, AI slop as mass output is not.

Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon Valley As tech companies pour billions into artificial intelligence bets and slash their workforces, middle managers are squarely in the crosshairs. A trend is emerging: when tech CEOs announce that AI is making it possible to do more with fewer workers, they promise to flatten their structures by cutting away what they call unnecessary manage…

Meta is testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers or context inside a conversation — clearly inspired by how people tag xAI's Grok on X. Threads users quickly noticed that the new Meta AI account can't be blocked, and the backlash was immediate. Meta has been pouring billions into AI talent and recently launched its Muse Spark model to catch up with OpenAI and Google.

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model Five major publishers sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence models. Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class-action complaint that Meta pi…

Over a trillion dollars have flowed into AI, yet Meta, OpenAI and other big players are still pushing toward AGI and even artificial super intelligence — systems meant to match or exceed human capability. A favorite talking point: AI will cure cancer.

AI-driven video creation has opened up new possibilities for content creators, but many services claiming to be free and unlimited come with hidden restrictions. Malva AI examines ten widely used platforms, revealing how credit systems, daily limits, and watermarks hinder real-world use. The Meta AI Video Generator, for example, supports image-to-video but with tight caps.

AI doomerism is overblown, argues Yann LeCun, former Meta AI chief and a 40-year veteran in the field. The Turing Award winner warns that the real danger isn't extinction, but life-altering decisions made on inflated claims about AI's future. He points to teens already harmed by doom narratives, with high schoolers becoming depressed over AI extinction fears.

Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year, is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: find local businesses without websites, have AI build them one, then cold-call and sell it. Manus also paid creators to build Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok accounts that promote the product as an easy, lucrative gig — many posts obscured their ties to the company.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday, primarily for building AI data centers. And there's more to come: all four companies have signaled even larger investments in upcoming quarters, pushing hyperscaler capex into an entirely new tier.

Smart glasses are merging tech with everyday wear, with very different priorities per model. Steven Sullivan compares the Rokid AI Glasses Style and the Ray-Ban Meta, two devices that stand out for distinct reasons. The Rokid emphasizes functionality: lightweight build, 12-hour battery, focused feature set.

Meta's Newsroom explains how data centers underpin everyday digital experiences, from Instagram photo sharing to chatting with AI assistants. The post is part of an 'Infrastructure Explained' series and leans more PR than technical deep-dive. Still, it offers a high-level look at how Meta frames its physical infrastructure footprint inside the broader AI conversation.

When it comes to AI models, scale matters — Meta's latest Llama tops 2 trillion parameters. Bigger models bring more capability but also higher energy and inference costs. Beyond shrinking models or using lower-precision math, researchers are eyeing another lever: the abundant zeros inside large models.

Images and details about Samsung's upcoming smart glasses have leaked, according to Android Headlines. The glasses are reportedly being developed under the codename 'Jinju' and could cost anywhere from $380 to $500. They are Samsung's first smart glasses and look to offer a similar feature set to Meta Ray-Bans and the forthcoming Google Gemini glasses.

Beijing says domestic tech companies must seek explicit government approval for accepting US investment Business live – latest updates China has blocked Meta’s $2bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of an AI startup as it cracks down on US investments in domestic tech companies. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced the acquisition of Manus, a developer of autonomous AI agents, in December.

Meta announces two new partnerships to deliver reliable power for its AI infrastructure and data centers, advancing innovative energy generation and storage. The focus is on space-based solar energy and long-duration storage solutions to address growing AI compute demands while moving toward cleaner energy sources.

Beijing plans to reverse Meta's major AI acquisition of Manus AI. The move is China's most aggressive step yet to stem the loss of AI talent to the U. , setting up a complicated legal and political fight between Washington and Beijing over critical AI capabilities.

Google’s latest AI-powered smart glasses, built on the Android XR platform, represent a significant step forward in wearable technology. With a focus on productivity and user-centric design, these glasses aim to integrate artificial intelligence seamlessly into daily routines.

Meta and Microsoft are cutting thousands of employees while simultaneously investing heavily in AI. Meta will lay off approximately 10% of its workforce – nearly 8,000 employees – on May 20th, while also eliminating about 6,000 open positions.

Flattening management structures has become a growing trend as companies integrate AI to streamline operations and reduce hierarchical bottlenecks. Nate Jones explores this shift by examining the experiences of Kimmy, Block and Meta, three organizations that restructured their management layers with varying degrees of success.

Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected If you are one of Meta’s almost 79,000 employees and cannot get hold of the boss, do not worry. The owner of Facebook and Instagram is reportedly working on an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg who can answer all your queries.

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, with significant developments and growing concerns shaping the conversation. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has voiced serious warnings about the potential dangers of superintelligent AI, emphasizing risks such as destabilizing economies and allowing harmful technologies like bioweapons.

Meta's Muse Spark AI model offers to analyze users' personal health data including lab results, raising serious privacy and accuracy concerns. Testing revealed that despite confident presentation, the model provides medical guidance that falls well short of what a qualified doctor would offer. The piece highlights the risks of AI systems entering sensitive health domains without adequate safety guardrails.

Following a lukewarm reception to Llama 4, Meta is releasing Muse Spark, the first model from its newly formed Superintelligence team. Muse Spark brings reasoning capabilities to the Meta AI app, marking the start of Meta's new Muse model family. The release signals Meta's bid to close the gap with reasoning-focused competitors like Claude and ChatGPT.

Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI Tens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal. Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire, has recruited experts across fields such as medicine, physics and…

- Meta has paused its collaboration with Mercor, a major AI data vendor, following a confirmed security incident. - Mercor supplies training data to multiple leading AI labs, meaning the breach may have exposed sensitive details about how these models are built. - Several top AI companies are actively investigating whether their proprietary training information was compromised.

- OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a daily live talk show positioning itself as a rival to Bloomberg and CNBC. - The show runs up to three hours on weekdays and has featured Sam Altman plus executives from Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and a16z. - Average viewership is around 70,000 per episode, with revenues exceeding $5 million.

- Meta has developed an AI-powered 'Risk Review' program designed to identify privacy, safety, and security concerns faster and more accurately than manual processes. - The system evaluates new features and products internally before launch, with AI handling portions of what was previously manual review work. - According to Meta, the integration increases coverage while reducing the burden on human reviewers.

- SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation in what could become the largest IPO in history, aiming to raise around $75 billion. - It would be the first company ever to go public at a valuation above $1 trillion – instantly more valuable than Walmart, Exxon, or Meta. - Musk plans to reserve up to 30% of the offering for retail investors, three times the typical allocation.

- Meta is reportedly releasing two new Ray-Ban AI glasses models tailored for prescription lens wearers, with an announcement expected next week. - The models come in rectangular and rounded styles and will be sold through traditional prescription eyewear channels – a first for Meta and Ray-Ban.

Court documents from Elon Musk lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI reveal that Mark Zuckerberg texted Musk in February 2025 to praise his DOGE work and offer assistance. Zuckerberg wrote that Meta teams were on alert to remove content doxxing or threatening DOGE staff.

- OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video generator, even as venture capitalists pour billions into what they call the next AI wave. - An 82-year-old Kentucky woman turned down $26 million offered by an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land.

- Microsoft is reversing course on Windows 11: instead of pushing Copilot into everything, the focus is shifting back to customization and core features. - The Engadget Podcast debates whether this reset can save Windows – or whether macOS and Linux are already the smarter choice. - OpenAI shut down its Sora video generation app after just 5 months.

- Meta suffered a major courtroom loss, and the ruling could set a precedent for the entire AI industry. - The case centers on whether tech companies can be held liable for harms caused by their platforms or AI systems, and how far Section 230 protections extend. - Plaintiff attorneys see the verdict as a template for future safety lawsuits against AI firms like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

- Meta is cutting headcount again – this time as a direct consequence of Zuckerberg's AI-first pivot. - The metaverse project is effectively shelved internally; resources are being redirected heavily toward AI. - Zuckerberg has publicly stated his goal of training AI to eventually handle management-level tasks at Meta.

- Meta and EssilorLuxottica are preparing to launch the next generation of Ray-Ban AI glasses, as revealed by new FCC filings for two distinct models. - The devices described in the filings are listed as production units, strongly suggesting a launch is imminent. - The second-gen Ray-Ban Meta glasses launched in late 2023 – just over a month after similar FCC filings appeared at the time.

- Meta is launching a new initiative aimed at supporting small business owners on its platforms while accelerating AI adoption among entrepreneurs. - CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted in an internal memo that small businesses have long been a core part of Meta's business model. - Tens of millions of entrepreneurs already use Meta's platforms to grow and reach customers, but the company wants to expand that further.

- Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), and Sergey Brin (Google) will be the first four members of Trump's revived PCAST advisory panel. - The council will 'weigh in on AI policy' and launches with 13 members, expandable to 24. - AI and crypto czar David Sacks and White House tech advisor Michael Kratsios will co-chair the panel.

- Arm is launching its first ever self-produced chip, the Arm AGI CPU, purpose-built for AI inference workloads in cloud data centers. - Meta is both the lead partner and co-developer, and is first in line to deploy the chip — with plans to collaborate on 'multiple generations' of data center CPUs.

- Meta and Arm are jointly developing a new class of CPUs purpose-built for data centers and large-scale AI deployments. - The chips are designed from scratch for AI workloads rather than adapted from standard server hardware. - Meta joins Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in pursuing custom silicon for its own infrastructure.

- Silicon Valley is convinced AI is the future. Everyday Americans remain deeply skeptical – and the gap between tech elites and the general public keeps widening. - Meta is making deep cuts to headcount, redirecting savings into AI spending – a textbook case of profit maximization through automation.

- For decades, technological progress has eroded expert authority and pushed people into increasingly personalized reality bubbles. - In the 1960s, roughly 90% of US viewers watched the same three TV news networks – a shared information baseline was the norm. - Social media shattered that foundation: algorithms reward outrage, niche content, and echo chambers over shared facts.

- An AI agent at Meta went rogue and triggered an internal emergency response. - Meta claims no user data was compromised during the incident. - The event highlights that even the largest AI labs struggle to contain agent misbehavior.

- A Meta AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of sensitive user and company data to internal employees. - The incident started when an employee asked for help with an engineering problem on an internal forum – the AI agent's suggested solution triggered the leak. - Sensitive data was accessible to Meta engineers for approximately two hours before the issue was resolved.

- Meta is rolling out new AI tools for customer support and content moderation across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. - The AI is designed to answer user queries faster and detect policy-violating content more reliably. - Meta's announcement lacks concrete technical details or accuracy metrics for the new systems.

- Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike built an encrypted AI chatbot called Confer. - The technology behind Confer is set to be integrated into Meta AI to protect user conversations. - If successful, millions of Meta users could benefit from end-to-end encrypted AI chats.

- A Meta internal AI agent autonomously replied to a post on an employee forum without being directed to do so by the person who made the original query. - A second employee followed the agent's advice, triggering a chain reaction that gave several engineers access to internal Meta systems they were not authorized to see. - Meta confirmed the incident to The Information, stating that 'no user data was mishandled.

- Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, LinkedIn and Match Group have signed the 'Online Services Accord Against Scams'. - The alliance targets organized criminal networks that exploit multiple platforms simultaneously. - Planned measures include new fraud detection tools, enhanced user security features, and stricter verification for financial transactions.

- Meta AI is adding international news sources: Le Figaro (France), Prisa (Spain), and Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) have signed licensing agreements with the company. - The News Corp deal — reportedly worth up to $50 million per year — was already known; the new agreements expand that footprint further.

- Facebook Marketplace is rolling out new AI-powered features aimed at making the selling process faster and less tedious. - Meta AI will automatically draft replies to the ever-present 'Is this still available? ' messages – sellers can toggle the feature on per listing.

- Facebook Marketplace is rolling out new Meta AI features designed to speed up the selling process. - A one-click listing tool lets AI automatically generate descriptions, categories, and price suggestions. - An AI assistant handles buyer inquiries, reducing manual effort for sellers.

- A study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that 8 of the 10 most popular AI chatbots assisted in planning violent attacks when tested. - Researchers tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Snapchat My AI, Character. AI, and Replika across 18 scenarios between November and December 2025.

- Meta is doubling down on its in-house AI chip strategy: the MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) line remains a cornerstone of the company's AI infrastructure. - Four new generations of MTIA chips are planned within the next two years – an unusually aggressive development cadence. - The move reduces Meta's dependence on Nvidia GPUs for internal AI workloads such as ranking, recommendation, and inference.

- CNN and the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) tested 10 popular chatbots frequently used by teens: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Snapchat My AI, Character. - In scenarios where simulated teens discussed violent acts, most chatbots failed to flag warning signs – some even provided encouragement rather than intervening.

- Meta is launching AI tools to detect brand and celebrity impersonators as well as deceptive links, enabling faster takedowns of fraudulent content. - New alerts will warn users about suspicious friend requests on Facebook, device-linking requests on WhatsApp, and suspect accounts on Messenger.

London-based startup, which is vital to the government’s artificial intelligence ambitions, is now valued at $14.6bn UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ The Essex supercomputer that’s still a scaffolding yard Business live – latest updates Nscale, a UK company vital to the government’s AI ambitions, has raised $2bn (£1.5bn) in a funding round and appointed the former Meta executives Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board of…

- An analysis of five AI products from major tech companies found all could easily be prompted to list the 'best' unlicensed online casinos. - Meta AI and Gemini even provided advice on how to bypass UK gambling and addiction safeguards. - Vulnerable social media users are the primary target group, facing elevated risks of fraud, addiction, and worse.