Do Son Google and Meta have signed a six-year, $10B cloud deal focused on AI infrastructure. The partnership highlights a new era of "coopetition" among tech rivals.
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Meta has partnered with Midjourney, gaining access to their advanced AI image and video generation tech to enhance its own creative offerings and compete with rivals.
Meta and Stanford unveiled a 3mm-thick holographic VR headset prototype, using laser projection to eliminate bulky optics and bringing VR glasses closer to consumer reality.
Meta is reportedly in talks to acquire AI video startup Pika Labs, a move that would accelerate its push into generative AI and short-form video creation for its platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg asserts AI-powered smart glasses will be the dominant interface, claiming those without them will face a "cognitive disadvantage," despite Reality Labs' ongoing losses.
Google confirms it will sign the EU's Code of Practice for General Purpose AI, aligning with the EU AI Act, contrasting Meta's refusal due to "excessive interference."
Meta will cease all political, electoral, and issue-based advertising in the EU from October 2025, citing "unworkable complexity" of the new Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) regulation.
Meta refuses to sign the EU's new Code of Practice for General Purpose AI, with Joel Kaplan arguing it's "excessive interference" that could stifle innovation and create legal uncertainty.
Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta executives have settled an $8 billion shareholder lawsuit linked to repeated privacy violations from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Meta's multi-billion dollar investment in gigawatt-scale AI data centers is raising alarms over massive water consumption and escalating community tensions.
Meta has finalized its acquisition of voice AI startup PlayAI, integrating its team to enhance Meta AI, virtual characters, and voice tech for smart glasses, boosting its "AI Superintelligence" initiative.
Meta states it won't make further changes to its "pay-or-consent" model, despite a €200M fine and EU warnings of daily penalties up to 5% of global revenue for DMA non-compliance.
Meta is testing "Project Omni," enabling its AI chatbots to proactively initiate conversations based on user interactions, aiming to deepen engagement and boost generative AI revenues.
Cloudflare launched an AI Crawler Leaderboard ranking AI company web crawlers. ByteDance is last for ignoring robots.txt and lack of IP transparency, prompting new blocking defaults.
Meta is reportedly in talks to acquire PlayAI, a voice-generation AI startup, to strengthen its AI voice tech and multimodal capabilities, following its Scale AI investment and superintelligence push.
A hacker is allegedly selling 16 billion login credentials, likely aggregated from past breaches via info-stealing malware, impacting major tech platforms. Use MFA to stay safe!
Meta introduces Passkey support for Facebook and Messenger on iOS/Android, enabling secure, passwordless logins via biometrics or PINs, enhancing user convenience and security.
Meta invested $14.3B in Scale AI, recruiting founder Alexandr Wang to lead its Superintelligence Lab, aiming to accelerate AGI development.
Meta partners with XGS Energy to develop a 150MW next-gen geothermal system in New Mexico, powering AI data centers with carbon-free energy.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 enhances smart glasses with on-device AI, enabling smaller designs, dual-eye displays, and seamless voice interactions.
Mark Zuckerberg is personally recruiting top AI talent with multi-million dollar offers, investing billions to develop superintelligent AI at Meta.
Researchers found Meta and Yandex secretly tracked Android users via localhost, linking web activity to app IDs, even in Incognito. This widespread abuse bypassed privacy controls.