Last October, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned almost in passing that companies kept asking Meta if they could buy computing capacity from it, at a premium. It sounded like a hypothetical. On July 17, the New York Times turned it into a very real story. Meta and Anthropic are in early talks for a ...
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By Daniel Wiessner July 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a bid by 26 employees of Meta Platforms to block the tech giant from laying them off while they pursue claims that they were
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has been hit with a federal lawsuit filed by employees over AI-assisted layoffs. The suit alleges that Meta's use of AI in personnel decisions discriminated against protected groups, including workers with disabilities and pregnant employees. Plaintiffs are seeking to halt further layoffs and are calling for an independent audit of Meta's AI systems used in workforce management. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other...
Investing.com -- Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) shares fell 2.3% Thursday afternoon following a Bloomberg report that the company’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model.
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Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion dollar company.According to the lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California on Monday Meta used AI systems to "score, rank, and select employees" to be laid off rather than "the considered judgement of managers who knew the work" while disproportionately targeting those on medical or family leave.
A lawsuit alleged the company relied on AI that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who were on medical or parental leave.
There’s no sugarcoating it; getting laid off is awful. But if you've been following the news, it feels like tech workers are being laid off left and right. Here’s what one Reddit user, who was recently laid off from an account executive role at a tech company, had to say on the r/Layoffs subreddit: ...
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
Plaintiffs allege Meta's AI-assisted evaluation process was discriminatory.
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According to a report by The Information, the company is said to be specifically looking at "neocloud" providers to increase the adoption of its custom TPUs, including Nvidia-backed Nscale.
Meta's stock is down more than 7% year to date. The company spent much of this year defending its decision to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, and investors who followed the Q1 earnings call on April 29 watched the stock drop another 6% to 7% after the company raised its ...
Investing.com -- The European Union issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of using addictive design features and disregarding risks to children on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.
Investing.com -- Meta Platforms’ specialized AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, announced Thursday the release of Muse Spark 1.1. The updated multimodal reasoning model is specifically engineered to handle autonomous "agentic" workflows, boasting a massive one-million-token context window alongside major upgrades to coding and direct computer control. The release marks a significant push by Meta to lead the enterprise AI market. Alongside the consumer-facing rollout, the company launched
If you have ever caught yourself doom scrolling on Instagram or Facebook for hours on end and felt bad, don't; the technology is working exactly how it was intended to. Everything from the length and style of the Reels to the algorithms' encyclopedic knowledge of your likes and dislikes is designed ...
Time was, the future looked so bright for Meta Platforms that founder Mark Zuckerberg had to wear shades—AI-powered smart glasses, that is. In Zuckerberg’s words, 2023 wasn’t just Meta’s “year of efficiency” — it was actually the company’s best year ever. Shares surged 178% as the digital ...

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Four US states seek $1.4 trillion from Meta over teen addiction claims. See why Meta stock barely moved on the news.

Micron hits an interesting level on the charts.
U.S. stock futures were lower as AI-related stocks fell across the globe ahead of Thursday’s crucial jobs data.
By Caroline Valetkevitch and Niket Nishant July 1 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks finished slightly lower on Wednesday with falling technology shares, but gains in Meta Platforms provided some support along
Meta Platforms is building a cloud business to sell excess AI computing capacity, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter. The move could reduce Meta's reliance on advertising revenue and help it take on major cloud companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
July 1 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms is building a cloud business to sell excess AI computing capacity, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.
Meta has hired the founding team of security startup Virtue AI to protect its upcoming autonomous software agents amid growing federal oversight.