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Meta launches AI voice translation on Facebook, Instagram
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Meta budgets $72bn in AI investment as part of long-term growth

Meta is dramatically increasing its investment in AI infrastructure, announcing plans to spend up to $72 billion on data centers, servers, and related technologies in 2025. The company disclosed the move in its second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, signaling a $30 billion year-over-year jump in capital expenditures at the midpoint of its projected range. Meta […]

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Meta probed for ‘forcing’ AI chatbot on Italian WhatsApp users

Italy’s antitrust authority announced on Wednesday that it has opened an investigation into Meta Platforms over allegations of abusing its market dominance by integrating its artificial intelligence assistant into WhatsApp. The regulator said Meta may have breached European Union competition laws by deploying the Meta AI tool on WhatsApp without obtaining user consent—a move that […]

Meta appoints ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of superintelligence lab
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Meta appoints ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of superintelligence lab

Meta has appointed the co-creator of ChatGPT and former research scientist at OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, as Chief Scientist of its newly established Superintelligence Lab, as part of its aggressive push into cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement Friday via Threads, revealing that Zhao will define the research agenda and scientific direction […]

EU rules out fee for tech giants under digital markets act
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EU rules out fee for tech giants under digital markets act

The European Commission will not require tech giants such as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft to pay for the cost of monitoring their compliance with the Digital Markets Act, despite growing calls from lawmakers and regulators. Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for Digital Affairs, confirmed in an interview with Reuters […]

US senators demand Meta probe over chatbot child safety concerns
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Meta apologises after translation error falsely declared Indian minister dead

Meta has issued an apology after a translation error on Facebook falsely implied that India’s Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had died. The mistake occurred on Tuesday when Siddaramaiah’s official Facebook page posted a tribute to veteran Kannada actress B Saroja Devi. Meta’s automatic Kannada-to-English translation system rendered the post as saying, “Chief Minister Siddaramaiah passed away […]

Meta plans full AI-driven Ad creation by 2026 - Report
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Meta refuses to sign EU’s voluntary AI code

Meta, the United States and social media giant, will not be signing the European Union’s Code of Practice on General Purpose AI. This was disclosed in a statement on Friday by the company’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan. “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI. We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s […]

Meta plans fourth AI overhaul in six months
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Meta deletes 10m fake profiles, tightens content rules

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has intensified its campaign against fake activity and unoriginal content, announcing the removal of over 10 million fake profiles and 500,000 spam accounts in the first half of 2025. In a blog post on Monday, the tech giant said the move is part of a broader crackdown […]

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Meta to build world’s largest AI data centres

Tech giant Meta has unveiled ambitious plans to construct some of the largest artificial intelligence data centres on the planet, pledging to invest hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years. In a post on Threads, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will establish several multi-gigawatt AI hubs across the […]

US senators demand Meta probe over chatbot child safety concerns
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Apple loses top AI chief to Meta amid talent war

Apple’s top executive overseeing artificial intelligence models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the tech giant to join rival Meta Platforms, according to a report by Bloomberg News on Monday. Pang, who led Apple’s foundation models team, is set to take a key role in Meta’s recently launched Superintelligence Labs division. The move reportedly comes with a […]

Meta plans fourth AI overhaul in six months
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Meta launches ‘Superintelligence labs’ in AI overhaul

Meta has restructured its artificial intelligence operations under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, in a bold effort to accelerate its pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Reuters reported on Monday. The new unit will be led by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI, who now takes on the role of Chief AI Officer […]

Meta plans fourth AI overhaul in six months
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Meta, Invenergy sign renewable energy deal for AI data centers

Meta Platforms and renewable energy developer Invenergy have signed four new agreements to supply an additional 791 megawatts of wind and solar power for Meta’s growing network of data centers, the companies announced on Thursday. The new agreements are the latest in Meta’s ongoing strategy to meet the soaring electricity demand of its artificial intelligence […]