Facebook defends $725 million privacy settlement in US appeals court
Facebook owner Meta Platforms on Friday urged a U.S. appeals court to uphold a $725 million nationwide class action ...
Amazon Removes Diversity References From Annual Report—Here Are All The Companies Rolling Back DEI
Following Trump's lead, organizations including Walmart, Lowe’s and Meta have announced they would scale back their ...
Amtrak Cuts Diversity Programs—Here Are All The Companies Rolling Back DEI
Following Trump's lead, organizations including Walmart, Lowe’s and Meta have announced they would scale back their ...
Amazon Intends to Spend Over $100 Billion on AI This Year. Here's How It Compares to Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
Amazon's forecasted spending in 2025 is 35% higher than 2024 and well above the $86 billion analysts expected.
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The Download: DOGE’s tech-enabled destruction, and Meta’s brain AI for typing
In trying to make sense of the wrecking ball that is Elon Musk and President Trump’s DOGE, it may be helpful to think about ...
Zuckerberg visits White House to discuss advancing ‘American tech leadership abroad’: Meta
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited the White House on Thursday to discuss Meta’s role in helping the Trump administration with ...
Meta and UNESCO team up to improve translation AI
Meta has partnered with UNESCO on a new plan to improve translation and speech recognition AI, Techcrunch reported. As part ...
Leaked Meta memo teases 'half a dozen' new AI wearables, a mixed-reality push, and the return of the metaverse
Following Mark Zuckerberg's comments about 2025 being a “defining year” for Meta's smart-glasses plans, a leaked internal ...
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Here’s Where Each Big Tech Company Stands on DEI Efforts in 2025
The shift comes as Big Tech cozies up to the Trump Administration, which has introduced several executive orders aimed at ...
Meta FAIR: Recognizing language in the brain thanks to AI
Meta recognizes entire sentences from brain activity. Instead of AGI, the FAIR team is striving for AMI – Advanced Machine ...
Media Giants Settling With Donald Trump Are Setting a “Dangerous” Precedent
Disney and Meta have already shelled out $40 million to the president since Election Day, with Paramount in talks to settle ...
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Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab
Still, it’s pretty cool that neuroscience and AI researchers working for Meta have managed to analyze people’s brains as they type and determine what keys they are pressing, j ...