Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

"Here, people say, 'I want the fewest number of people reporting to me and the most GPUs,'" Mark Zuckerberg said about the AI talent war.

Meta plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars building massive AI data centers across the U.S., according to the BBC. In a post on Threads, Zuckerberg announced that Meta is building several massive AI data centers,

Meta said it planned to spend $60–65 billion in AI-related capital expenditures this year — up from $35–40 billion in 2024.

It’s easy to scoff at AI and ask, “Who is actually asking for this?” You might also think that smart glasses “aren’t worth it yet.” But to the blind and low-vision community, the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and their AI features have been an absolute life-altering game-changer. And we need to talk about it.

Raytheon UK’s CTO, training transformation services, anticipates metacognition will create safer training data.

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the “entire PlayAI team” will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.)

META's stock soars 50% since April, driven by resilient ad growth, AI advancements, and new revenue channels like Threads.