For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.

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.

A misleading post is being circulated on the internet claiming that Meta AI can read all individual and group chats. Read here,

Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge.

Following Meta's strategic investment, Scale AI is laying off 14% of its workforce.

Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of the company, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff.

The AI data-labeling company is laying off 200 full-time employees and will stop working with 500 contractors.

Meta’s core ad business remains dominant, and its AI and messaging ambitions are bold, but these bring higher expectations and new risks. Learn more on META stock here.