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The RealReal has changed its bot defenses to make it harder for AI agents to log in, add items to carts and check out, chief technology officer Luke Friang told The Verge. The retailer acted after the outlet demonstrated that Meta's Muse could repeatedly reserve products, preventing other shoppers f…
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October 2026 99 events
- Meta launches stock and convertible preferred offerings worth about $35 billion
- Instagram expands longform widescreen video test to the US
- Meta opens AI network transport software and submits switch platform specification
- Nevis raises $70M with Schwab joining wealth software investors
- Meta plans $95B stock financing for AI expansion
- AgentTrace preprint reports 96.0% accuracy in identifying agent models
- Ticket-trained model improves computing support answers, but agent orchestration falls short
- Preprint reports accuracy gains from new language model compression methods
- Court orders Meta not to interfere in Brazil's runoff
- Instagram brings Reels, longer videos and live shows to Apple TV
- Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers uncover discoverable private conversations
- IBM reports faster runtime model monitoring and steering with vLLM plugin
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- Meta directs 39% of October advertising spend to Muse as US downloads reach 10.2 million
- Figma adds 20 partners for AI access through MCP
- RBC chief considers blocking Meta's Muse from customer information
- Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find exposed business and personal data
- Google open-sources TorchTPU for native PyTorch workloads on TPUs
- WhatsApp removes exposed instructions governing its support chatbot
- Meta details Prometheus training capacity across hundreds of thousands of GPUs
- Preprint reports gains from separating AI agent skills by function
- Researchers find WhatsApp chatbot instructions against recommending privacy regulators
- Industry-funded study puts EU cloud sovereignty exposure at €115bn
- Meta removes disputed AI training language from commercial terms
- Banks and travel services restrict access by AI agents
- Meta cuts midterms budget by $25M through refunds
- WhatsApp impersonator exceeds 500,000 downloads on Google Play
- Schwab blocks outside AI agents from moving client money
- Poland secures platform response commitments after school attacks
- AWS Notify adds managed passcode generation and verification
- Preprint reports more accurate four-bit inference using shift-and-add arithmetic
- Preprint reports training method that preserves correctness while shortening responses
- Preprint reports 97% accuracy classifying software supply chain threats
- Preprint reports transferable gains from AI honesty training
- OpenAI cuts ChatGPT ad rates and pursues smaller advertisers
- DOJ leaders reportedly halt Meta drug-sales investigation
- Nvidia offers Muse Spark Open weights and NIM deployment container
- AWS adds Muse Spark Open deployment through SageMaker JumpStart
- Meta says Apple collaboration enables local Muse Spark Open use on Mac Studios
- Meta releases Muse Spark Open with a 1M-token context window
- Meta opens an AI model for developers to download and modify
- Researchers find Meta's Muse builds hourly profiles of users' contacts
- Meta says it resolved unprompted audio recording on Ray-Ban glasses
- Together AI adds Muse Spark Open API access with 1M-token context
- Vercel adds Muse Spark Open to AI Gateway
- Workplace messenger Zenzap raises $44M
- Senate Democrats question Meta over tax breaks for data centers
- WhatsApp opens encrypted calls to guests without accounts
- Microsoft disputes reported request for at least 20% Azure cost cuts
- Researchers find faster removal of safeguards from open-weight AI models
- Shopify expands shopping access to agents without partner integrations
- OpenAI and Anthropic back binding AI safety rules at UK hearing
- Meta says hackers stole code and personal data through GitHub repositories
- Meta brings topic controls and conversational ranking to Facebook
- Meta releases Muse Wonder through its API and coding tool
- NVIDIA contributes Vera Rubin rack designs to open infrastructure standards
- Preprint compresses language-model weights into 16-64 shared values
- CoCoEvolve preprint reports gains in AI data workflow benchmarks
- Vercel adds Meta's Muse Wonder to AI Gateway
- TikTok and Kick say planned execution livestream would violate their policies
- CleanSpark says $2.276 billion debt closing funds Sandersville completion
- Meta bars ads directing users to ByteDance apps in seven countries
- Meta leaders knew of Muse safety concerns before launch, account alleges
- Senate investigation challenges data center cost-sharing practices
- Meta tests video-first opening screens on Facebook and Instagram
- UK data regulator secures changes from ten AI developers
- Meta and OpenAI join applicants seeking .agent domain
- Manus parent says it raised more than $500 million
- Meta's CRAM prototype reports faster compressed-memory reads than ZRAM
- Meta expands Muse to iPad and adds business software connections
- Xreal sets Aura glasses price at $1,279 and opens limited preorders
- EU considers increasing broad corporate levy to collect more from tech giants
- Ai2 releases byte-level checkpoints derived from Qwen and Llama
- Biohub announces $1.8 billion expansion of biological data initiative
- Meta's Muse maps users' relationships and behavioral responses, TIME finds
- Sierra and Meta develop standard for agents accessing businesses
- Meta enables authenticated access to its public time service
- Fake AI sites target advertising accounts with operator-controlled phishing
- Databricks adds Meta advertising tools to Genie workflows
- Facebook tests opening directly into Reels for users in India
- Ofcom investigates Meta's risk checks for Instagram Instants
- SemiAnalysis finds Anthropic subscriptions deliver ~5x OpenAI's API-equivalent value
- Researchers say Meta's Muse builds records of users' personal relationships
- Meta and Microsoft seek to reduce employee use of Claude
- Snowflake introduces preview gateway for AI actions on Meta and TikTok
- Preprint tests AI text watermark that withstands deletion attacks
- Apple and Google seek self-attested age checks in state bills
- Research identifies more than 100 rural data centers potentially eligible for tax benefits
- Extracted Muse instructions reveal hourly profiling of personal relationships
- FP4 pretraining study reports faster throughput with training-loss tradeoffs
- Meta releases code to connect Muse with custom hardware
- Meta says Muse Spark wrote search code that disproved a symmetry conjecture
- Apple plans stricter consent controls for macOS Full Disk Access
- Hans Anders halts Ray-Ban Meta glasses sales in two countries
- Amazon says it has ended government NDAs for data center projects
- Meta claims AI-assisted answers to five mathematics research problems
- PyTorch reports faster attention kernel for Meta ads workloads on Blackwell
- Photon raises $4.5 million for agents that work through messaging services
- Meta classifies AI data centers as experiments to claim chip tax credits
- Preprint reports faster context transfer between different AI model families
September 2026 70 events
- WhatsApp extends parental controls to teens and restricts Meta AI
- Meta reportedly classifies AI data-center equipment as experimental for tax credits
- AI leaders sign voluntary pledge for external audits and board oversight
- Reporter says Meta's Muse accessed Messages database without permission
- Researchers release crash demonstration for patched Apple PDF flaw
- Tester says Meta Muse synced Apple Messages without permission
- Meta Muse reportedly shared seller's home address with a buyer
- Meta launches Muse connections for small-business software
- Six experts resign from internet counterterrorism forum's advisory board
- Meta launches enterprise AI platform for business customers
- Meta recruits MongoDB CEO to lead enterprise AI business
- Writer says Meta's Muse synced messages despite denied access
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- New Mexico jury finds Meta liable for misleading residents
- AI agent incidents traced to access error in security tests
- Meta says AI glasses users will get visual-data opt-out
- Meta plans private processing for smart-glasses translation
- Meta opens $349 camera-free glasses preorders, sets $1,300 VR launch
- Meta plans hearing enhancement for supported glasses at $149
- Meta expands Muse to Canada and adds shopping integrations
- Meta plans email, computer control and video calls for Muse
- Spotify connects playback and playlists to Meta's Muse agent
- Omdia puts Meta at 81.3% of AI glasses shipments
- Meta tests human contractors for calls placed through Muse AI agent
- Global AI glasses shipments rose 263% year over year in first half of 2026
- Researcher reports Meta Muse flaw that exposes Mac control token
- Researcher says Meta Muse exported 6.8GB of internal runtime files
- Andreessen Horowitz invests $35 million in unaccredited technology academy
- Shopify plans Shop Pay purchases through Meta's Muse agent
- Meta's Muse assistant exposed account-control token through local apps
- AI glasses shipments rise 263% as Meta takes 94% of display-less segment
- Meta open-sources Rebalancer resource-allocation software
- Amazon blocks Meta's Muse and expands lawsuit against Perplexity
- Meta plans 1-petabit transatlantic cable using dual-core fiber
- ZuckOff app detects nearby camera glasses through Bluetooth signals
- Amazon blocks Meta's Muse shopping agent from Amazon.com
- Meta's Muse opts users into AI training by default
- Meta challenges Ofcom's WhatsApp and Instagram classifications
- CleanSpark plans $2.227B secured notes for Sandersville data center
- Meta Oversight Board orders removal of two AI deepfake videos
- CleanSpark names Meta tenant for Georgia AI campus
- Instinct and Meta's Muse add business-calling features
- Manus reportedly targets $4 billion valuation after Meta split
- Agencies warn of Iranian-linked CHOSEN BRICK spying malware
- PyTorch post details open-sourced FP8 FlashAttention work for Blackwell
- Meta settlement requires age gates and under-18 account limits
- Meta says it delayed Muse release for safety work
- Meta reportedly plans camera-free AI smart glasses for fall
- Meta adds AI-agent setup for WhatsApp Business
- Meta makes bundled social-app and AI subscriptions available globally
- Meta plans 2027 rollout of two custom AI chips
- Meta sued over photos used for NameTag face recognition and AI training
- Meta AI to change suggested prompts after viral complaint over child questions
- Meta changes AI prompt suggestions after viral invasive-question complaint
- AWS adds prefix-aware routing to SageMaker Inference for LLM endpoints
- Meta's Muse agent reaches No. 2 on US App Store with 83,000 iOS downloads
- Meta AI recruit Andrew Tulloch reportedly leaving for Anthropic after under a year
- Meta says it launched Muse personal AI agent
- Meta-affiliated team reports model selector cuts AI experiment time
- Meta brings Kuna AI-optimized data center online
- Strike 3 asks court to link alleged Meta executive torrenting to larger case
- Canada issues national data-center development principles
- Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 with prior reasoning settings
- Snowflake raises annual outlook as CoCo adoption reaches 9,100 accounts
- HTC expands Vive Eagle smart-glasses rollout
- Meta drops AI-usage metrics from employee performance guidance
- Meta lists Muse Spark 1.3 for agentic and coding workloads
- Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and restricted cyber variant
- Meta shifts internal communications from Google Chat to Slack
- Félix raises $200 million for WhatsApp remittance platform
- Meta removes India banking-malware ads after warning and inquiry
August 2026 68 events
- Instagram plans reach limits for unlabeled AI-generated profiles
- Meta reportedly projected up to $10 billion yearly Anthropic model spend
- Meta reportedly tests robots for physical data-center tasks
- Sources describe Meta's reported $17.1 billion settlement with state attorneys general
- Researchers report 8B agent model result with EvoHarness-RL
- Meta says smart-glasses update stops recording when capture LED is covered
- Meta tests robots for server work in data centers
- OpenAI appoints Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia
- AWS makes Muse-Glimmer and Qwen models available in SageMaker JumpStart
- Meta says smart glasses will stop recording when capture light is covered
- Meta memo describes Hatch agent with app-closed task execution
- Meta settlement requires new limits for teen Facebook and Instagram accounts
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- Meta limits new teen safeguards to U.S. users for now
- Meta settles child-safety litigation with 52 state and local AGs
- OpenRouter adds Meta's Muse Image model at $0.01 per image
- Trump administration reaches AI jobs data-sharing deals with major tech firms
- Perceptron releases open-weight Isaac 0.5 industrial vision model
- Meta agrees to up to $16.68 billion youth-harm settlement
- Meta settles state case with teen feed and notification restrictions
- Preprint compares KV compression with extra GPUs for LLM serving
- Meta and state AGs discuss possible settlement in addiction trial
- DHS announces plan for $103,265 H-1B visa fee
- WhatsApp says it is replacing verification PINs with passwords
- Quest 1 bootloader enables root access without Meta services
- WhatsApp adds multi-device passkeys and stronger verification option
- ChatGPT adds mobile sticker-pack creation and sharing
- Preprint describes constraint-guaranteed robot planning method
- Meta reportedly targets near-term Hatch agent launch
- ChatGPT adds sticker creation and chat-app export
- AEP Ohio gets $18 million from data-center firms for bill assistance
- Luke Metz reportedly joins Meta Superintelligence Labs
- Assessment finds limited public AI-model containment protocols
- Meta reportedly spends hundreds of millions on Azure AI models
- New Jersey teen drops social-media addiction claims before bellwether trial
- Meta becomes a major Azure AI customer, Bloomberg reports
- Meta rolls out Pocket app for prompt-made interactive posts
- Former Meta safety executive testifies in states' youth-harm trial
- Preprint tests multi-PC pipeline for models beyond one machine's memory
- Inco AI releases DFlash 2 speculative-decoding drafters
- Meta launches Mac desktop app for its AI chatbot
- Everpure reports second hyperscaler storage design win
- Ninth Circuit blocks immediate appeal of Meta Section 230 denial
- Apple removes Kromix after report on deepfake-porn features
- California states allege Meta designed youth features to lift ad revenue
- Meta removes ads promoting alleged AI nudification tool after inquiry
- Report says El Paso data-center project lacks total-loss coverage
- Analysis puts AI off-balance-sheet commitments near $3 trillion
- Meta faces 29-state federal trial over youth-harm allegations
- House Democrats press OpenAI and Anthropic over rogue AI agent test breaches
- Meta releases Muse Glimmer open-weight model as Zuckerberg pushes U.S. policy shift
- OpenAI will not rule out critical cyber capability in Astra model, tightens controls
- Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
- OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerful
- Scoop: Amazon Is Behind One of the Largest Planned Gas Power Plants in the US
- New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children's mental health
- Meta Muse Code: AI Agent Tackles Complex Software Repositories
- Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
- Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
- Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents
- Trump's new AI testing framework: Open models spared
- Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
- Big Tech locks in about $1.09 trillion in uncommenced AI data-center leases, Reuters finds
- CoreWeave expands into Indonesia with three data centers, first Asia-Pacific sites
- Anthropic signs a $10bn compute deal with a week-old cloud startup
- Snap beats Q2 revenue estimates on World Cup ads; shares jump 13%
- White House finalizes voluntary AI cyber tests; Meta and Anthropic invited to briefings
- Amazon market value tops $3 trillion as AI lifts cloud demand
- DeepSeek V4-Flash is cheapest well-known model to run on Artificial Analysis tests, firm says
July 2026 28 events
- Google pauses AI image generation in Google Earth after policy violations
- Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
- Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
- Over 1,100 tech employees urge U.S. backing for global AI development pacing effort
- Meta and BlackRock form $14 billion El Paso data-center venture
- Yoodli Appoints Former Meta and Coalition Product Leader Kartik Murthy as VP of Product
- Elio raises $21 million Series A for AI-native optical sensors
- Meta launches new app 'Seller' to provide sales tools for merchants
- Meta AI Doesn't Just Think, It Acts
- Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates
- Trump says nearly 200 firms have signed pledge to protect Americans from costs arising from datacenters
- Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app
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- Meta AI: SAM 3 and DINOv3 cut DOE Genesis Mission 3D volume labeling from ~1 month to ~15 minutes
- Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album
- Meta commits $50B to Louisiana data center, surrounding region
- Anthropic is Keeping Free Claude Fable 5 Access Longer Than Planned
- EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
- Anthropic's $19B TeraWulf Deal Fuels the Neocloud Boom
- Supply chain startup Auger, led by ex-Amazon operations chief, raises $50M and lands big customers
- Muse Spark 1.1
- Meta AI app adds image generation, also powering WhatsApp and Instagram features
- Adobe Advertising Just Launched Its Own Custom Algorithms Product
- EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
- Hidden-State Probes Predict LLM Agent Failure Early, Saving Up to 47% Inference Compute
- Meta launches Muse Image AI image generator from Superintelligence Labs
- Bespoke Labs Announces $40M to Build the Environments That Train Reliable Agents
- OpenAI proposes US government own 5% stake to address political blowback
- Etched emerges from stealth with working transformer-inference ASIC, $800M raised, $1B+ in customer contracts
June 2026 8 events
- Magnificent 7 lose $2.3 trillion in June market value as AI spending fears mount
- Zuckerberg directs Meta to explore partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi while building prediction markets app
- Qualcomm rolls out AI data center CPU, signs Meta as major customer
- Qualcomm forecasts $15 billion data center chip sales by 2029, shares soar
- Only 16% of Americans see positive AI societal impact per Pew
- Meta reports Threads reaching 500 million monthly active users
- AI Collaborations, From Strategic License to Strategic Acquisition
- Instagram alerts users targeted in ongoing Meta AI chatbot account takeover attacks
May 2026 21 events
- Hackers exploit Meta AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts
- Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale raises $250M climate/physical economy fund
- Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
- Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
- How AI Data Centers Are Reshaping Electronic Component Supply in 2026
- Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions with more to come including AI plans
- Human Archive taps Indias gig economy to collect data for physical AI
- DuckDuckGo installs up 30% as users reject Googles AI search
- AI Guardrails Stripped From Meta and Google Models in Minutes
- Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user
- OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
- Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
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- Can Companies Insure Against AI's Growing Risks?
- Meta Ends Instagram Encryption, Canvas Hit by Ransomware Attack
- Threads finally brings messaging to the web
- Meta will use AI to analyze height and bone structure to identify if users are underage
- NVIDIA Fast-Forwarded Co-Packaged Optics Five Years Ahead of Schedule, Arriving First With Its Feynman GPUs
- New Mexico Seeks Sweeping Changes to Meta Platforms in Public Nuisance Trial
- Meta Acquires Robotics AI Startup Assured Robot Intelligence for Humanoid Push
- Replit CEO Masad says company will try to stay independent amid rival Cursor sale talks
- Meta acquires robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid platform
April 2026 87 events
- Meta threatens to withdraw apps from New Mexico over state age-verification demands
- Amazon and Meta lobby India payments regulator over Google Pay and PhonePe dominance
- Meta has lost $83.5 billion on Reality Labs since 2021
- Apple researchers unveil LaDiR framework that uses parallel diffusion to improve LLM reasoning
- EU says Meta fails to keep children under 13 off Facebook and Instagram
- Paragon Said to Be Uncooperative With Italian Spyware Investigation
- More Than 700 Meta AI Contract Workers in Ireland Face Layoffs
- Australia proposes 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok unless they pay news publishers
- Meta signs deal for space-based solar power to fuel data centers
- China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus
- Italian Spyware Firm IPS Linked to Fake-App Android Surveillance Campaign
- Meta sued in class action over scam ads, internal docs cited
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- Meta and Microsoft cut more than 23,000 jobs as AI spending rises
- Thinking Machines Lab hires talent from Meta as AI talent war escalates
- Meta and Microsoft cuts of more than 20,000 jobs renew fears of AI-driven labor disruption
- Meta to Cut 10% of Workforce, About 8,000 Employees
- Meta to cut 8,000 jobs in latest restructuring push toward AI
- Meta to lay off 10% of staff, about 8,000 workers, in May
- Meta installs employee tracking tool to train AI agents
- Gas-Powered Data Center Projects Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
- Tencent Launches International Beta for QClaw AI Agent
- Meta to capture employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training
- Consumer Federation of America sues Meta over scam advertisements
- Homeland Security developing smart glasses with facial recognition for ICE agents
- Jeff Bezos close to $10B funding for AI lab Project Prometheus
- Instagram bug turned HDR photos black and white for some users
- Tech CEOs explore AI avatars and direct-report systems to expand managerial presence
- Dubai police arrest airline worker after accessing private WhatsApp group with bomb damage photos
- Developer tooling startup Expo raises $45M Series B for React Native framework
- Meta preparing to add direct messaging to Threads web version
- Three senior OpenAI executives depart as company shuts down Sora and other 'side quests' in enterprise pivot
- OpenAI executive departs as company restructures scientific research division
- Hacker who breached US Supreme Court filing system gets probation
- Researchers propose Train-to-Test scaling to optimize AI compute budgets
- Nas Daily's AI Platform Nas.com Raises $27 Million Series A Led by Khosla Ventures
- European Governments Shift from WhatsApp to Local Messaging Apps
- Google Partners with Gucci on AI Smart Glasses for 2027 Launch
- Age verification technologies face privacy and accuracy challenges
- Meta raises Quest VR headset prices due to RAM shortage
- Snap cuts 1,000 jobs, citing AI advancements for workforce reduction
- Meta captures 70% of social media ad revenue as Facebook, Instagram dominate market
- AI data center startup Fluidstack reportedly in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation
- NAACP sues xAI over unpermitted gas turbines at AI data center
- Hacker breaches A16Z-backed AI startup Doublespeed, attempts to post memes calling VC firm 'antichrist'
- Civil Rights Groups Demand Meta Halt Facial Recognition Smart Glasses Plans
- North Korean APT37 Uses Facebook to Deliver RokRAT Malware
- Apple Testing Four Smart Glasses Designs to Rival Meta Ray-Bans
- IBM pays $17 million to settle DOJ allegations over DEI practices
- Apple and Meta challenge Texas social media age verification laws in court brief
- Estonia opposes EU-wide child social media bans, citing enforcement concerns
- Three OpenAI Stargate Leaders Depart for Meta
- CoreWeave Stock Rises 11 Percent on Anthropic Partnership for Claude AI Infrastructure
- Lumentum AI Demand Backfills Orders Through 2028
- Meta Releases New AI Model, Positioning for Competition
- Meta commits $21 billion to CoreWeave for AI infrastructure through 2032
- CoreWeave Signs $21 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With Meta
- Meta Outlines Long-Term Strategy for Custom AI Training Chips
- Meta Launches Muse Spark, Its First Proprietary AI Model From Superintelligence Labs
- Major tech stocks rally following U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement
- Z.ai Releases GLM-5.1 Language Model Under MIT License
- EU Parliament Blocks Extension of Mass Chat Scanning Program
- Meta employees compete on internal AI token usage leaderboard
- Bezos' Project Prometheus recruits xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI
- Meta to release first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang
- Meta pauses Mercor partnership after LiteLLM-linked data breach
- Meta pauses work with Mercor after $10 billion AI staffing startup confirms security breach
- EU CSAM scanning legislation expires, leaving tech firms in legal limbo
- Meta suspends Mercor partnership following security breach
- Meta suspends AI data operations after training secrets exposed in breach
- Mark Zuckerberg Returns to Writing Code After Two Decades, Submits Diffs and Uses Claude Code Heavily
- Meta's 'Project Walleye' Ohio Data Center Campus Seeks $3 Billion in Loans Covering Building and Power
- Anthropic Forms AnthroPAC, a Bipartisan Employee-Funded Political Action Committee
- Meta, Microsoft, and Google Are Betting Big on Natural Gas to Power AI Data Centers
- H.264 Video Streaming License Fees Jump From $100,000 Cap to $4.5 Million in Restructured System
- Arm Architecture on Track to Power 90% of AI Server Custom Silicon by 2029
- AI Cited as Cause of 25% of US Job Cuts in March as Tech Layoffs Accelerate
- Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Delayed or Canceled as Power and Parts Shortages Bite
- Meta and Google Face Legal Challenges as Court Cases Begin to Erode Section 230 Protections
- Unable to Access Top Chips, Researchers Embrace 'Frugal AI' Built on Smaller Open Models
- Lawsuit Claims Perplexity's Incognito Mode Shared Private Chats With Google and Meta
- US Electrical Equipment Shortage Threatens AI Data Center Buildout as Imports Stall
- Meta Tells Oversight Board It May End Funding After 2028, Sources Say
- Flipboard Launches Surf, a Fediverse Client and Custom Feed Reader for the Open Social Web
- Google Releases Gemma 4 Open AI Models and Switches License to Apache 2.0
- UK Social Media Users Are Posting Less as Passive Video Consumption Rises, Ofcom Reports
- SpaceX Confidentially Files for IPO Targeting $1.75 Trillion Valuation
- Jury Verdicts Against Meta and YouTube Target Platform Design, Not Just Content -- and That Changes the Legal Picture
March 2026 37 events
- Meta Faces Thousands More Lawsuits Over Teen Harm After First Major Accountability Ruling
- Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Is Proprietary, Marking a Shift Away From Its Open-Source Strategy
- Big Tech's $635 Billion AI Spending Plans Face Energy Supply Test, S&P Global Warns
- Babel Audio Pays Strangers $17 an Hour to Record Conversations for AI Training Data
- Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni, Claims Omnimodal LLM Surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on Audio Benchmarks
- Mistral AI Raises $830 Million to Expand Nvidia GPU Data Center Capacity
- Your Photos Are Leaking Your Location. Here's What the Metadata Contains
- Solar Is Winning the Global Energy Race
- Bluesky Launches Attie, an AI App for Building Custom Feeds
- The Texas Lawyer Who Beat Meta and Google. and Said Zuckerberg Was 'Rattled' on the Stand
- California State Court Jury Find Meta and Google Liable for Teen Addiction
- Mark Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk to Offer Help With DOGE
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- Meta Agrees to Fund Natural Gas Plants to Power Its Louisiana Data Center
- Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout
- Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
- Arm Builds Its Own Chip for the First Time, for AI, and Meta Gets Dibs
- Meta Hires Dreamer AI Team, Hugo Barra Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs
- OpenAI Hires Meta VP Dave Dugan to Lead Ad Sales
- Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over after ~$80 billion and a company rename
- Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him be CEO
- Meta removes E2E encryption from Instagram DMs; experts warn first major domino
- Accel partner says AI bubble tendencies forming, fewer winners ahead
- OpenAI targets 8,000 employees by end of 2026 to counter Anthropic
- Goodwin advises Octane AI on Moltbook acquisition by Meta
- Mamba-3
- US committee demands Big Tech share private comms with EU officials
- Meta commits up to $27B to Nebius in AI infrastructure deal
- Handle Closes $6M Funding Round to Expand AI Agent Platform for Enterprise Operations
- Quantinuum uses AI agents to discover new quantum optimization algorithms
- Meta Plans Layoffs Affecting Up to 20 Percent of Workforce
- A "diff" tool for AI: Finding behavioral differences in new models
- Sequoia partner and ex-Meta CRO raising $1B+ to build AI-powered holding company
- Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Viral AI Agent Social Network
- Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn
- Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this 'Stargate Norway' startup hits $14.6B valuation
- OpenAI hardware exec Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
- President Trump Secures Historic Commitment to Keep Electricity Costs Down Amid Data Center Boom
February 2026 13 events
- OpenAI hires ex-Meta/AI researcher Ruoming Pang in talent war
- NASA rolls back Artemis II SLS rocket to Vehicle Assembly Building for helium flow repairs
- In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried
- CES 2026 highlights industrial Physical AI and robotics as mainstream business reality
- Microsoft's new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with 'endless AI slop'
- Taalas raises $169M for model-specific AI chips
- Meta scoops up more of Nvidia's AI chip output
- Meta signs multigenerational AI infrastructure pact with Nvidia
- Meta to deploy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs plus Grace CPUs for hyperscale AI data centers
- SMIC warns rushed AI chip capacity buildout risks idle data centers
- [News] US Reportedly Mulls Tariff Exemptions for Amazon, Google, Microsoft on TSMC-Made Chips
- NASA and partners conduct Crew-12 Flight Readiness Review