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Tuesday 1 July 2025
AI smart glasses heat up: Taiwan's chipmakers move in as big tech revives wearables
Meta's surprise success with its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2024 reignited industry confidence in headworn devices. The result: a renewed wave of investment and innovation from big...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Zuckerberg announces Meta 'Superintelligence' effort, more hires
Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major restructuring of the company's artificial intelligence (AI) group, including a commitment to developing AI "superintelligence,"...
Monday 30 June 2025
Meta bolsters AI team by recruiting four researchers from OpenAI
Meta has successfully recruited four artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI to join its newly formed superintelligence laboratory, underscoring the fierce competition between...
Monday 23 June 2025
AI talent war intensifies as Sequoia Capital compares recruitment to sports team poaching
Meta's aggressive spending on AI talent and acquisitions has intensified competition in the sector, with top companies vying to secure experts amid a booming generative AI market...
Thursday 19 June 2025
OpenAI confirmed ending collaboration with Scale AI, seeking new data suppliers
OpenAI has phased out its partnership with Scale AI as part of a long-term strategy to find data suppliers more aligned with its model needs, independent of Meta Platforms' recent...
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Meta gets out its checkbook to catch up in the AI race
It sounded like something that should have come from the sports desk — a US$14.3 billion transfer fee for a young up-and-coming prospect as Meta Platforms Inc. looks to rebuild...
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Scale AI's Wang brings to Meta knowledge of what everyone else is doing—Part 2
As the AI boom intensified, Scale AI became the industry's secret weapon—quietly supplying the data backbone behind the most powerful machine learning models. While the spotlight...
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Scale AI's Wang brings to Meta knowledge of what everyone else is doing—Part 1
Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang is such an enthusiastic networker that his former roommate — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman — once jokingly told him to tone...
Monday 16 June 2025
Meta's acquisition of Scale AI highlights complexities in US-China AI rivalry
Meta's acquisition of Scale AI for a reported US$14.3 billion marks a significant step in its push to strengthen artificial intelligence capabilities, joining the growing wave of...
Monday 16 June 2025
Scale AI's data neutrality under question: Meta stake reportedly sparks client exodus
After Meta Platforms acquired up to a 49% stake in Scale AI, major clients like Alphabet, Microsoft Azure, and Elon Musk's xAI are reportedly reconsidering their ties amid concerns...
Friday 13 June 2025
Meta finalizes investment in Scale AI, recruits CEO to build AGI team
Meta has announced a finalized investment and strategic partnership with AI startup Scale AI, along with recruiting Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to join Meta. Scale AI issued...
Friday 13 June 2025
Meta, OpenAI, Oracle back AMD’s open AI ecosystem
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled its AI roadmap at the "AMD Advancing AI 2025" conference, highlighting a sweeping vision for an open, end-to-end AI platform spanning chips,...
Thursday 12 June 2025
Meta taps top researchers from Google, Sesame for new AI lab
Meta Platforms Inc. has poached top engineers from multiple tech firms, including Alphabet Inc.'s Google, for a new team focused on achieving a more advanced form of AI called artificial...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Qualcomm demonstrates new processor for AI-based smart glasses
Qualcomm Inc., the top maker of smartphone processors, is making a bigger push into smart glasses with low-power components that can run artificial intelligence software.
Wednesday 28 May 2025
Meta's future lies with judge as FTC antitrust trial ends
Meta Platforms Inc. has done all it can in court to fight back at the US Federal Trade Commission's claims that it's a monopoly. Now it's up to a federal judge to decide whether the...