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Snowflake signs $6B AWS deal for Graviton chips as AI CPU demand surges
The five-year contract doubles Snowflake's total AWS Marketplace revenue since 2012 and signals CPU chip competition heating up.
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions globally
The company is rolling out $2.99–$3.99 monthly plans while testing AI and creator tiers under a new Meta One brand.
Boris Cherny says the title 'software engineer' could disappear by end of 2026
Anthropic's Claude Code creator hasn't written code in six months and predicts 100x more builders.
Meta lays off 8,000 employees to offset AI investments
The cuts amount to 10% of Meta's workforce as the company doubles 2025 capital spending.
Anduril and Meta prototype AI smart glasses to direct drone strikes for the Army
The defense-tech firm won a $159M contract to build augmented-reality headsets with eye-tracking, voice commands, and LLM-powered targeting.
LetinAR raises $18.5M to supply optical modules for AI glasses
The South Korean startup's PinTILT lenses ship in Aegis Rider's AR motorcycle helmet as global AI glasses shipments cross 8.7 million units.
Campbell Brown's Forum AI builds expert benchmarks to grade frontier models
The former Meta news chief raised $3M to test how ChatGPT, Gemini and rivals handle geopolitics, hiring and mental health.
Zuckerberg unveils Incognito Chat, an end-to-end encrypted Meta AI mode
Meta says no one — including Meta — can read the conversations, a direct contrast with retention windows at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat for Meta AI, shielding prompts from Meta itself
The new mode runs inference inside a Trusted Execution Environment and leans on WhatsApp's Private Processing infrastructure, with 3 billion users in scope.
Meta offers free WhatsApp access to rival AI chatbots to dodge EU fine
The concession would let competing AI assistants reach WhatsApp users directly, a structural shift for Meta's messaging platform in Europe.
Meta AI launches as a taggable Threads account users cannot block
Threads users in five countries can tag Meta AI for answers, but the account has no block option — and the complaint trended past 1 million posts.
Threads tests Meta AI mentions in a Grok-style rollout across five countries
Public Threads users can tag @meta.ai for real-time context on news and trends; the beta is live in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore.
Amazon staff 'tokenmaxx' on internal MeshClaw tool to hit AI usage targets
Employees say they automate filler tasks to inflate token counts after Amazon set an 80% weekly AI usage target for developers.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines unveils real-time 'interaction models'
The startup says its new approach lets AI continuously process audio, video, and text instead of waiting turn-by-turn for users to finish.
Jack Clark backs 'radical optionality' as AI governance blueprint
Import AI 456 endorses an Institute for Law & AI proposal to build regulatory tools now, alongside a Meta-KAIST paper imagining a 10T-1000T neural computer.
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods near production for a Siri-powered AI debut
Prototypes are in design validation testing now, with launch likely tied to the delayed Siri overhaul shipping in September.
Macmillan, McGraw Hill, and Hachette sue Meta over Llama training data
Five publishers and author Scott Turow allege Meta pulled copyrighted books from LibGen and Anna's Archive to train Llama.
Meta will scan height and bone structure to flag under-13 users on Facebook and Instagram
The visual analysis arrives weeks after a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading users about platform safety.
Meta acquires humanoid robotics startup ARI for Superintelligence Labs
Assured Robot Intelligence's founders join Meta's AI unit as the company chases a humanoid market Morgan Stanley pegs at $5 trillion by 2050.
Meta cuts Sama contract affecting 1,108 workers after Ray-Ban Meta footage complaints
Kenyan annotators said they reviewed private footage from Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses; Meta says Sama failed to meet its standards.
Meta's business AI hits 10M weekly conversations, up 10x since January
Zuckerberg signals paid tier ahead as Meta's free messaging assistants scale across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
Meta loses another $4B on Reality Labs as AI capex balloons past $125B
Reality Labs has now bled $83.5B since 2021, even as Meta projects up to $145B in 2026 infrastructure spending.
Big Tech's $700B AI Capex Faces ROI Reckoning as Earnings Land
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon report this week with Wall Street demanding revenue proof for record AI infrastructure spending.
Meta contractor Covalen tells 700+ Dublin AI trainers their jobs are at risk
Roughly 500 of the affected workers are data annotators training Meta's content-moderation models — the second cut at Covalen in six months.
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