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Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.
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Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.

Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand their flagship Abilene data center from 1.2 GW to 2 GW after financing talks collapsed and a winter cooling outage strained relations with operator Crusoe.

Meta acquires the viral AI-only social network Moltbook, bringing its founders into Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company races to build agent infrastructure.

Meta will pay News Corp up to $50 million per year for three years to license Wall Street Journal and other content for Meta AI training and chatbot responses.

Meta reversed its WhatsApp ban on rival AI chatbots in Europe and Brazil, but now charges rivals up to €0.13 per message - pricing critics call a disguised ban.

A Swedish investigation reveals Meta routes sensitive Ray-Ban smart glasses footage to data annotators in Kenya who see users undressing, having sex, and flashing bank cards - with broken anonymization and no real opt-out.

Meta and AMD signed a 6-gigawatt, multi-year GPU pact worth up to $100B - announced days after a separate Nvidia expansion, signaling Meta's deliberate strategy to break single-vendor dependence in AI compute.

A 439,000-worker construction shortage is delaying AI data centers while electricians command $200K salaries and Big Tech scrambles to fill the gap.

Alibaba unveils Qwen-branded AI smart glasses at MWC Barcelona with pre-orders starting March 2, challenging Meta's dominance in a wearable AI market that tripled last year.

A hands-on review of Manus AI - the autonomous agent platform that topped GAIA benchmarks, got acquired by Meta for $2 billion, and still can't reliably handle your credit card.

Meta has agreed to rent Google's Ironwood TPUs through Google Cloud to train next-generation AI models, adding a third major chip supplier alongside Nvidia and AMD in a single month.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will meet at the White House on March 4 to sign a voluntary pledge to build, bring, or buy their own electricity supply for AI data centers - but the agreement has no enforcement mechanism.