Meta Signs $150M Deal to License News Corp Content for AI
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.
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Meta Opens WhatsApp AI API Under EU Pressure - For a Price
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.
Meta's AI Glasses Send Intimate Footage to Workers in Kenya
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's $100B AMD Bet Is a Direct Shot at Nvidia
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.
AI Is Killing Desk Jobs and Begging for Electricians
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 Takes on Meta With Qwen AI Smart Glasses
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.
Manus AI Review: The Autonomous Agent That Seduced Meta for $2 Billion
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 Signs Multibillion-Dollar Deal to Rent Google TPUs - Completing a Three-Way Chip Strategy
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.
Seven Tech Giants Will Sign Trump's 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge' to Build Their Own Power for AI Data Centers
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.
Kimi K2.5 vs Llama 4 Maverick: The Open MoE Heavyweights Go Head to Head
A detailed comparison of Kimi K2.5 and Llama 4 Maverick - two open-weight MoE models with radically different takes on the size, cost, and capability trade-off.
Kimi K2.5 vs Llama 4 Scout: Benchmark King Meets Context King
Comparing Kimi K2.5 and Llama 4 Scout - Moonshot AI's benchmark-crushing trillion-parameter model versus Meta's 10-million-token context window specialist.
Llama 4 Maverick
Meta's Llama 4 Maverick packs 400B total parameters into a 128-expert MoE architecture with only 17B active per token, beating GPT-4o on Chatbot Arena while matching DeepSeek V3 on reasoning at half the active parameters.
