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Meta META is reportedly preparing to invest more than $10 billion in Scale AI, a startup providing high-quality labeled data to companies building next-generation AI models, including OpenAI and Microsoft MSFT. If finalized, the deal would rank among the largest private funding rounds in tech history, Bloomberg reports.
Ah, New York. The city that never sleeps—and now, apparently, never stops regulating either. The Big Apple has just passed a bill aimed at preventing AI-fueled disasters, tackling the digital
Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.
Three months after the Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek upended the tech world with a model that rivaled America’s best, a 28-year-old AI executive named Alexandr Wang came to Capitol Hill to tell policymakers what they needed to do to maintain US dominance.
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Meta signed an agreement with XGS Energy to help develop 150 megawatts of advanced geothermal electricity in New Mexico to power the Facebook parent company's artificial intelligence expansion, the companies said on Thursday.
Meta plans to set up a new AI research lab, according to reports by the New York Times based on four sources. The company wants to focus on research into superintelligence – a hypothetical AI system that would surpass the capabilities of the human brain.
Meta's new advertising guidelines for Real Money Gaming allow regulated operators to advertise on Facebook and Instagram with prior approval. This change opens a significant market for gaming ads, promoting compliance and responsible targeting particularly by prohibiting ads aimed at users under 18.
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to scale up the company’s artificial-intelligence ambitions took their latest step forward with an investment in ScaleAI and the poaching of the the data-labeling AI startup’s founder.