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Founded2004

Key PeopleMark Zuckerberg, Alexandr Wang

HeadquartersMenlo Park, USA

ProductsLlama, Meta AI

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Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as court filing reveals Zuckerberg rejected safety controls

Meta has suspended teen access to AI characters across all its platforms while developing a new version with parental controls. The move comes as internal documents reveal CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially rejected safety recommendations and opposed parental controls, despite staff warnings about sexual interactions with minors. The company faces a New Mexico trial next month over allegations of insufficient protection of children.

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Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as court filing reveals Zuckerberg rejected safety controls

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China deepens review of Meta's $2 billion Manus acquisition over tech export concerns

Beijing has expanded its investigation into Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Chinese-founded AI startup Manus, examining potential violations of tech export controls, cross-border currency flows, and tax accounting rules. The probe highlights concerns about foreign control of AI technology and spotlights the practice of 'Singapore-washing' by Chinese companies relocating to avoid regulatory oversight.

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China deepens review of Meta's $2 billion Manus acquisition over tech export concerns

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Pocket FM hires former Meta scientist Vasu Sharma as head of AI to advance audio storytelling

Pocket FM has appointed Vasu Sharma, a former scientist at Meta's Facebook AI Research (FAIR), as its head of AI. Sharma will lead AI research and innovation across narrative generation, production intelligence and large-scale localisation. His work will focus on developing models that understand story structure and dramatic flow while maintaining creator control over content quality.

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Pocket FM hires former Meta scientist Vasu Sharma as head of AI to advance audio storytelling

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Meta Superintelligence Labs delivers first internal AI models, CTO Andrew Bosworth reveals

Meta's newly formed Superintelligence Labs has delivered its first high-profile AI models internally, just six months after its establishment. CTO Andrew Bosworth called the models "very good" while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, signaling progress in Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive push to compete at the AI frontier.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs delivers first internal AI models, CTO Andrew Bosworth reveals

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Meta's Dina Powell McCormick urges AI rivals to center humanity in collaborative approach

Meta's new president Dina Powell McCormick made her Davos debut calling AI transformation a 'group sport' requiring industry collaboration. Speaking eight days into her role, she urged tech companies to align on core values ensuring AI safety and productivity, while highlighting the need for 500,000 electricians to power the next phase of AI growth.

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Meta's Dina Powell McCormick urges AI rivals to center humanity in collaborative approach

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Instagram Reels AI Dubbing Now Supports Five Indian Languages With Voice Preservation

Instagram expands its AI-powered voice translation and lip-syncing feature for Reels to five Indian languages—Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi. First announced at the House of Instagram event in Mumbai last November, the feature uses Meta AI to preserve creators' voices while dubbing content, helping them reach broader audiences across language barriers.

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Instagram Reels AI Dubbing Now Supports Five Indian Languages With Voice Preservation

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AI Hyperscalers Set to Drive U.S. Corporate Bond Supply to $2.46 Trillion in 2026

Major AI hyperscalers are poised to fuel a significant increase in U.S. corporate bond issuance in 2026, with analysts forecasting $2.46 trillion in total supply. The Big Five tech giants—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle—issued $121 billion in bonds last year and are expected to borrow $140 billion annually over the next three years as they race to expand AI infrastructure.

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AI Hyperscalers Set to Drive U.S. Corporate Bond Supply to $2.46 Trillion in 2026

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Wikipedia signs AI licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon to sustain operations

The Wikimedia Foundation announced licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI for paid API access to Wikipedia's 65 million articles. The partnerships address rising infrastructure costs from data scraping and declining human traffic as AI chatbots answer questions without directing users to Wikipedia itself.

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Wikipedia signs AI licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon to sustain operations

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Wikipedia at 25 faces existential threat from AI while signing major licensing deals

Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary confronting a fundamental challenge to its survival. The crowdsourced encyclopedia has lost over one billion visits between 2022 and 2025 as AI-powered search engines and chatbots increasingly summarize information without directing users to source sites. Meanwhile, the Wikimedia Foundation announced new AI licensing deals with Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to monetize the heavy bot traffic straining its infrastructure.

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Wikipedia at 25 faces existential threat from AI while signing major licensing deals

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Airbnb hires Meta's AI leader Ahmad Al-Dahle as CTO to transform travel with artificial intelligence

Airbnb has appointed Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI at Meta and oversaw the Llama open-source models downloaded over one billion times, as its new Chief Technology Officer. The strategic hire signals Airbnb's push to integrate AI into its travel platform, moving beyond anonymous search to personalized experiences that strengthen human connection.

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Airbnb hires Meta's AI leader Ahmad Al-Dahle as CTO to transform travel with artificial intelligence

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Meta eyes doubling Ray-Ban smart glasses output to 20 million units as AI wearables surge

Meta and EssilorLuxottica are in talks to double production capacity of their AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses to 20 million units annually by year-end, potentially reaching 30 million if demand stays strong. The move comes as Meta cuts over 1,000 Reality Labs jobs, signaling a strategic pivot from high-cost metaverse projects to profitable wearable AI devices.

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Meta eyes doubling Ray-Ban smart glasses output to 20 million units as AI wearables surge

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Brazil orders Meta to suspend WhatsApp AI policy as CADE investigation targets anti-competitive conduct

Brazil's antitrust regulator CADE has ordered Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy that bans third-party AI chatbots from the platform's Business API. The watchdog launched an investigation into potential anti-competitive conduct, examining whether Meta's terms unfairly favor its own Meta AI chatbot while excluding competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity.

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Brazil orders Meta to suspend WhatsApp AI policy as CADE investigation targets anti-competitive conduct

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Meta layoffs slash Reality Labs workforce as Zuckerberg pivots hard from metaverse to AI

Meta is cutting approximately 1,000 jobs from its Reality Labs division this week, marking a dramatic retreat from metaverse ambitions. The division has lost over $70 billion in four years, prompting Mark Zuckerberg to reallocate resources toward AI glasses and wearables. The company is also discontinuing Meta Quest business sales and shuttering Horizon Workrooms as it bets big on AI infrastructure.

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Meta layoffs slash Reality Labs workforce as Zuckerberg pivots hard from metaverse to AI

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Meta launches Meta Compute initiative to build gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure this decade

Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Compute, a new top-level initiative to aggressively expand the company's AI infrastructure. Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts of computing capacity this decade and hundreds of gigawatts over time. The effort will be led by infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan and former Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross, working closely with newly appointed president Dina Powell McCormick.

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Meta launches Meta Compute initiative to build gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure this decade

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WhatsApp exempts Brazil and Italy from controversial AI chatbot ban amid antitrust scrutiny

WhatsApp has carved out exemptions for Brazil and Italy from its new policy blocking rival AI chatbots on its platform. The move follows regulatory orders from both countries' competition authorities investigating Meta for potential abuse of market power. The policy, which affects general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok, takes effect January 15 with a 90-day grace period for developers.

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WhatsApp exempts Brazil and Italy from controversial AI chatbot ban amid antitrust scrutiny

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