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For investors anxious to hear more about Meta's plans to make money from its big AI spending, Mark Zuckerberg said there's a trade-off.

Freehand, a startup building AI agents that manage supply-chain spend for giants including Meta and Pfizer, has raised $75 million in funding.

Social media chief defends strategy based on personalised bots as costs rise and revenue projections disappoint

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.

On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.

Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do […]

The Nasdaq 100 is flirting with correction territory as investors brace for earnings reports from Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.

Popular telehealth provider Hims & Hers "shared consumers’ sensitive health information with third-party advertising platforms such as Meta and Snap despite promising to protect patient privacy," the federal government alleges.

Meta chief warns against ‘regulatory capture’ of American rules on the technology

A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.

Fact-checking saw a rapid expansion in the mid 2010s when major social media platforms, especially Meta, started funding these activities. Today, however, fact checkers stand at a critical juncture. The early 2020s brought them three interrelated yet distinct crises: financial, technological, and legitimacy crises. The post The future of fact-checking in the algorithmic society first appeared on HKS Misinformation Review .

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better […]

Alphabet's free cash flow has turned negative, and the company lifted its capital spending forecast. Slower-growing cloud rivals report this week.

Background: Multimorbidity involves heterogeneous disease combinations, treatment burden, competing priorities, and complex care pathways. Digital health interventions (DHIs) may support monitoring, self-management, and care coordination, but their effects on health-related outcomes remain uncertain. Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of DHIs on physiological, psychological, and functional outcomes in adults with multimorbidity, summarized implementat

Meta has confirmed it will spend billions on a new AI data center in Texas just months after raising Quest prices due to an AI-driven memory shortage.

The Bombay High Court will hear Gadkari's plea seeking Rs 11 crore in damages and sweeping takedown orders against AI-generated content. The post Why has Nitin Gadkari sued Meta, X and Google over AI deepfakes? appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is the standard approach for aligning large language models with human preferences, but its quality is limited by static, task-agnostic reward models. This mismatch leads to sparse learning signals and suboptimal alignment. We introduce MeRLa (Meta-Learned Reward Shaping), a principled framework that meta-learns a task-aware shaping function $Φ(x,y;φ)$ across auxiliary tasks before RLHF training. The learned shaping produces a composite reward th

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide. Though China's authoritarian government bans use of Meta ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1268#7607)

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is under scrutiny after leaked internal documents revealed that it expected a significant portion of its 2024 revenue to come from ads linked to scams, fraud and banned products. Th ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1268#7608)

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

Healthcare interoperability requires AI systems to produce structured outputs conforming to standardized schemas including ICD-10 for diagnostic coding, CPT for procedure billing, and HL7 FHIR for data exchange. While large language models demonstrate clinical reasoning capabilities, their integration into electronic health record systems faces a critical barrier: schema noncompliance. We evaluate three open-source models, Qwen2.5 7B, Llama 3.1 8B, and Gemma2 9B, via local deployment across 320

Despite recent advances in large language models (LLMs), their ability to generate empathetic mental health counseling responses in low-resource languages remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we curate 625 authentic mental health cases from three complementary sources: (1) publicly available Facebook posts discussing mental health concerns, (2) transcripts from the Bangladeshi television program "Ami Akhon Ki Korbo", and (3) anonymized student questionnaire responses covering diverse

The Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance and minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis filed a lawsuit on Friday for deceptive advertising on Facebook against the unknown administrators of a page on the social media platform. The ministry and Pierrak ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1271#7596)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with the first Reel drawing more than 300 million views in 24 hours and breaking the platform’s record for a single clip. The 75-year-old leader recorded the videos late Thursday and Friday, choosing the short-video format most popular […] This story continues at The Next Web

The company has comitted to 10 natural gas plants since last year.

The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."

Google, Amazon and Meta are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward on companies they lend to.

Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. […]

BlackRock-led deal meets investor anxiety over rising AI exposure

A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News. The post News diary 27 July – 2 August: Apple and Meta results, Manchester mayor election and Commonwealth Games appeared first on Press Gazette .

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

Anthropic has doubled down on its position as the AI company pushing hardest for industry regulation , announcing on July 21 that it plans to donate another $20 million to Public First Action, a political group that advocates for government-imposed safeguards on AI. The contribution brings Anthropic’s total donations to the group to $40 million. It comes as the midterm elections in the U.S. draw closer and AI legislation remains a political hot button. “We’ve long argued that frontier AI compani

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

A minor who sued multiple social media companies over claims that he suffered mental health problems due to his use of their platforms has dropped his lawsuit against Meta, just days before the case was set to go to trial in California. The plaintiff identified only as “R.K.C.” had brought claims against YouTube, Meta, Snap...

Background: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a major global health challenge. While nonpharmacological therapies are recommended, patient compliance is often hindered by kinesiophobia. Virtual reality (VR) offers an immersive, distraction-based approach, but the comparative effectiveness of different VR modalities remains unclear. Objective: The aim of the study is to compare and rank the efficacy of different VR-based training modalities on pain intensity, disability, and kinesiophobia in patien

AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic. In return, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for training and running its Claude models. For AMD, this is another major deal after Meta and OpenAI as it tries to challenge Nvidia as an AI chip supplier. Critics see these agreements as circular cash flows. The article Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for Claude in a deal worth up to $5 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

Disposal of Chinese agentic AI start-up has left the Facebook owner better off than it might seem. Von Louise Lucas ( KI , Wirtschaft )