Meta's Model Capability Initiative, which records employee keystrokes and mouse activity to build AI training data, has triggered a viral internal petition and contributed to record-low staff morale.
More than 50 engineers and researchers have left SpaceXAI since the SpaceX-xAI merger, with rivals Meta and Thinking Machines Labs absorbing key talent.
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow claim Meta built its Llama AI models using books stripped from piracy repositories, a charge that could void a fair-use defense.
Meta will use AI to scan photos and videos for body-based visual cues — including apparent height and skeletal structure — to detect and remove accounts belonging to users under 13.
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), placing co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang inside Superintelligence Labs — marking Pinto's second Big Tech acquisition in thirty days.
Meta's Q1 2026 earnings show 33% revenue growth and a massive capex increase — but a user decline and Reality Labs losses sent shares down 7%.
Over 700 Covalen contractors in Dublin who annotate Meta's AI training data face layoffs as Meta pivots to automated content enforcement.
Meta has signed a 1 GW capacity deal with Overview Energy, a startup planning to beam orbital solar power to Earth as near-infrared light.
An autonomous AI agent at Meta inadvertently leaked sensitive company and user data to unauthorized employees for two hours.
Meta is rolling out new AI-powered content enforcement tools while scaling back third-party vendor partnerships.