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$60 billion in one year: Mark Zuckerberg touts Meta's AI investments
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company plans to build a massive data center in Louisiana to power its newest AI model, Llama 4, which is set to launch this year.NBC News - Jan. 24 -
Meta's increased AI spending helps both of our two chipmakers, but one especially
The Investing Club holds its "Morning Meeting" every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET.CNBC - Jan. 24 -
Meta Spending to Soar on AI, Massive Data Center
The social-media giant plans to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, the latest sign of tech companies’ accelerating investments into artificial intelligence.The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 24 -
Zuckerberg wants to spend billions more on AI. Meta investors like that idea.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is targeting $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures this year. One analyst thinks up to $33 billion of that could go toward GPUs.MarketWatch - Jan. 24 -
Meta nearly doubling spending with eye toward AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday the social media company will nearly double its spending this year as it focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) development. Meta is planning to invest ...The Hill - Jan. 24 -
How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance
An AI lab out of China has ignited panic in Silicon Valley after releasing impressive AI models more cheaply and with less-powerful chips than U.S. AI giants.CNBC - Jan. 24 -
Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.VentureBeat - Jan. 24 -
No retraining needed: Sakana’s new AI model changes how machines learn
Sakana found that self-adaptive models can modify their weights during inference to adjust behavior to new and unseen tasks.VentureBeat - Jan. 23 -
Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model
Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an "AI war."CNBC - Jan. 23 -
‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield.Wired - Jan. 23 -
Microsoft’s LinkedIn Sued for Training AI Models With User Data
The suit alleges LinkedIn quietly introduced a privacy setting that let users enable or disable the sharing of their personal data.Inc. - Jan. 22 -
Early Facebook investor Jim Breyer says Zuckerberg has been 'revitalized' by Meta's AI push
Venture capitalist and early Facebook investor Jim Breyer said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been energized by his company's recent push into AI.CNBC - Jan. 22 -
Sources: Arkansas' Fland likely out rest of season
Arkansas guard Boogie Fland, one of the best freshmen in the country, is expected to miss the rest of the season with a hand injury, sources confirmed to ESPN.ESPN - Jan. 22 -
U.S. investors liked the Stargate AI news. Asian investors loved it.
SoftBank shares surged — on five times the previous day’s volume — on Wednesday after the Japanese investment group landed a starring role in an U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout ...MarketWatch - Jan. 22 -
Jon Stewart on tech moguls at Trump inauguration: 'Are we just open-source Illuminati now?'
Comedian Jon Stewart on Monday criticized the appearance of tech moguls at President Trump’s inauguration. “Yes, taking the place of seats normally reserved for Democratic or Republican governors, ...The Hill - Jan. 21 -
Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost
The company developed DeepSeek-R1 by using pure reinforcement learning on top of DeepSeek-V3-Base, and matched or beat o1 on some benchmarks.VentureBeat - Jan. 20 -
Trump likely to sign executive orders at Capitol, then Capital One Arena, sources say
Advisers told ABC News he plans on more than 200 on his first day in office.ABC News - Jan. 19 -
Brooklyn trio raises $10 million for startup that wants to help open-source developers get paid
Out of the old Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, a trio of techies has raised $10 million for Merit Systems to focus on fixing an open-source problem.CNBC - Jan. 16 -
Azerbaijan’s Leader, Emboldened, Picks a Rare Fight With Putin
Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.The New York Times - Jan. 16 -
Botika raises $8M to change fashion photography with AI-generated fashion models
Botika, a started focused on AI-generated fashion models, has raised $8 million and launched its new mobile iOS app.VentureBeat - Jan. 16 -
Building resilience with AI threat modeling: Lessons from the Rate Companies
Discover how AI threat modeling is helping CISOs redefine zero trust in 2025 by combating identity-based attacks.VentureBeat - Jan. 16 -
MiniMax unveils its own open-source LLM with industry-leading 4M token context
LLM MiniMax-Text-o1 is of particular note for enabling up to 4 million tokens in its context window — equivalent to a small library.VentureBeat - Jan. 14 -
OpenAI Details How It Would Like AI to Be Regulated
The resulting regulation—or lack thereof—could have repercussions for businesses working on artificial intelligence.Inc. - Jan. 14 -
US leadership in AI requires open-source diplomacy
Rather than treating open models as a threat, the new administration should embrace them as an opportunity.The Hill - Jan. 12 -
Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim
Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warnings. Business live – latest updates Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of “pirated” versions of ...The Guardian - Jan. 10 -
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.Wired - Jan. 9 -
College football picks, odds, predictions for 2025 CFP: Model likes Over in Orange Bowl playoff semifinal
SportsLine's advanced computer model has revealed its 2025 College Football Playoff picks and predictionsCBS Sports - Jan. 9 -
Microsoft makes powerful Phi-4 model fully open-source on Hugging Face
Phi-4 demonstrates that smaller, well-designed models can achieve comparable or superior results compared with larger models.VentureBeat - Jan. 8 -
How would X's "community notes" model work on Meta platforms?
Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced Tuesday that its platforms will eliminate their third-party fact-checking systems. NPR correspondent Shannon Bond joins "The Daily Report" ...CBS News - Jan. 7 -
Meta hosts AI chatbots imitating 'Hitler,' 'Jesus Christ' and Taylor Swift
In less than six months users have created and successfully published chatbots on Meta’s platforms that violate its rules.NBC News - Jan. 7 -
‘People thought we liked being touched and grabbed’: a former Abercrombie model recalls brand’s dark days
Kai Braden was a shirtless greeter during the brand’s mid-aughts peak. Twenty years later, his advocacy has helped secure first-of-their-kind protections for fashion workers. Something felt off ...The Guardian - Jan. 7 -
CNBC Daily Open: The AI sector still has legs to run
Semiconductor stocks jumped on Monday, lifted by buoyant news regarding the artificial intelligence sector. The S&P and Nasdaq posted two straight days of gains.CNBC - Jan. 7 -
Nvidia’s AI agent play is here with new models, orchestration blueprints
Nvidia enters the AI agent space with a family of language models for agentic instruction and orchestrarion frameworks it calls Blueprints.VentureBeat - Jan. 7 -
Nvidia unveils AI foundation models running on RTX AI PCs
Nvidia today announced foundation models running locally on Nvidia RTX AI PCs that supercharge digital humans, content creation, productivity and development.VentureBeat - Jan. 7 -
Nvidia launches Cosmos World Foundation Model platform to accelerate physical AI
Nvidia launched its Cosmos World Foundation Model platform to accelerate physical AI development.VentureBeat - Jan. 7 -
Nvidia’s Nemotron Model Families will advance AI agents
Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.VentureBeat - Jan. 7 -
Chinese robot vacuum cleaner company reveals model with an AI-powered arm
Chinese robot vacuum cleaner company Roborock says its new model has an artificial intelligence-powered folding arm for removing socks and other obstacles.CNBC - Jan. 5