Meta researchers introduce 'hyperagents' to unlock self-improving AI for non-coding tasks

Meta's new hyperagent framework breaks the AI "maintenance wall," allowing systems to autonomously rewrite their own logic ...

Meta has snapped up a fifth founding member from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab

Meta has hired another founding engineer from Thinking Machines Lab as the AI talent wars intensify. The startup is still ...
Gizmodo

Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff

AI can get you to Inbox Zero very easily: it’ll just delete all of your messages. Over the weekend, Summer Yue, the director of safety and alignment at Meta’s superintelligence lab, posted on Twitter ...
Road to VR

Omni One VR Treadmill Joins ‘Made for Meta’ Program, Opening Door to Quest Compatibility

Virtuix announced it’s joined the Made for Meta program, which opens the door to bring official Quest compatibility to the company’s Omni One VR treadmill. Made for Meta is a hardware partnership that ...
Hosted on MSN

New government program pays tech talent up to $195K then delivers them to Amazon, Meta

The federal government is hiring 1,000 tech workers in partnership with 28 major companies, offering high salaries and a fast track to Silicon Valley careers. New Budweiser Super Bowl ad Bartenders ...
AOL

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is dropping over $2 billion for an AI startup—a rare example of a U.S. tech giant buying a platform founded in China

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta says it has agreed to acquire Manus, a fast-growing AI startup with Chinese roots now based in Singapore, in a deal valued at more than $2 billion, according to multiple reports ...
CoinDesk

Metaplanet to start sponsored ADR program to woo over-the-counter U.S. investors

Japanese bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet (3350) said its American depositary receipts (ADRs) will start trading Dec. 19 on the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) market under the ticker MPJPY. The ...
The Verge

Meta pauses third-party Horizon VR headsets program

Instead, the company plans to focus on ‘world-class first-party hardware and software.’ Instead, the company plans to focus on ‘world-class first-party hardware and software.’ is a senior reporter ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Is in Talks to Use Google’s Chips in Challenge to Nvidia

Meta Platforms META-1.12%decrease; red down pointing triangle is in talks to use chips made by Google in its artificial-intelligence efforts, a step toward diversifying away from its reliance on ...
Android

New Meta Program Lets You Trade-In AirPods for Smart Glasses

Meta is testing a pilot program allowing users to trade premium earbuds (like AirPods Pro) for up to $113 off Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. This unusual audio-to-visual swap targets competitors and runs ...
TechNode

Singapore’s national AI program drops Meta model and switches to Alibaba’s Qwen

Singapore’s national AI program has moved its Sea-Lion large language model off Meta’s model family and adopted Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen architecture, according to information cited by foreign media from ...