Meta executives lobbied United States trade officials to fight an expected fine in Europe, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (April 1), citing unnamed sources. The fine is likely to accompany a cease-and-desist order from the European Union, the report said. At issue is whether...
Meta is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit in France brought by trade associations representing publishers and authors, who accuse the company of training its generative artificial intelligence model on their books without permission. Publishers’ trade association SNE, authors’ association SGDL and writers’ union SNAC brought...
Meta Platforms Inc, the social media giant behind Facebook, is ramping up its efforts in the voice-powered AI space. According to the Financial Times, Meta is planning to introduce improved voice features in its latest version of Llama AI, called Llama 4. The company believes...
Meta is reportedly in talks to raise $35 billion to help finance the development of data centers in the U.S. The talks are at an early stage and there’s no certainty a deal will be reached, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Feb. 27), citing unnamed sources. Meta did not...
WhatApp’s popularity in Europe has placed it under a new regulatory threshold in the region. The Meta-owned messaging service’s user level has reached a point that it is now considered a “very large online platform” (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), Reuters reported Wednesday...
Meta is reportedly forming a new team that will be devoted to developing artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots. The team will be within the company’s Reality Labs hardware division, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 14), citing unnamed sources. It will be led by Marc Whitten, the former...
Meta began notifying employees affected by its previously announced job cuts on Monday (Feb. 10). The company’s emails notifying those who were being let go marked the beginning of a process that is expected to continue through the end of Meta’s performance cycle that goes...
Meta is set to begin its previously announced workforce reduction on Monday (Feb. 10). The company told staff on Friday (Feb. 7) that those who are laid off will be cut off from Meta’s internal system within an hour and notified about their severance packages...
In one of the most high-profile reactions since it rocked the artificial intelligence (AI) world earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday (Jan. 29) lauded the innovations of DeepSeek’s lower-cost AI model during the company’s Q4 earnings call. But he said it is...