Meta Launches AI Agent For WhatsApp Business Globally
Meta expanded its business AI push with an agent for WhatsApp Business that can answer questions, recommend products and book appointments.
Meta expanded its business AI push with an agent for WhatsApp Business that can answer questions, recommend products and book appointments.
Meta is pushing AI subscriptions and products beyond ads, but CNBC notes its non-ad businesses have a difficult history.
Meta raised its 2026 capex forecast as investors weighed its expanding AI infrastructure commitments.
Meta Platforms saw a historic 19% drop in its stock this month, erasing $310 billion in value following a major legal ruling and growing investor fears over AI risks.
A growing number of tech executives are publicly attributing mass layoffs to AI adoption, raising questions about whether AI is the real cause or a convenient excuse.
Meta continues open source AI strategy with new model...
Meta Platforms is reportedly planning its largest round of layoffs since 2022, potentially cutting 20% or more of its ~79,000-person workforce as the company redirects billions toward AI infrastructure and data center expansion through 2028.
Meta Platforms has signed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar agreement to rent Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for AI model development, according to The Information. The deal marks a significant diversification away from Nvidia GPUs and follows Meta's recent chip agreements with AMD and Nvidia, underscoring the industry's massive AI infrastructure investment surge in 2026.
AMD and Meta announced a multi-year 6GW agreement deploying custom Instinct MI450 GPUs and EPYC CPUs for Meta's AI inference workloads, with AMD issuing Meta a warrant for up to 160 million shares.
Apple is experiencing a significant brain drain from its AI division, with at least four researchers and a senior Siri executive leaving for competitors like Meta and Google.
Meta's newly formed Superintelligence Labs hits a major milestone, delivering its first internal AI models just six months after formation, as CTO Andrew Bosworth signals a pivotal 2026-2027 for consumer AI.
Wikimedia Foundation announces major AI partnerships with tech giants to monetize content access while marking Wikipedia's 25th anniversary milestone.