Thought Leadership
Meta's planned entry into the cloud market
Meta is in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a deal worth up to 10 billion dollars, marking Meta’s potential entry into cloud computing.
Discrimination against workers on protected leave
26 employees sue Meta, alleging the company used AI systems to decide layoffs and systematically discriminated against workers on protected leave.
Cloud Service for Renting Out AI Compute Power
Meta is building a proprietary cloud infrastructure under the internal project name Meta Compute, aiming to monetize excess data center capacity and expand its AI business into enterprise cloud services.
AI Capacity Bottlenecks
Google has restricted Meta’s access to its Gemini AI models. The Facebook parent company had been using the external AI technology internally without public disclosure.
Smart Glasses Without Ray-Ban Branding
Meta is launching its own smart glasses priced at $299, without Ray-Ban branding. The models feature longer battery life and the new Muse Spark AI model.
Meta’s AI restructuring
After cutting around 8,000 jobs, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged organizational mistakes during the company’s restructuring around artificial intelligence.
Ai assistant
The European Commission is continuing to put pressure on WhatsApp’s parent company Meta. The background is that Meta, according to the Brussels authority, gives only its own AI assistant access to the WhatsApp messaging service, which preliminary findings suggest violates competition law.
Leadership by algorithm
Meta is building an AI avatar of its CEO based on his voice, appearance and public statements. Whether it will actually work remains to be seen, as the technical and ethical hurdles are considerable.
Massive layoffs incoming?
Meta is gearing up for what could be its largest round of layoffs since the self-declared “year of efficiency.” According to a Reuters report, the company is considering cutting up to one-fifth of its staff.
Deal
Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-like “social network” for AI agents built on top of OpenClaw.
