Meta's AI chatbot service recently raised serious privacy concerns after thousands of users discovered their supposedly private conversations appeared publicly in the app's Discover feed. The issue came to light in early June 2025, when users reported seeing their personal health questions, dating advice, and other
A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that Meta legally used authors' works to train its AI models. Judge Vince Chhabria's decision determined that the Facebook parent company's practices are protected under the fair use doctrine, though the judge cautioned this doesn't
In July 2025, a serious privacy flaw was discovered in the Meta AI application that caused users' conversations to automatically become public due to default settings, making personal questions and answers visible to anyone, which most users were unprepared for. The root of the problem was the app'
The Climate Change Information Centre, developed by Meta, a tool for information about climate change, suffers from serious methodological problems that cause it to communicate misleading data to users potentially. Based on a Financial Times report from July 12, 2025, researchers from three universities have uncovered significant deficiencies in Meta&
The battle for AI talent has intensified between Meta and OpenAI, with the scarce resource driving offers into the billions. Meta poached 8 OpenAI researchers in just two weeks in June 2025, while OpenAI responds with its own talent development program that recruits 30 residents annually at $210,000 yearly
Meta signed a 20-year agreement with Constellation Energy to secure nuclear power for meeting rising energy needs from AI infrastructure, announced on June 3rd. The deal will expand Clinton Clean Energy Center's output by 30 megawatts, preserve 1,100 local jobs and generate $13.5 million in annual
Meta Platforms is in talks to make an investment that could exceed $10 billion in Scale AI, an artificial intelligence startup currently valued at $13.8 billion. Bloomberg News reported on the not-yet-finalised deal on June 8, 2025, which would mark Meta's largest external AI investment to date.
Meta Platforms Inc. has announced the creation of a new superintelligence research laboratory named Scale AI, appointing Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, to lead the company's superintelligence development efforts. According to information made public on June 13, 2025, Meta is investing four billion dollars in Scale AI
Meta officially launched the Llama Startup Program on 21st May 2025, providing 50 selected ventures with access to the complete Llama 3.1 model family, including the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 405B model, alongside technical support and up to $150,000 in Meta AI cloud credits. The programme
Meta released its standalone artificial intelligence application on April 29, 2025, directly competing with OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI assistants – announced at the company's LlamaCon developer event in California. The new app runs on Meta's Llama AI model and offers personalised responses based on
On July 7, 2023, writers Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden filed a class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms in the Northern District Court of California, claiming that the company used their books without permission to train its Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA), which was released in February
According to court filings released on 14 February 2025, Meta suspended licensing negotiations with book publishers in April 2023 after most publishers showed little interest or lacked the necessary rights to provide AI training data. The newly submitted documents in the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms case—a class action lawsuit
