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July 2026
- Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund
- Anthropic's $19B TeraWulf Deal Fuels the Neocloud Boom
- EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
- EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
- Meta enters AI image model race in bid to court advertisers and subscribers
- Adobe Advertising Just Launched Its Own Custom Algorithms Product
- Muse Spark 1.1
- Meta AI app adds image generation, also powering WhatsApp and Instagram features
- Meta Announces New AI Model in Major Test of Company's Ambitions
- Supply chain startup Auger, led by ex-Amazon operations chief, raises $50M and lands big customers
- Hidden-State Probes Predict LLM Agent Failure Early, Saving Up to 47% Inference Compute
- Meta launches Muse Image AI image generator from Superintelligence Labs
- Meta Develops Plans for Cloud Infrastructure Business Selling Excess AI Compute
- Bespoke Labs Announces $40M to Build the Environments That Train Reliable Agents
- OpenAI proposes US government own 5% stake to address political blowback
- Etched emerges from stealth with working transformer-inference ASIC, $800M raised, $1B+ in customer contracts
June 2026
- Magnificent 7 lose $2.3 trillion in June market value as AI spending fears mount
- Zuckerberg directs Meta to explore partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi while building prediction markets app
- Qualcomm forecasts $15 billion data center chip sales by 2029, shares soar
- Qualcomm rolls out AI data center CPU, signs Meta as major customer
- Only 16% of Americans see positive AI societal impact per Pew
- Meta reports Threads reaching 500 million monthly active users
- AI Collaborations, From Strategic License to Strategic Acquisition
- Instagram alerts users targeted in ongoing Meta AI chatbot account takeover attacks
May 2026
- Hackers exploit Meta AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts
- Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale raises $250M climate/physical economy fund
- Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
- Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
- Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions with more to come including AI plans
- How AI Data Centers Are Reshaping Electronic Component Supply in 2026
- Human Archive taps Indias gig economy to collect data for physical AI
- DuckDuckGo installs up 30% as users reject Googles AI search
- AI Guardrails Stripped From Meta and Google Models in Minutes
- OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
- Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user
- Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
- Can Companies Insure Against AI's Growing Risks?
- Meta Ends Instagram Encryption, Canvas Hit by Ransomware Attack
- Meta will use AI to analyze height and bone structure to identify if users are underage
- Threads finally brings messaging to the web
- NVIDIA Fast-Forwarded Co-Packaged Optics Five Years Ahead of Schedule, Arriving First With Its Feynman GPUs
- New Mexico Seeks Sweeping Changes to Meta Platforms in Public Nuisance Trial
- Meta Acquires Robotics AI Startup Assured Robot Intelligence for Humanoid Push
- Replit CEO Masad says company will try to stay independent amid rival Cursor sale talks
- Meta acquires robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid platform
April 2026
- Meta threatens to withdraw apps from New Mexico over state age-verification demands
- Amazon and Meta lobby India payments regulator over Google Pay and PhonePe dominance
- Meta has lost $83.5 billion on Reality Labs since 2021
- Apple researchers unveil LaDiR framework that uses parallel diffusion to improve LLM reasoning
- EU says Meta fails to keep children under 13 off Facebook and Instagram
- Paragon Said to Be Uncooperative With Italian Spyware Investigation
- More Than 700 Meta AI Contract Workers in Ireland Face Layoffs
- Australia proposes 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok unless they pay news publishers
- Meta signs deal for space-based solar power to fuel data centers
- China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus
- Italian Spyware Firm IPS Linked to Fake-App Android Surveillance Campaign
- Meta sued in class action over scam ads, internal docs cited
- Meta and Microsoft cut more than 23,000 jobs as AI spending rises
- Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal with AWS for tens of millions of Graviton5 cores
- Thinking Machines Lab hires talent from Meta as AI talent war escalates
- Meta and Microsoft cuts of more than 20,000 jobs renew fears of AI-driven labor disruption
- Oklo partners with Nvidia and Los Alamos on AI-driven nuclear infrastructure
- Meta to Cut 10% of Workforce, About 8,000 Employees
- Meta to cut 8,000 jobs in latest restructuring push toward AI
- Meta to lay off 10% of staff, about 8,000 workers, in May
- Meta installs employee tracking tool to train AI agents
- Gas-Powered Data Center Projects Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
- Meta Signs 1GW Long-Duration Energy Storage Deal with Noon Energy
- Tencent Launches International Beta for QClaw AI Agent
- Meta to capture employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training
- Meta partners with CBRE to train data center technicians in new workforce program
- Consumer Federation of America sues Meta over scam advertisements
- Homeland Security developing smart glasses with facial recognition for ICE agents
- Jeff Bezos close to $10B funding for AI lab Project Prometheus
- Instagram bug turned HDR photos black and white for some users
- Tech CEOs explore AI avatars and direct-report systems to expand managerial presence
- Dubai police arrest airline worker after accessing private WhatsApp group with bomb damage photos
- Developer tooling startup Expo raises $45M Series B for React Native framework
- Meta preparing to add direct messaging to Threads web version
- Three senior OpenAI executives depart as company shuts down Sora and other 'side quests' in enterprise pivot
- Data Center Giants Secure EU Secrecy Provision for Environmental Impact Data
- OpenAI executive departs as company restructures scientific research division
- Hacker who breached US Supreme Court filing system gets probation
- Researchers propose Train-to-Test scaling to optimize AI compute budgets
- Nas Daily's AI Platform Nas.com Raises $27 Million Series A Led by Khosla Ventures
- European Governments Shift from WhatsApp to Local Messaging Apps
- Google Partners with Gucci on AI Smart Glasses for 2027 Launch
- Age verification technologies face privacy and accuracy challenges
- Meta raises Quest VR headset prices due to RAM shortage
- Quant trading firm Jane Street signs $6B AI cloud deal with CoreWeave, makes $1B equity investment
- Snap cuts 1,000 jobs, citing AI advancements for workforce reduction
- Meta captures 70% of social media ad revenue as Facebook, Instagram dominate market
- AI data center startup Fluidstack reportedly in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation
- NAACP sues xAI over unpermitted gas turbines at AI data center
- Hacker breaches A16Z-backed AI startup Doublespeed, attempts to post memes calling VC firm 'antichrist'
- Civil Rights Groups Demand Meta Halt Facial Recognition Smart Glasses Plans
- North Korean APT37 Uses Facebook to Deliver RokRAT Malware
- Apple Testing Four Smart Glasses Designs to Rival Meta Ray-Bans
- IBM pays $17 million to settle DOJ allegations over DEI practices
- Apple and Meta challenge Texas social media age verification laws in court brief
- Estonia opposes EU-wide child social media bans, citing enforcement concerns
- Three OpenAI Stargate Leaders Depart for Meta
- CoreWeave Stock Rises 11 Percent on Anthropic Partnership for Claude AI Infrastructure
- Lumentum AI Demand Backfills Orders Through 2028
- Meta Releases New AI Model, Positioning for Competition
- Meta commits $21 billion to CoreWeave for AI infrastructure through 2032
- CoreWeave Signs $21 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With Meta
- Meta Outlines Long-Term Strategy for Custom AI Training Chips
- Meta Launches Muse Spark, Its First Proprietary AI Model From Superintelligence Labs
- Major tech stocks rally following U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement
- Z.ai Releases GLM-5.1 Language Model Under MIT License
- EU Parliament Blocks Extension of Mass Chat Scanning Program
- Meta employees compete on internal AI token usage leaderboard
- Bezos' Project Prometheus recruits xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI
- Meta to release first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang
- Meta pauses Mercor partnership after LiteLLM-linked data breach
- Meta pauses work with Mercor after $10 billion AI staffing startup confirms security breach
- EU CSAM scanning legislation expires, leaving tech firms in legal limbo
- Meta suspends Mercor partnership following security breach
- Meta suspends AI data operations after training secrets exposed in breach
- Mark Zuckerberg Returns to Writing Code After Two Decades, Submits Diffs and Uses Claude Code Heavily
- Meta's 'Project Walleye' Ohio Data Center Campus Seeks $3 Billion in Loans Covering Building and Power
- Anthropic Forms AnthroPAC, a Bipartisan Employee-Funded Political Action Committee
- Meta, Microsoft, and Google Are Betting Big on Natural Gas to Power AI Data Centers
- H.264 Video Streaming License Fees Jump From $100,000 Cap to $4.5 Million in Restructured System
- Arm Architecture on Track to Power 90% of AI Server Custom Silicon by 2029
- AI Cited as Cause of 25% of US Job Cuts in March as Tech Layoffs Accelerate
- Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Delayed or Canceled as Power and Parts Shortages Bite
- Meta and Google Face Legal Challenges as Court Cases Begin to Erode Section 230 Protections
- Unable to Access Top Chips, Researchers Embrace 'Frugal AI' Built on Smaller Open Models
- Lawsuit Claims Perplexity's Incognito Mode Shared Private Chats With Google and Meta
- US Electrical Equipment Shortage Threatens AI Data Center Buildout as Imports Stall
- Meta Tells Oversight Board It May End Funding After 2028, Sources Say
- Flipboard Launches Surf, a Fediverse Client and Custom Feed Reader for the Open Social Web
- Google Releases Gemma 4 Open AI Models and Switches License to Apache 2.0
- UK Social Media Users Are Posting Less as Passive Video Consumption Rises, Ofcom Reports
- SpaceX Confidentially Files for IPO Targeting $1.75 Trillion Valuation
- Jury Verdicts Against Meta and YouTube Target Platform Design, Not Just Content -- and That Changes the Legal Picture
March 2026
- Meta Faces Thousands More Lawsuits Over Teen Harm After First Major Accountability Ruling
- Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Is Proprietary, Marking a Shift Away From Its Open-Source Strategy
- Big Tech's $635 Billion AI Spending Plans Face Energy Supply Test, S&P Global Warns
- Babel Audio Pays Strangers $17 an Hour to Record Conversations for AI Training Data
- Zuckerberg Returns to Hands-On Content Moderation as Meta's Approach Shifts
- Mercor confirms supply-chain cyberattack tied to LiteLLM compromise
- Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni, Claims Omnimodal LLM Surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on Audio Benchmarks
- Mistral AI Raises $830 Million to Expand Nvidia GPU Data Center Capacity
- Your Photos Are Leaking Your Location. Here's What the Metadata Contains
- Solar Is Winning the Global Energy Race
- Bluesky Launches Attie, an AI App for Building Custom Feeds
- The Texas Lawyer Who Beat Meta and Google. and Said Zuckerberg Was 'Rattled' on the Stand
- California State Court Jury Find Meta and Google Liable for Teen Addiction
- Mark Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk to Offer Help With DOGE
- Meta Agrees to Fund Natural Gas Plants to Power Its Louisiana Data Center
- Trump Plans to Name Zuckerberg, Ellison, and Jensen Huang as US AI Ambassadors
- Zuckerberg Makes Meta Small Business a Company-Wide Priority in Internal Memo
- Trump Administration Settles Murthy v. Missouri, Ending Government Social Media Censorship Case
- Arm Builds Its Own Chip for the First Time, for AI, and Meta Gets Dibs
- Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
- Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout
- Meta Hires Dreamer AI Team, Hugo Barra Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs
- OpenAI Hires Meta VP Dave Dugan to Lead Ad Sales
- Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over after ~$80 billion and a company rename
- Meta's rogue AI agent passed every identity check and exposed sensitive data in a major internal security incident
- Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him be CEO
- Meta removes E2E encryption from Instagram DMs; experts warn first major domino
- Accel partner says AI bubble tendencies forming, fewer winners ahead
- OpenAI targets 8,000 employees by end of 2026 to counter Anthropic
- Goodwin advises Octane AI on Moltbook acquisition by Meta
- Mamba-3
- US committee demands Big Tech share private comms with EU officials
- Meta commits up to $27B to Nebius in AI infrastructure deal
- Quantinuum uses AI agents to discover new quantum optimization algorithms
- Handle Closes $6M Funding Round to Expand AI Agent Platform for Enterprise Operations
- Meta Plans Layoffs Affecting Up to 20 Percent of Workforce
- A "diff" tool for AI: Finding behavioral differences in new models
- Sequoia partner and ex-Meta CRO raising $1B+ to build AI-powered holding company
- Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Viral AI Agent Social Network
- Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn
- Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this 'Stargate Norway' startup hits $14.6B valuation
- OpenAI hardware exec Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
- President Trump Secures Historic Commitment to Keep Electricity Costs Down Amid Data Center Boom
February 2026
- OpenAI hires ex-Meta/AI researcher Ruoming Pang in talent war
- NASA rolls back Artemis II SLS rocket to Vehicle Assembly Building for helium flow repairs
- In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried
- CES 2026 highlights industrial Physical AI and robotics as mainstream business reality
- Microsoft's new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with 'endless AI slop'
- Taalas raises $169M for model-specific AI chips
- Meta scoops up more of Nvidia's AI chip output
- Meta signs multigenerational AI infrastructure pact with Nvidia
- Meta to deploy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs plus Grace CPUs for hyperscale AI data centers
- SMIC warns rushed AI chip capacity buildout risks idle data centers
- [News] US Reportedly Mulls Tariff Exemptions for Amazon, Google, Microsoft on TSMC-Made Chips
- NASA and partners conduct Crew-12 Flight Readiness Review
- Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics