Meta
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Meta's future hangs in the balance as the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) six-year investigation into its potential monopoly in the social networking market begins this week. -
Microsoft might be scaling back on several data centre projects, but rival Meta is reportedly steaming ahead with plans to spend almost $1 billion on a new project in Wisconsin.
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Meta has opened its barn doors once again to unleash a new herd of Llama models: Llama 4, and this time, they’re multimodal.
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The Internet Society has announced the expansion of its partnership with Meta at MWC, with the pair launching a new Connectivity Co-Funding Initiative aimed at accelerating affordable and sustainable Internet access.
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Meta is reportedly considering a major expansion of its AI infrastructure with a new data centre campus that could cost over $200 billion, according to several sources.
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The wave of job cuts in the tech and telecoms sector shows no signs of slowing, with new data revealing that 26,215 employees have already been laid off in 2025.
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Meta has revealed plans to launch its most ambitious subsea cable project to date: Project Waterworth.
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Meta’s latest wave of job cuts has sparked controversy, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg standing firm on the decision, stating it was necessary to enhance efficiency and remove under-performing employees.
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Even as market jitters over the DeepSeek sell-off dragged down tech stocks, industry giants posted robust earnings this week, with several reporting billion-dollar revenue gains driven by sustained demand for AI and cloud infrastructure.
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Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, claimed the market reaction to DeepSeek was “woefully unjustified” and that open source research powered the Chinese startup's meteoric rise, not its hardware.
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Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, has departed the social media giant, with former White House deputy chief of staff for policy Joel Kaplan taking on the role.
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Meta is not done with the metaverse after it unveiled a new AI model designed to control the behaviour of digital agents in virtual experiences.
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Orange has partnered with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune their open source AI models to support regional languages in Africa, including Wolof and Pulaar.
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Meta is making its Llama family of AI language models available to US government and defence agencies to power security-related AI applications.
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Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Meta is set to take on OpenAI’s Sora model with its own AI video generation system: Movie Gen.
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A legal and commercial dispute between Deutsche Telekom and Meta has escalated, with both companies trading shots over the future of their data traffic arrangements in Germany.
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Gary Waterworth, a stalwart of the subsea industry has died following a battle with cancer.
