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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.
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Mark Zuckerberg is vowing to increase spending on AI, in a bid to make Meta the “leading AI company in the world”, causing its shares to fall by around 12%.
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The European Commission will open five non-compliance investigations into how Apple, Google and Meta comply with its new Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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Meta will partner with Microsoft to give businesses the opportunity to develop their own use cases
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With the “euphoria” surrounding social media platforms, now is the opportune”time to launch a rival to Twitter according to Paolo Pescatore, TMT analyst at PP Foresight.
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Aaron Russell, head of edge production infrastructure and connectivity at Meta, has been named among the honorees in this year’s Capacity Power 100 list. He tells us about his role in this exciting and rapidly developing part of the industry, and what the edge means for Meta’s future.
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center3 and Meta confirm the landing of the 2Africa subsea cable at two of the planned four landing points in Saudi Arabia: Jeddah, and Yanbu.