Meta smart glasses with Oakley and Prada, extending Luxottica deal

Meta smart glasses with Oakley and Prada, extending Luxottica deal

Meta is expanding its AI-powered smart glasses lineup through an extended partnership with EssilorLuxottica, introducing new versions under the Oakley and Prada brands, building on the success of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses launched in 2023. Here’s a detailed overview: Key Details of the Partnership and Products Market Context and Competition Social Media and Public Sentiment … Read more

Scale AI Founder Wang Joins Meta in Groundbreaking $14 Billion AI Deal

Scale AI Founder Wang Joins Meta in Groundbreaking  Billion AI Deal

📰 Scale AI Founder Wang Exits for Meta in Landmark $14B AI Strategy [Scale AI founder Wang], 28, has officially announced his departure as CEO of Scale AI following a transformative $14.3 billion deal that sees Meta acquiring a 49% stake in the data‑labeling powerhouse. The move marks one of the largest AI acquisitions in recent … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users

Meta AI Surges to 1 Billion Monthly Active Users, Zuckerberg Eyes Monetization MENLO PARK, Calif. – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on May 28, 2025, that Meta AI, the company’s artificial intelligence assistant, has reached a milestone of 1 billion monthly active users across its family of apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. The … Read more

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show gen AI tampered with ‘at will’

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show gen AI tampered with ‘at will’

Grok’s ‘White Genocide’ Glitch Exposes AI Vulnerability to Tampering San Francisco, Might 18, 2025 – A current incident involving xAI’s Grok chatbot, which repeatedly injected false claims about “white genocide” in South Africa into unrelated person queries, has raised alarm concerning the ease with which generative AI might be manipulated. The episode, attributed to an … Read more

Databricks is buying database startup Neon for about $1 billion

Databricks is buying database startup Neon for about  billion

Databricks Acquires Neon for $1 Billion to Improve AI-Pushed Knowledge Administration SAN FRANCISCO, Might 14, 2025 – Databricks, a number one knowledge analytics and AI platform valued at $62 billion, introduced on Wednesday that it has agreed to accumulate Neon, a San Francisco-based startup specializing in a serverless, cloud-native PostgreSQL database, for about $1 billion. … Read more

Trump’s Trade War Strains Tech Industry’s Advertising Sales in 2025

Trump’s Trade War Strains Tech Industry’s Advertising Sales in 2025

San Francisco, CA – Might 10, 2025 The tech {industry}’s strong internet marketing gross sales, a cornerstone of firms like Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon, are exhibiting indicators of pressure because of President Donald Trump’s commerce battle, notably his sweeping tariffs launched in April 2025. Regardless of sturdy first-quarter earnings reported by these tech giants, warnings … Read more

Sam altman | OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as head of applications

Sam altman | OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as head of applications

Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart, has been appointed because the CEO of Purposes at OpenAI, a newly created function the place she’s going to report on to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Introduced on Could 8, 2025, Simo will transition from Instacart over the subsequent few months and be a part of OpenAI full-time later … Read more

OpenAI considering own social network to compete with Elon Musk’s X

OpenAI considering own social network to compete with Elon Musk’s X

OpenAI Explores Social Community to Rival Elon Musk’s X, Fueled by ChatGPT’s Picture Era Success April 16, 2025 San Francisco, CA – OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is reportedly creating a social media platform to compete with Elon Musk’s X and Meta’s Instagram, based on a number of sources cited by The Verge and confirmed … Read more

Meta debuts new Llama 4 models, but most powerful AI model is still to come

Meta debuts new Llama 4 models, but most powerful AI model is still to come

AI Models, But Most Powerful Version Still Awaited San Francisco, May 15, 2025 – Meta has officially launched its latest generation of artificial intelligence models, Llama 4, marking another leap forward in the company’s open-weight AI strategy. However, the most advanced version of the model—expected to rival top-tier competitors like OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini Ultra—remains in … Read more

Silicon Valley return on Trump bet: Plunging valuations, delayed IPOs

Silicon Valley return on Trump bet: Plunging valuations, delayed IPOs

San Francisco, April 5, 2025 – Silicon Valley’s high-stakes wager on President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is off to a rocky start, with tech valuations cratering and IPO dreams deferred just months into his second term. Trump’s April 2 tariff bombshell—10% on all imports, with 24% on Japan, 46% on Vietnam, and 54% on China—unleashed … Read more