A new report has revealed that arms dealers linked to Yemen’s Houthi rebels are openly using social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Meta’s WhatsApp to traffic weapons, some labeled as U.S. government property. This activity appears to violate the platforms’ own policies against weapons sales.

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

Meta Platforms is seeking to raise $29 billion from private capital firms to build artificial intelligence data centers in the U.S., the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Meta Platforms is investing heavily in AI capabilities, with plans for multi-gigawatt data centers and anticipated growth in AI-powered advertising.

Meta said it planned to spend $60–65 billion in AI-related capital expenditures this year — up from $35–40 billion in 2024.

Meta just invested more than $14 billion into data labeling start-up Scale AI, acquiring a 49% equity stake in the process.

The US company Meta is recruiting top AI experts and wants to invest "hundreds of billions of US dollars" in data processing to build superintelligence.

"We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, Meta's social media platform. "We're building multiple more titan clusters

Meta said it would raise its capital-spending plans for the year to a range of $64 billion to $72 billion, up from $60 billion to $65 billion previously, to include more data centers and higher ...