Meta is giving its AI assistant a better “memory” in an effort to make the chatbot more useful. The company’s latest AI update allows the assistant to “remember certain details that you share with it in 1:1 chat” and uses your past activity on Facebook and Instagram to make more personalized recommendations.

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media company plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year alone to build on its artificial intelligence efforts.

Midlevel staff are often the first targets of corporate downsizing efforts, but Meta’s plan to replace an entire tier of people with AI is a new wrinkle on an old story.

Autonomous software engineering agents will take over significant programming tasks, predicts Meta's CEO. And he's counting on Llama to achieve that goal.

Along with these “memories,” Meta AI on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram will deliver “a greater level of personalization” using information from your accounts on each platform, including your age, gender, and “interests based on your activity,” according to Meta’s support page.

DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based startup founded in 2023, shot to the top of Apple’s App Store free app chart after releasing a new open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI's work. Its website was hit by outages amid a spike in interest.

Revenue grows to $48.4 billion, helping fuel the chief executive’s bets on augmented reality and artificial intelligence.

The qualitative parallels between Monday’s artificial intelligence bust and the one that hit wildly free-spending telecommunications firms some 25 years ago are uncanny. The quantitative resemblance is mostly hallucinated.

Stocks tumbled after a Chinese AI startup said its models can compete with the likes of ChatGPT and other U.S.-based models at a fraction of the cost.

Privacy experts note that Meta ‘s approach to AI memory includes robust security measures to protect user data. The company has implemented encryption protocols and data retention policies that comply with global privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA.

Microsoft alone is projecting $80 billion of infrastructure spend for data centers in 2025; meanwhile, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are leading the newly announced Stargate initiative under President Trump -- a project aiming to invest $500 billion into AI frameworks over the coming years.