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Meta is slowing down terms that publishers feared would open their sites to AI training. Backlash worked this time, but the underlying question of consent is still unanswered.
Meta rebuilt the first stage of its ad machine to score every eligible ad at more than a billion per second, an engineering feat that makes ad targeting cheaper, sharper and harder to escape.
Meta is testing a cute pixel pet that wants to hear about your day, and we think the cuteness is the point and the problem.
After eight years at Meta, most recently at Meta Superintelligence Labs, Rohit Patel is launching Ndoc with a three-person team. Its documents expose the citations and Python behind every number, and it plans an open browser-readable format.
A one-day, six-agent bake-off shows always-on assistants have finally become useful, but the winner costs $100 a month and every one of them wants the keys to your inbox.
An AI agent that never gets bored broke a simple 20-minute cart hold, and The RealReal's fix shows how fast retailers are rewriting the rules for automated shoppers.
Meta is betting that open, Ethernet-based networking can wire together gigawatt-scale AI clusters, and it is giving away pieces of the stack to make that bet stick.
A 2-bit, 7.9 GB build of Qwen3.8-27B claims it calls tools as well as the full model, and the most useful part of this walkthrough is how it checks that claim instead of repeating it.
Meta blinked on its business terms after publishers in the US, EU and UK pushed back, but a three-week delay to explain the rules is not the same as changing them.
Meta removed the word "training" from its business terms, but lawyers say broad words like "develop" still leave room to use scraped news sites for AI.
Meta wants billions of personal agents buying and negotiating with each other, and its CFO's message to anyone uneasy was essentially to get used to it.
Meta is creating non-voting stock to fund its AI spending, which gives it more money to work with and leaves shareholders with no more say than before.