Oracle and OpenAI scrap deal to expand flagship Texas data centre

ft - Meta in talks to take up additional computing capacity that the ChatGPT maker will not take up

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Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports

6 hrs / reddit / /u/Moonskaraos

Oracle drops after report that it and OpenAI scrapped plans to expand a data center site in Texas

6 hrs / sherwood / Luke Kawa

Oracle and OpenAI drop Texas data center expansion plan

6 hrs / reddit / /u/Possible-Shoulder940

Meta allows rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe for a fee

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Meta announced it will permit general-purpose AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp in Europe via its business API for the next 12 months. The company said this policy change is a response to the European Commission’s regulatory process…

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #meta #aiethics #genai #business #instantmessaging #digitalmarketsact #eu #api

Meta Opens WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots in Europe — but Only for a Limited Time

12 hrs / eweek / Kezia Jungco

After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil

13 hrs / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Meta Pauses Ban on Third-Party AI Chatbots on WhatsApp

14 hrs / medianama / Azdhan

Meta (META) Stock: WhatsApp API Now Supports Paid AI Chatbots

17 hrs / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Meta allows rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe for a fee

17 hrs / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

#ai #wearables #dataprivacy #meta #aiethics #camera #privacy #contentmoderation #litigation #digitalprivacy

Meta Sued Over AI Smart Glasses Over Nude Footage Capturing

29 hrs / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Meta hit with a class action lawsuit over smart glasses' privacy claims

32 hrs / engadget / Karissa Bell

Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage

34 hrs / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya

34 hrs / theverge / Emma Roth

Meta's smart glasses raise privacy alarms as data labelers review intimate recordings

37 hrs / techspot

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

38 hrs / theregister / Carly Page

Does The 3D Printing Filament Brand Matter? 5 Things To Consider

38 hrs / bgr

Meta to Open Up WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots for a Fee Following EU Objections

Edith Hancock / wsj - The move come after the European Commission said it could impose a temporary injunction on the company as part of an antitrust probe into its AI policy.

#ai #techpolicy #meta #antitrust #genai #europe #assistant #instantmessaging #digitalmarketsact #eu

AI Chatbots Can Come Back to WhatsApp, If They Pay

34 hrs / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Meta to Open Up WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots for a Fee Following EU Objections

35 hrs / wsj / Edith Hancock

Meta will allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe, but for a fee

36 hrs / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market

37 hrs / techcrunch / Connie Loizos

Meta (META) Stock: WhatsApp Opens to Competing AI Assistants in Europe Under Paid Access Model

38 hrs / parameter / Trader Edge

Meta sends private AI glasses footage to Kenya with few safeguards - and Europe's privacy regulators may come knocking

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - To improve the AI in Meta's smart headset, data workers in Nairobi sift through private recordings from Western households. These include nude scenes, sex videos and bank details.The article Meta sends private AI glasses footage to Kenya with few safeguar…

#ai #ml #wearables #dataprivacy #meta #aiethics #gdpr #europe #privacy #eu

Meta's AI Display Glasses Reportedly Share Intimate Videos With Human Moderators

3 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too

3 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI partner to bring privacy-first, cloud-free AI to smart glasses

3 days / tech / Cate Lawrence

Meta sends private AI glasses footage to Kenya with few safeguards - and Europe's privacy regulators may come knocking

3 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators

3 days / engadget / Steve Dent

South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online — stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders

3 days / tomshardware

Meta starts testing its AI shopping assistant

Mariella Moon / engadget - Meta has started rolling out an experimental AI shopping tool to some users in the US, according to Bloomberg. At the moment, it’s reportedly only showing up on desktop browsers when select users visit Meta AI on the web. They’ll know if they have access …

#ai #ecommerce #meta #genai #business #technology #assistant #advertising

Meta Tests AI Shopping Tool That Uses Location and Gender to Recommend Products

3 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Meta begins testing experimental AI shopping assistant in the US

3 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Meta tests AI-powered shopping search to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini

3 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Meta Tests AI Shopping Tool to Challenge ChatGPT and Gemini

3 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Meta starts testing its AI shopping assistant

3 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Meta Explores AI-Powered Shopping Research Tool

3 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

After ChatGPT and Gemini, Meta AI wants to go shopping for you

3 days / digitaltrends

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms has signed an agreement to rent Google’s tensor processing units through Google Cloud to develop new AI models. The deal marks a major expansion of Google’s TPU commercialization strategy, which previously restricted the chips to its own in…

#ai #cloud #ml #meta #chips #google #genai #business #datacenter

Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPUs in a direct challenge to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google is aggressively moving into Nvidia’s territory by leasing and selling training chips. https://sherwood.news/tech/meta-reportedly-strikes-multi-billion-dollar-ai-chip-deal-with-google-as-it/

7 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

Meta reportedly strikes multi-billion dollar AI chip deal with Google as it struggles to design its own

7 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

7 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Meta scraps advanced AI training chip after design roadblocks

7 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Meta Secures Google TPU Partnership Alongside Nvidia and AMD Chip Contracts

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Instagram Will Notify Parents When Teens Use Search Terms Related to Suicide

Bruce Gil / gizmodo - The new safety feature comes as social media platforms face growing legal pressure over how they affect minors.

#techpolicy #digitalhealth #meta #government #privacy #mentalhealth #contentmoderation #instagram #safety

Instagram will now tell parents about teen searches about self-harm

7 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Instagram Will Notify Parents When Teens Use Search Terms Related to Suicide

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Instagram Will Alert Parents if Teens Repeatedly Search for Self-Harm and Suicide Terms

8 days / cnet / Meara Isenberg

Instagram Will Notify Parents When Teens Use Search Terms Related to Suicide

8 days / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Woman Suing Meta, YouTube Testifies It’s ‘Too Hard to Be Without’ Social Media

8 days / wsj / Laura J. Nelson

In Landmark Trial, Plaintiff Says Social Media Harm Started at Age 6

8 days / nytimes / Eli Tan and Ryan Mac

Meta to Notify Parents of Risky Teen Search Behaviour

8 days / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Instagram to Alert Teens’ Parents of Repeated Self-Harm Searches

8 days / wsj / Mauro Orru

Meta Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Celebrity Impersonation Scams

PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta is suing advertisers who have allegedly impersonated celebrities to defraud consumers. The tech giant announced Thursday (Feb. 26) that it had taken “technical enforcement actions” against the accused scammers, such as suspending their payment method…

#meta #social #aiethics #genai #cybercrime #scam #contentmoderation #litigation #ads #advertising

Meta Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Celebrity Impersonation Scams

8 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta sues advertisers in Brazil and China over 'celeb bait' scams

8 days / engadget / Karissa Bell

Meta reveals huge scammer crackdown

8 days / news.com.au

Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content

Anna Washenko / engadget - Instagram is adding a new alert for the parents of teen users of its social media platform. The network will alert the adult if their child repeatedly searches for terms about suicide or self-harm in a short time frame. From that notification, the parent …

#techpolicy #meta #health #psychology #privacy #contentmoderation #instagram #safety

Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.

8 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Instagram will notify parents if teens 'repeatedly' search terms related to suicide

8 days / abcnews

Instagram to alert parents if teens search for self-harm terms

8 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content

8 days / reddit / /u/DonkeyFuel

Instagram to start parent alerts for teen suicide, self-harm searches as Meta trials continue

8 days / cnbc

Instagram to alert parents when teens search for suicide

8 days / mashable

Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content

8 days / engadget / Anna Washenko

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics

8 days / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content

8 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Instagram to alert parents if teens search for self-harm and suicide content

8 days / bbc

Meta Signs Massive AI Chip Deal with AMD

Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Meta is partnering with AMD to deploy 6 gigawatts of AI power. The deal includes custom MI450 chips and could give Meta a 10 percent stake in AMD by 2026.The post Meta Signs Massive AI Chip Deal with AMD first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

#ai #cloud #semiconductors #ml #meta #chips #gpu #datacenter #amd

White House Weighs Requiring Citizenship Checks for Bank Customers

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta just signed a massive AMD chip deal as it diversifies beyond Nvidia

10 days / qz / Shannon Carroll

AMD (AMD) Stock: Surge Fueled by Meta’s $100B Chip Deal and 6GW AI Buildout

10 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Stocks bounce back powered by tech rebound

10 days / sherwood / Tasha Matsumoto

AMD shares jump 8% on $100B+ AI chip deal with Meta

10 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Why AMD's megadeal with Meta shows Nvidia is still the best game in town

10 days / cnbc

Meta and AMD's Multibillion-Dollar Deal Is All About the AI Chips

10 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

AMD tries out the Kim Kardashian theory of data centres

10 days / ft

Meta Signs Massive AI Chip Deal with AMD

10 days / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

AMD basically copy-pasted its OpenAI deal for Meta, six gigawatts and ten percent equity included

10 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Meta Hopes to Launch Stablecoin Payments Project This Year

PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta is hoping to enter the stablecoin payment space sometime this year, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Feb. 24), citing unnamed sources. The move would happen if the Facebook owner is successful in integrating with a third-party company to facilitate stablec…

#blockchain #crypto #techpolicy #meta #banking #finance #payments #wallet #regulation #crypto

Meta Gets Back into Crypto, Plans Stablecoin Integration Later This Year https://gizmodo.com/meta-gets-back-into-crypto-plans-stablecoin-integration-later-this-year-2000725733

10 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Meta Platforms (META) Stock: Surges as Company Moves to Re-Enter Stablecoin Market in 2026

10 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Meta Gets Back into Crypto, Plans Stablecoin Integration Later This Year

10 days / gizmodo / Kyle Torpey

Meta Hopes to Launch Stablecoin Payments Project This Year

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Facebook owner Meta eyes stablecoin integration this year: report

10 days / theblock / RT Watson

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half of this year

10 days / coindesk / Ian Allison

Someone made an app to warn you if smart glasses are nearby

Andre Revilla / engadget - A new app will notify users if smart glasses are likely nearby. The aptly named Nearby Glasses was developed in response to media coverage outlining how glasses like Meta's Ray-Bans have been used to film people without their consent.As first reported by …

#ar #mixedreality #mobile #meta #camera #apps #gadgets #digitalprivacy

This Meta smartglasses-detecting app is a great model for Apple Glass developers to follow

10 days / appleinsider

Someone made an app to warn you if smart glasses are nearby

10 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

Nearby Glasses

10 days / ycombinator

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

10 days / 404media / Joseph Cox

‘This should terrify you’: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails

Jude Cramer / fastcompany - As built-in AI pops up in more aspects of everyday life, laymen are counting on the experts to keep technology safe to use. But one Meta employee’s misadventure with AI has social media users fearful for the future of AI alignment.Summer Yue is the direct…

#ai #cybersecurity #automation #dataprivacy #techpolicy #meta #aiethics #assistant #safety

‘This should terrify you’: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails

10 days / fastcompany / Jude Cramer

AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

10 days / tomshardware

Meta head Summer Yue loses 200+ emails to rogue OpenClaw agent

10 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

AMD and Meta strike $100 billion AI deal that includes 10% stock deal — 6 gigawatt agreement includes up to 160 million AMD shares

tomshardware - AMD and Meta have announced an AI chips deal thought to be worth more than $100 billion.

#ai #cloud #semiconductors #ml #meta #chips #business #finance #datacenter #amd

Analysts warn: circular financing and heavy dilution risks for AMD (3)
Chips-for-equity: warrants could give Meta up to 10% (4)
Meta diversifies from Nvidia; AMD emerges as key rival (2)
Meta-AMD deal: 6GW MI450 deployment, shipments starting H2 2026 (7)
All Other Stories

10 days / cnbc

Meta-AMD deal: 6GW MI450 deployment, shipments starting H2 2026

Meta and AMD Team Up to Take on Nvidia in Massive AI Chip Deal

10 days / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Stock: AMD Lands Biggest AI Deal Yet With Meta Platforms

10 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Meta Inks AI Agreement With Chipmaker AMD

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta Announces Major Chips-for-Stock Deal With AMD

10 days / nytimes / Adam Satariano and Tripp Mickle

(PR) AMD and Meta Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs

10 days / techpowerup

Meta and AMD Agree to AI Chips Deal Worth More Than $100 Billion

10 days / wsj / Robbie Whelan

Meta agrees multibillion-dollar chip deal with AMD

10 days / ft

All Other Stories

Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity.

10 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement

10 days / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/meta-amd-chips-ai.html

10 days / bsky / @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy / tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy

Another GPUs and warrants deal, like OpenAI. https://sherwood.news/markets/amd-soars-after-striking-deal-meta-ai-chips-100-billion/

10 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

Meta to deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs for AI infrastructure

10 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

Samuel Axon / arstechnica - The company asserts it will continue to make VR headsets, though.

#mobiletech #vr #mixedreality #mobile #meta #business #apps #technology #spatialcomputing #gadgets

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14 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Meta's Metaverse Leaves Virtual Reality

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Zuckerberg grilled about Meta's strategy to target 'teens' and 'tweens'

14 days / reddit / /u/DouglasDriveN

Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

14 days / arstechnica / Samuel Axon

Meta's Pivot From VR Is Happening. Too Bad Glasses Aren't Ready for This Moment

14 days / cnet / Scott Stein

Meta’s metaverse leaves virtual reality

14 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Mark Zuckerberg has testified he reached out to Tim Cook on teen wellbeing as Meta faces a landmark trial alleging its platforms were designed to addict youth.The post Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial appeared first on WinBuzze…

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #law #contentmoderation #litigation #algorithm #safety #timcook

National Parent Teacher Association breaks ties with Meta amid child-safety trials

14 days / cnbc

A new study finds that longer daily social media use was associated with predominantly negative outcomes for 60% of adolescents, but not all platforms are the same. The variances point to the opportunity for more nuanced regulation than blanket bans, writ

14 days / bsky / @techpolicypress.bsky.social / techpolicypress.bsky.social

Apple and Meta Called It Privacy. The Courts Call It Willful Blindness.

14 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare

14 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Researchers Embrace Complexity in Social Media and Teen Mental Health

14 days / techpolicy

Privacy is at the center of child safety accusations against Apple and Meta. Here’s why

14 days / cnbc

Engadget Podcast: Instagram on trial and the RAMaggedon rages on

14 days / engadget / Devindra Hardawar

Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial

14 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

How Meta’s high-stakes trial could have ripple effects across other industries

14 days / fastcompany / Chris Morris

LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to 'grooming and exploitation'

14 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality Labs. While the decision runs counter to Meta's original pl…

#hardware #mobiletech #vr #mobile #meta #apps #spatialcomputing

Meta formally separates Horizon Worlds from Quest VR platform

14 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Meta, after laying off ~10 percent of Reality Labs, closing three VR studios, and stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, is changing Horizon Worlds, which debuted in VR, to be "almost exclusively mobile." But it is still making VR

15 days / bsky / @jaypeters.net / jaypeters.net

Metaverse just went mobile first, leaving VR behind

15 days / digitaltrends

Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first

15 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Meta says VR is still the future, but Worlds is going mobile

15 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR

15 days / theverge / Jay Peters

Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website, according to a company help page. The website will disappear in April, though web users will still be able to send and receive messages within Facebook."After messenger.com goes away, you will be aut…

#meta #business #internet #apps #ux #technology #facebook #instantmessaging

Messenger web users will be redirected to Facebook.com for chats

14 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists

15 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Meta is killing off the Messenger web site

15 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Meta is shutting down Messenger’s standalone website

15 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

Shannon Carroll / qz - In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked