Meta just detailed an aggressive roadmap for its custom MTIA silicon, planning to launch four new chip generations over the next two years. MTIA 300 is already in production for recommendation training, while the 400, 450, and 500 series will focus heavily on GenAI inference through 2027. By taking an inference-first approach and a modular design that drops into existing racks, Meta aims to ship new chips roughly every six months.
Meta is deploying new AI-powered tools across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger to stop scammers before they strike. WhatsApp now flags suspicious device-linking attempts, Facebook is testing warnings for fishy friend requests, and Messenger is expanding fraud reviews for chats like bogus job offers. Meta is also using AI to catch celebrity-bait and fake brand pages.
Meta just acquired Moltbook, a viral network built specifically for autonomous AI agents, bringing creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into its Superintelligence Labs. The deal equips Meta with tech to verify agent identities and coordinate tasks on their human owners' behalf. Why it matters: Meta wants to turn its classic human friend graph into an "agent graph" before bot-to-bot commerce takes off.
AMI Labs just raised $1.03B at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to build AI that learns from physical reality rather than language. Co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, the startup plans to develop his JEPA architecture while open-sourcing research code. Its first real-world testing partner will be digital health firm Nabla.
Oracle and OpenAI just abandoned plans to expand their flagship AI data center in Abilene, Texas, walking away from 600 megawatts of capacity after financing talks stalled. Meta is already in talks to lease the site from developer Crusoe, with Nvidia actively brokering the deal to keep its chips in the facility.
Meta is facing a U.S. class-action lawsuit alleging that overseas contractors reviewed sensitive footage captured by Ray-Ban AI smart glasses, including intimate moments. The lawsuit targets Meta's "built for privacy" marketing, pointing out users cannot opt out of the data review pipeline. Meta maintains it only reviews media that users explicitly share with Meta AI.
Seven tech giants—including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—just signed a White House pledge committing to cover all grid upgrades and power generation costs tied to their AI data centers. Under the deal, companies must pay for new infrastructure even if their centers don't use the full capacity, aiming to stop household utility bills from spiking. Why it matters: Soaring AI workloads are threatening local power grids, and tech leaders are racing to defuse public backlash before communities block new facilities.
Meta is facing backlash after an investigation revealed outsourced workers in Kenya reviewed sensitive videos—including footage of people undressing and having sex—captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office just announced it is questioning the tech giant over privacy compliance. Why it matters: users think their smart glasses are private, but their raw footage is quietly training someone else's AI model.
Subcontractors at Meta partner Sama in Nairobi are manually reviewing intimate video clips from Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, according to a joint investigation by Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten. Workers reported seeing bank cards, nudity, and bedroom scenes recorded without wearers realizing. While retailers claimed data stays local, network tests confirmed the glasses constantly transmit data to Meta's servers for AI processing.
The White House is pushing Big Tech to stop leaning on the public power grid for the AI boom. Tech giants including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI are set to meet with President Trump on March 4 to sign a pledge committing to build or buy their own power supplies for new AI data centers, aiming to keep electricity bills from spiking for everyday Americans.
AMD just announced a massive multi-year partnership with Meta to deploy up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, kicking off with an initial 1GW rollout in the second half of 2026. The deal includes custom silicon based on AMD’s MI450 architecture, next-gen Venice EPYC CPUs, and performance-based warrants for Meta to acquire up to 160 million AMD shares. Why it matters: Meta is aggressively diversifying away from Nvidia to secure power and slash infrastructure costs.
Meta reportedly considered rolling out facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses during political distractions, letting wearers identify strangers with public Instagram profiles. While the tech has obvious accessibility uses, the covert hardware and Meta's tainted privacy track record are sparking fierce backlash. Why it matters: Impressive hardware can't outrun destroyed public trust.
Meta is reportedly reviving its smartwatch ambitions with an AI- and health-focused wearable code-named Malibu 2, slated for later this year alongside updated Ray-Ban Display glasses. The watch could replace the neural wristband currently used for gesture controls, putting Meta in direct contention with Apple and Google for wrist real estate.
OpenAI just hired Instagram’s longtime partnerships VP Charles Porch to serve as its first-ever VP of global creative partnerships. Porch spent 15 years at Meta wooing icons like Beyoncé and Pope Francis. He is tasked with bridging the trust gap with Hollywood and securing likeness licensing deals for Sora.
Meta just announced a multi-year partnership with NVIDIA to overhaul its AI data center roadmap, securing NVIDIA's next-gen Vera Rubin platform for cutting-edge clusters. The deal also rolls out Spectrum-X Ethernet across Meta's infrastructure and brings confidential computing to WhatsApp private chats. Zuckerberg says the endgame is delivering personal superintelligence to everyone.
Meta was just granted a patent for an AI system that can recreate a deceased person’s online activity. By feeding past posts, chats, and voice notes into an LLM, the system can keep publishing updates and messaging friends in the original user's voice. Meta says it has no current plans to build the tool, though the Black Mirror comparisons are already flying.
Unity just revealed plans to debut a major Unity AI upgrade at GDC in March that can generate full casual games entirely from natural language prompts, eliminating the need for coding. The tool taps frontier models from OpenAI and Meta while embedding Unity's native runtime context. Why it matters: It could turn casual game creation into a prompt-driven process, allowing non-coders to build games from scratch.
Meta just integrated Manus AI into Ads Manager, giving all advertisers access to autonomous agents for report building and audience research. As investors grow uneasy over hundreds of billions poured into AI infrastructure, Meta is pushing to turn its shiny agent tech into immediate ad efficiencies.
Meta is reportedly planning to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses lineup as soon as this year. Codenamed "Name Tag," the AI feature would identify people wearers are connected to or pull info from public Instagram accounts, rather than scanning random strangers. An internal memo suggests Meta hopes current political distractions will ease expected privacy backlash.
Meta just launched Dear Algo on Threads, an AI feature that lets you steer your feed with a simple public post. Type "Dear Algo" along with what you want to see more or less of, and your feed adjusts for the next three days—or repost someone else's prompt to borrow their setup. It is a surprisingly transparent way to hand feed control back to users.
