Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI ...
TechRepublic

Meta Plans AI Pendant, New Smart Glasses in ‘Wearables for Work’ Expansion

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant as part of a broader wearable hardware push that includes smart glasses and workplace tools. The next front in Meta’s AI hardware push could be a pendant ...
CNBC

Mark Zuckerberg says a Meta cloud computing business 'definitely on the table'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company could enter the cloud computing market if it overspends on data centers and has excess capacity. "It's definitely on the table," Zuckerberg said at Meta''s ...
Yahoo

North Georgia neighbors say data center responsible for dirty well water

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The federal Environmental Protection Agency is promising to look into reports of dirty well water in the area around a new data ...
NOLA.com

Richland Parish gets Meta's first sales tax payment. It's hefty.

Recently, the Richland Parish Tax Commission, the office that acts as the parish’s Sales and Use Tax Office, got a single sales tax payment for $22,406,676.75. That is more than the total of most of ...
SiliconANGLE

Meta shifts 7,000 employees into four new AI units ahead of mass layoffs

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly reassigning about 7,000 workers into new artificial intelligence roles as part of the broader restructuring that brings layoffs of roughly 8,000 staff into effect on ...
Futurism

OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A new ...
Wired

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

Meta’s decision to track employee keystrokes and mouse data is causing an uproar within the company. “Selfishly, I don't want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy,” wrote ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Meta Taps Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan for New Data Center Deal

Meta Platforms Inc. is working on a financing package for a data center in El Paso, Texas, that could total roughly $13 billion, underscoring Big Tech’s growing reliance on debt to bankroll the ...
Seeking Alpha

Meta ramps up AI spending to chase rivals, but questions over ROI weigh -- analysts

Meta Platform (META) is ramping up its investment in artificial intelligence in an ambitious attempt to catch up with rivals Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL) and capture a greater share of a ...
The New York Times

Crop Undercount Raises Questions About Reliability of U.S.D.A. Data

Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said. By Kevin Draper Reporting from Kansas City, Mo. The ...
Los Angeles Times

Meta seeks to power data centers with energy beamed from space

Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space, taking a novel approach to meeting its insatiable demand for electricity. The company ...