Old AI is beating new AI. Here's why — and why it matters
Aug 25, 2025 - While billions pour into ChatGPT-style technologies, traditional, less splashy AI continues to power everything from Meta's profits to rocket design
Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg. I’m Gonna Pass.
Aug 1, 2025 - The loyalties and larger-than-life figures prompting some people to turn down insanely lucrative offers
OpenAI Is Shutting Down for a Week
Jul 1, 2025 - In a bid to retain its staffers amid a Meta poaching spree, OpenAI is giving them a mandatory week-long vacation.
Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
Jun 20, 2025 - The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.
Thousands of Koreans were banned from Instagram this week. I was one of them.
Jun 11, 2025 - Thousands of Korean Instagram accounts were deactivated, allegedly due to AI errors, leaving users unable to access their profiles without submitting their IDs.
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Jun 12, 2025 - If you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.
Meta to Pay Nearly $15 Billion for Scale AI Stake and Startup’s 28-Year-Old CEO
Jun 10, 2025 - Meta has agreed to take a 49% stake in data labeling firm Scale AI for $14.8 billion.
Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
Jun 10, 2025 - The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.
Microsoft CEO says as much as 30% of the company’s code is written by AI
Apr. 30, 2025 - CEO Satya Nadella revealed the milestone in a conversation with Meta top boss Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta AI creates speech-to-speech translator that works in dozens of languages
Jan 15, 2025 - Machine-learning system can process words spoken in 101 languages, spitting out voice-synthesized translations in 36 target languages.