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Arm secures Meta as first customer in chip push, challenging industry giants – Computerworld
Arm’s business shift mirrors Nvidia’s model, where chip designs are developed in-house but actual manufacturing is outsourced to foundries like TSMC. This approach allows Arm to enter new markets while reducing capital expenditure on chip fabrication. However, the move could create tensions with long-time partners like Apple, Qualcomm, and Nvidia, who must now consider whether their reliance on Arm’s technology…
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7 reasons why Ray-Ban Meta glasses are my go-to wearable for long runs
Running has always been one of my favorite activities. I ran my first marathon when I was 13 years old and haven’t stopped. My nickname was “Wheels” in high school because I was always on the go— hitting the pavement, trails or track. Still, I relish the opportunity to connect with nature, challenge myself, and well, you get the idea.…
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Meta CTO says the company is working to ‘catch’ leakers
During a Q&A with employees earlier this week, one of Meta’s top executives gave an ominous warning. After lamenting “a tremendous number of leaks” from inside the company, CTO Andrew Bosworth said that, while he didn’t want to “ruin the surprises,” the company was “making progress on catching people.” Since Mark Zuckerberg’s comments at a recent all-hands meeting were published,…
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Meta promises it won’t release dangerous AI systems – Computerworld
According to a new policy document from Meta, the Frontier AI Framework, the company might not release AI systems developed in-house in certain risky scenarios. The document defines two types of AI systems that can be classified as either “high risk” or “critical risk.” In both cases, these are systems that could help carry out cyber, chemical or biological attacks.…
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Mark Zuckerberg tells Meta employees to ‘buckle up’ in internal meeting
Tensions were high inside Meta ahead of Mark Zuckerberg’s first all-hands meeting of the year. Employee-submitted questions for the CEO touched on a couple of big themes: concerns about his announcement that “low-performers” would be let go on February 10th, his MAGA-fueled changes to Meta’s content moderation policies and DEI programs, and his comment to Joe Rogan about wanting more…
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Mark Zuckerberg tells Meta investors to not worry about DeepSeek
That was CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s message to investors during his company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. During the Q&A portion of the call with Wall Street analysts, Zuckerberg fielded multiple questions about DeepSeek’s impressive AI models and what the implications are for Meta’s AI strategy. He said that what DeepSeek was able to accomplish with relatively little money has “only…
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Meta Ray-Bans Live AI hands-on: a solution looking for a problem
Here’s the scene: I’m wearing Meta’s latest Ray-Ban glasses with a new feature called Live AI, which can answer questions about the world around you. I’m preparing for a four-hour road trip to my in-laws for the Christmas holiday. I’m preplanning the next day’s breakfast because I’m 99.9 percent certain I will have no brain cells to concoct an edible…
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Meta wants everyone to know that it, too, is investing a lot in AI
In his Facebook post this week, Zuckerberg wrote that Meta will also “significantly” grow out its AI teams and will build an “AI engineer” AI agent that will contribute code to Meta’s R&D efforts. Planned investments for this year already represent a 50% increase over the company’s 2024 spending, and Zuckerberg noted, “we have the capital to continue investing in…
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OpenAI’s Project Stargate sparks reactions from Microsoft, Meta CEOs
“All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.” Rarely does a one-liner so perfectly capture the state of the moment. Here, you have Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saying he’s “not in the details” about Stargate, the supposedly multi-hundred-billion AI infrastructure project driven by his marquee investment, OpenAI. Nadella not being read in on the nebulous details of Stargate…
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Samsung and Meta are reportedly thinking about putting cameras in earbuds — I don’t know why
“Feature creep” is defined on Wikipedia as “excessive ongoing expansion or addition of new features in a product.” It goes on to demonstrate the problems, as “these extra features go beyond the basic function of the product and can result in software bloat and over-complication, rather than simple design.” It’s something I see all the time in the best wireless…
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