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Meta makes ‘big bet’ on top leaders with stock options as pressure builds to catch up in AI
Arda Kucukkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Meta is granting stock options to key leaders in an effort to retain talent as pressure intensifies on the company to bolster its position in artificial intelligence. The executives in the incentive plan include CFO Susan Li, technology chief Andrew Bosworth, Chief Product Officer Christopher Cox and operating […]
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Amazon acquires ‘approachable’ humanoid maker Fauna Robotics
Fauna CEO Rob Cochran with a Sprout robot. Courtesy: Fauna Robotics Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup that builds “approachable” humanoid robots for consumers and businesses, the company confirmed Tuesday. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “We are excited about Fauna’s vision to build capable, safe, and fun robots for everyone,” an Amazon spokesperson told CNBC […]
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Pentagon ban of Anthropic faces judge; Claude AI maker seeks injunction
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said Tuesday that the decision by the Pentagon to blacklist Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models “looks like an attempt to […]
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OpenAI shutters short-form video app Sora as company reels in costs
Six months after launching the Sora app and seeing it quickly go viral, OpenAI is shuttering the service, the company said on Tuesday. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” OpenAI wrote in a post on X. “What you made with Sora […]
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Jury reaches verdict in major Meta child safety trial in New Mexico
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18, 2026. Jill Connelly | Getty Images A jury has reached a verdict in a major New Mexico trial in which the state’s attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators. The civil trial, in which […]
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Google partners with Agile Robots, growing its AI robotics footprint
Intrinsic’s flagship product, Flowstate, is a web-based platform that allows users to build robotic applications without having to write thousands of lines of code. Intrinsic Google is adding another robotics partnership to its belt as it leans into robotics as a key bet for artificial intelligence. Agile Robots develops intelligent, sensor-based robotic arms and humanoid […]
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Baltimore is first U.S. city to sue over Grok deepfake porn as legal pressure mounts on Musk’s xAI
The logo of the artificial intelligence company xAI appears on the screen of a smartphone placed on a surface reflecting an abstract blue illustration. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Lawsuits against Elon Musk’s xAI are piling up, with Baltimore becoming the first major U.S. city to file a complaint against the company concerning […]
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Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer
For more than 35 years, Arm Holdings has licensed its instruction sets to the world’s biggest chipmakers and collected royalties on every processor made with its designs. Now the U.K.-based company is making physical silicon of its own for the first time. Arm CEO Rene Haas unveiled his company’s first in-house chip on Tuesday at […]
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Dimon warns on AI job losses, calls for government-business incentives
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., departs the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned that artificial intelligence could cost the U.S. jobs, and suggested the government could create an incentive system for businesses […]
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Micron stock sinks for a fourth straight day despite dominant earnings report
People visit Micron booth during the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) on November 5, 2024 in Shanghai, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Micron‘s blowout second-quarter earnings report fueled by a surge in memory demand hasn’t been a boon for the stock. Since […]
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