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Meta rolls out in-house AI chips weeks after massive Nvidia, AMD deals
Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026. Courtesy of Meta Meta on Wednesday revealed four custom, in-house chips tailored for artificial intelligence-related tasks as part of the company’s massive data center expansion plans. The specialized silicon is part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, family […]
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Meta gets into social networks for AI agents with acquisition of viral Moltbook platform
The front page of the social media website Moltbook on a computer monitor in Washington D.C., U.S., February 2, 2026. Raphael Satter | Reuters Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral social media platform for artificial intelligence agents, the company confirmed Tuesday. The deal brings Moltbook CEO Matt Schlict and COO Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence […]
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Swedish legaltech Legora hits $5 billion valuation as investors pile money into European AI startups
Swedish legaltech Legora has raised $550 million at a $5.55 billion valuation in a Series D round, the company announced on Tuesday, as investors pile money into European AI startups. The round was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, ICONIQ, Redpoint Ventures and Y Combinator. New investors […]
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OpenAI to buy cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to better safeguard AI agents
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI said Monday that it is acquiring the cybersecurity startup Promptfoo, which provides tools to help safeguard and test complex artificial intelligence systems. The Sam Altman-led firm did not disclose the […]
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepping back, former WordPress parent chief Toni Schneider named interim boss
CEO, Bluesky Social Jay Graber speaks on stage during 2025 Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit & Gala at Jacob Javits Center on June 5, 2025 in New York City. Eugene Gologursky | Getty Images Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said Monday that she will be stepping down and transitioning to the company’s chief innovation officer. […]
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Anthropic was the Pentagon’s choice for AI. Now it’s banned and experts are worried
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Last August, Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael, a former Uber executive and attorney, took on the added role of overseeing the Defense Department’s artificial intelligence portfolio. A […]
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Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled
Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing […]
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OpenAI hardware leader resigns after deal with the Pentagon
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Caitlin Kalinowski, who oversaw hardware at OpenAI, announced her resignation on Saturday, citing concerns about the company’s agreement with the Department of Defense. In a social media post on X, Kalinowski wrote that OpenAI did not take enough time before agreeing to deploy its AI models on the […]
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Palantir rallies 15% for the week as Iran war boosts prospects, muting Anthropic concern
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Palantir was an outlier in a tough week for the stock market, as the provider of software and services to the U.S. government saw its stock rally 15% following the U.S. […]
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AI’s got a gender gap: Women are more skeptical
The logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024. Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images The artificial intelligence craze faces a significant gender gap, with more men showing enthusiasm about the technology, […]
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