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

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.
The New York Times

Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg

The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights. By Alexandra Alter Five major publishers — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, ...
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 Clarion-Ledger

Meta quietly enters the Mississippi data center economy. See where

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is investing in a new data center in Meridian, Mississippi. The investment is part of a larger $100 million project by Corderill, LLC at the Compass ...
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 ...
TechCrunch

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon ...
Seeking Alpha

Meta to conduct job cuts, close open roles amid AI, efficiency push -- report

Meta Platforms (META) has confirmed to its employees that it will conduct job cuts next month and will close 6,000 open roles in an effort to increase efficiencies and offset heavy spending on its ...
Technical

For FSH Technologies founder Lilly Chen, Philly is where tech gets practical

Philly Builds is a guest post series profiling local founders and sharing why they chose Philadelphia as the place to launch and grow their startups. This edition is by Erin Feeney, president and ...
News on 6

Gov. Stitt announces Meta behind Tulsa data center known as ‘Project Anthem’

Meta confirmed on Tuesday that it is behind the long-anticipated “Project Anthem” development in east Tulsa, a data center project that has drawn both support and opposition from the community. The ...
Ars Technica

Report: Meta will train AI agents by tracking employees’ mouse, keyboard use

Meta will begin tracking the mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes of its US employees to generate high-quality training data for future AI agents, Reuters reports. The news organization cites ...
The Next Web

Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid

In summary: Meta has hired five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup built by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, after she rejected a reported $1 billion acquisition offer. The most ...