Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

Zuck took to Threads to boast about Meta’s AI infrastructure plans. But big facilities need large amounts of energy.

"It'll be a challenge culturally for sure," Dell said of Meta's aggressive hiring of top AI talent with huge signing bonuses.

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the “entire PlayAI team” will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.)

AI-focused crypto tokens jumped 5% overnight, pushing the sector’s market cap to $29.6 billion, according to CoinGecko. The move comes amid a surge of AI and data infrastructure announcements from major U.S. tech firms, sparking renewed investor enthusiasm across both equity and token markets.

Meta PlatformsMETA Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's big AI spending plan shows confidence in the social media giant's current trajectory but also ups the stakes for the company's upcoming second quarter earnings report,

The tech giant fixed the security flaw, netting a security researcher $10,000 for privately disclosing the bug.

TheStreet. Catastrophic forgetting. Don't worry. I am not talking about politics. Catastrophic forgetting is a “lovely” feature of deep neural networks. They overwrite old knowledge when learning new things.