Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong”
Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns
The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country — Meta Platforms is preparing …
Meta says it signed a deal for up to 1GW of space solar energy from Overview Energy, which seeks to beam solar energy to earth and is planning a 2028 demo
Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space …
China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025
Regulators had reviewed whether deal violated Beijing's investment rules — China has blocked Meta's $2bn acquisition …
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs
LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs
Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers
LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140
Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing …
Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers
India is now part of a small group of countries where content takedown notices are complied with immediately …