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Even as market jitters over the DeepSeek sell-off dragged down tech stocks, industry giants posted robust earnings this week, with several reporting billion-dollar revenue gains driven by sustained demand for AI and cloud infrastructure. -
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, claimed the market reaction to DeepSeek was “woefully unjustified” and that open source research powered the Chinese startup's meteoric rise, not its hardware.
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Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, has departed the social media giant, with former White House deputy chief of staff for policy Joel Kaplan taking on the role.
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Meta is not done with the metaverse after it unveiled a new AI model designed to control the behaviour of digital agents in virtual experiences.
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Orange has partnered with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune their open source AI models to support regional languages in Africa, including Wolof and Pulaar.
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Meta is making its Llama family of AI language models available to US government and defence agencies to power security-related AI applications.
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Online platforms in the European Union have until three months today to report their number of users.
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Turkcell is using new technology from the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) that allows the operator to upgrade its data centre capacity.
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Meta will once again expand its data centre in Sarpy County, the company announced on Facebook.
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Ireland’s privacy regulator has doubled down on its order to stop media service traffic to the US from Facebook and Instagram.
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Founding members, which include the likes of Epic Games, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Qualcomm, confirm the launch of the Metaverse Standards Forum.
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India’s financial regulator has fined Reliance Industries, the owner of Jio, for failing to announce Facebook’s US$5.7 billion investment. Two compliance officers were also fined.
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Seventy companies from the data centre industry have promised to reduce carbon in digital infrastructure materials, products and power – only six weeks after the campaign started.
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Meta is to invest more than US$800 million in a new data centre that it said will be the "first of its kind in Missouri".
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Aqua Comms, Bulk Fiber Networks (Bulk) and Meta have completed the construction of the Havhingsten cable system.
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Meta has announced plans for significant infrastructure and people investment in Spain, as part of its plans to deliver the next phase of the internet, also known as the Metaverse.
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CommScope has become the latest name to join Meta Connectivity's Evenstar initiative, which is working build general-purpose RAN reference designs for 4G and 5G networks in the Open RAN ecosystem.
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