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announced an expanded agreement with OpenAI to power the training of its most advanced next-generation models, reinforcing its position as the essential cloud platform for the most demanding AI workloads. In March 2025, CoreWeave announced an initial agreement with OpenAI with a contract value up to $11.9 billion, followed by an expanded agreement worth up to $4 billion in May 2025. The agreement announced today brings the total contract value with OpenAI up to approximately $22.4 billion.

Meta Superintelligence Labs Superintelligence: It means an A.I. that's not only as smart as humans, it's supposedly even smarter. The guy who coined the term superintelligence thought it would probably lead to the extinction of the human race. Mark Zuckerberg thinks it will lead to lots and lots of money. At Meta, we believe in putting the power of superintelligence in people's hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.

An internal Meta document obtained by Business Insider reveals the latest guidelines it uses to train and evaluate its AI chatbot on one of the most sensitive online issues: child sexual exploitation. The guidelines, used by contractors to test how Meta's chatbot responds to child sexual exploitation, violent crimes, and other high-risk categories, set out what type of content is permitted or deemed "egregiously unacceptable."

The subscription will cost £2.99 per month on web browsers or £3.99 on iOS and Android devices for the first account, with discounted rates available for each additional account linked through Meta's account centre. The company explained that the differential pricing reflects platform fees charged by Apple and Google. Personal data will not be used for ad targeting if a user subscribes, with the company reiterating that it does not sell personal data to advertisers.

the thing that I want to stay out of is partisan politics

A former Meta executive who wrote an explosive expose making allegations about the social media company's dealings with China and its treatment of teenagers is said to be on the verge of bankruptcy after publishing the book. An MP has claimed in parliament that Mark Zuckerberg's company was trying to silence and punish Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Meta's precursor, Facebook, after her decision to speak out about her time at the company.

"When the chef said 'hey Meta, start Live AI,' it started every single Meta Ray-Ban's Live AI in the building," said Bosworth. "We had routed Live AI traffic to our dev server, in theory, to isolate it, but we had done it for everyone in that building on those access points. We DDoS'd ourselves, basically."

"If we end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars, I think that that is going to be very unfortunate, obviously," he said. "But what I'd say is I actually think the risk is higher on the other side." Zuckerberg said that if a company builds too slowly and artificial superintelligence arrives sooner than expected, it'll be "out of position on what I think is going to be the most important technology that enables the most new products and innovation and value creation and history."

One was a fairly traditional super PAC, announced via a splashy press release, with multiple major industry players planning to donate over $100 million to boost AI-friendly candidates across the country. The other was far more unusual. Meta had quietly filed to create the Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across (Meta) California, a state-only super PAC that would allow Meta to spend its own money to run political ads on behalf of their AI interests - and only their interests.

The FTC inquiry seeks to understand what steps, if any, companies have taken to evaluate the safety of their chatbots when acting as companions, to limit the products' use by and potential negative effects on children and teens, and to apprise users and parents of the risks associated with the products.

Meta, the social media giant led by Mark Zuckerberg, is preparing to open its first physical store in London as part of a push to drive sales of its virtual and augmented reality devices. Property sources said the company is exploring Oxford Street as the likely location for a permanent flagship space where shoppers can try out products such as the Meta Quest headset and Ray-Ban smart glasses. The move would mark Meta's first bricks-and-mortar presence in the UK.