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Inside Trump’s Private Dinner with Top AI Leaders

The White House held a private dinner last Thursday with some of the most powerful people in artificial intelligence. Executives from Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, OpenAI, AMD, Oracle, and ...Full Article

Meta Picks Up Voice Startup Play AI as It Rebuilds Around GenAI

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup known for ultra-realistic and emotionally rich voice generation, as part of its broader push to build its AI infrastructure. According to an ...Full Article

The Superintelligence Lab That Could Define Meta’s Future

At first glance, the recent creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs, or MSL, might seem like yet another tech giant staking a claim in the AGI race. But the moves ...Full Article

Can AI Cure Disease Before It Strikes? The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Thinks Virtual Cells Hold the Answer

What if we could stop cancer, heart disease, or Alzheimer’s before the first symptoms ever appear? That’s the question guiding ongoing efforts at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to reshape ...Full Article

Meta Unleashes New Llama 4 AI Models

Meta has released the first two models from its Llama 4 suite: Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout. The Maverick model is designed to be a “workhorse” for ...Full Article