On one hand, the company secures massive $3.3 billion tax breaks to build a new Louisiana data center; on the other – it prepares to lay off roughly 8,000 employees. Meta is clearly betting everything on artificial intelligence development, offloading the costs of this transformation onto American taxpayers and its own workforce as internal morale hits rock bottom.
Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
An experienced journalist and editor passionate about new technologies, computers, and scientific discoveries. He strives to bring a unique perspective to every topic. A law graduate.
Flashing popular hand gestures for selfies could cost us our biometric data. As reported by The Korea Herald, a new generation of AI tools can easily reconstruct fingerprints from ordinary photos posted online.
With the iOS 26.5 update, Apple is rolling out historic changes for users in the European Union. Pressured by the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Cupertino company is granting third-party manufacturers access to features previously reserved exclusively for its own AirPods and Apple Watches.
If you ask a chatbot about politics, its answer will largely depend on the language you use. Researchers from top US universities have published a report showing that authoritarian governments are successfully influencing global AI models by flooding the internet with state-controlled media.
Google is officially announcing a new category of laptops – Googlebooks. Powered by a DeepMind-developed system codenamed “Aluminium OS,” the devices will offer deep integration with Android and use Gemini AI as the foundation of their interface.
Internal artificial intelligence usage stats at Amazon might be heavily skewed. According to recent reports, corporate employees are mass-assigning pointless tasks to the company’s MeshClaw assistant simply to boost their numbers on token-usage leaderboards and score points with management.
Mark Zuckerberg is facing a wave of outrage within his own ranks. Meta’s team is accusing management of unprecedented surveillance, tracking every click, screenshot, and mouse movement. These tools are being used to train artificial intelligence designed to automate company processes shortly before a planned wave of thousands of layoffs.
The rise of AI has handed cybercriminals the ultimate manipulation tool. Experts are sounding the alarm over a drastic spike in scams across Michigan. Criminals are successfully leveraging deepfake technology and audio cloning to impersonate loved ones and extort money from victims.
The CEO of OpenAI believes a user’s age brutally dictates how they use artificial intelligence. While older generations treat ChatGPT merely as a modern Google replacement, young adults and college students entrust the algorithms with critical life decisions, treating the bot as their digital operating system.
CAS Cold Atom Technology, a firm tied to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has unveiled the Hanyuan-2 – a machine billed as the world’s first dual-core quantum computer. The design is meant to eliminate the need for extreme cooling, but Western analysts are calling out a complete lack of independent testing, noting that verified machines of this kind have been operating in American corporate labs for years.