Meta Platforms News Latest Meta Platforms news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Meta Platforms is the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and is investing heavily in humanoid robotics, with acquisitions like Assured Robot Intelligence joining its Superintelligence Labs and Robotics Studio teams.
Auger Lands $50M Series B To Put AI Agents In Charge Of Corporate Supply Chains — Jul 20, 2026 — Bellevue-based Auger, founded by former Amazon consumer chief Dave Clark, has raised a $50M Series B led by Eclipse to scale an autonomous supply chai...White House Launches AI Cybersecurity Coordination Group With Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta And Nvidia — Jul 19, 2026 — The Trump administration has formally stood up an AI-cybersecurity coordination group that pulls in Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia and Reflection AI...Meta Buys Assured Robot Intelligence To Anchor Humanoid Foundation Model Push — Jul 18, 2026 — Meta has quietly acquired robotics foundation-model startup Assured Robot Intelligence, folding co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang into Meta S...Meta And Anthropic In Talks For $10 Billion Two-Year Compute Lease — Jul 18, 2026 — Meta Platforms and Anthropic are in early talks over a two-year compute lease worth up to $10 billion, with the AI lab paying Meta in monthly incremen...Nebius Signs $1B+ Reflection AI Compute Deal Through 2029 — Jul 15, 2026 — Amsterdam-based Nebius Group will sell Reflection AI more than $1 billion of Nvidia GB300 capacity through 2029, adding a second nine-figure customer...Augmodo Bags $21M To Push Its Smartbadge Spatial AI Beyond Retail — Jul 14, 2026 — Seattle spatial AI startup Augmodo has raised $21 million led by TQ Ventures at a $350 million valuation to move its wearable Smartbadges out of groce...Meta Doubles Louisiana AI Cluster To 5 GW, Lifts Richland Parish Bill To $50B — Jul 14, 2026 — Meta says its Hyperion supercluster in Richland Parish, Louisiana will grow to 5 GW and cost more than $50 billion, nearly doubling its original 2 GW...Meta's Fourth-Gen MTIA AI Chip Enters TSMC Production in September — Jul 13, 2026 — Meta will begin manufacturing its fourth-generation MTIA AI accelerator at TSMC in September, per an internal memo, as it doubles compute to 14 GW by...Meta Bets CA$13B on Sturgeon County for 1GW Canadian AI Data Centre — Jul 10, 2026 — Meta will spend more than CA$13 billion on a 1-gigawatt AI data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta - its largest facility outside the United States an...NVIDIA Ships First Vera Rubin AI Racks to Hyperscalers in July — Jul 6, 2026 — NVIDIA has begun July shipments of its Vera Rubin NVL72 AI platform to Microsoft, Google, AWS, Meta, Oracle and CoreWeave, with mass production rampin...Meta Picks Samsung Foundry's 2nm to Build MTIA in $6.5B Deal — Jul 6, 2026 — Meta will fabricate its next-generation MTIA AI accelerator at Samsung Foundry on 2nm in an order worth over $6.5 billion, breaking a two-generation T...Meta Preps 'Meta Compute' Cloud to Rent Out Excess AI GPU Capacity — Jul 6, 2026 — Meta is building a cloud unit dubbed Meta Compute to rent out surplus AI compute, taking on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure and lifting its shares more th...OpenAI Floats 5% US Government Stake Ahead of IPO — Jul 5, 2026 — OpenAI is in early-stage talks with the Trump administration about granting the US government a 5% equity stake, modeled on Alaska's oil-wealth fund,...Meta's In-Training 'Watermelon' Model Catches Up to GPT-5.5 — Jul 5, 2026 — Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang told employees that the company's next frontier model, codenamed Watermelon, now matches OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on int...Qualcomm Signs Meta for Dragonfly C1000 Data Center CPU Deal — Jun 28, 2026 — Qualcomm has signed Meta as the first announced customer for its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU, a multi-generation agreement anchoring its push into...PSYONIC and ABB Robotics Team Up to Give Cobots a Human Touch — Jun 16, 2026 — ABB Robotics and PSYONIC are combining the GoFa cobot with the multi-touch Ability Hand to train robots using real tactile data from human prosthetic...Meta and RWE Sign 298 MW Rabbit's Foot Solar PPA, Pushing US Partnership Past 872 MW — Jun 15, 2026 — Meta has expanded its US clean energy footprint with a long-term corporate power purchase agreement for RWE's 298 MWac Rabbit's Foot Solar project in...Meta Begins Unwinding $2B Manus Deal, Firewalls Data Under Beijing Pressure — Jun 12, 2026 — Meta has erected a firewall between itself and Chinese-founded agentic AI startup Manus, barring data access and 'sunsetting' the platform as Beijing...Meta Lands First India AI Data Center With 168MW Reliance Jamnagar Lease — Jun 10, 2026 — Meta will lease 168 MW of capacity at a built-to-suit AI data center that Reliance Industries will construct in Jamnagar, Gujarat, marking Meta's firs...Meta Pushes Back Muse Spark Developer API Again With No Firm Launch Date — Jun 5, 2026 — Meta's Muse Spark API is now nearly two months past its promised April launch, with the company telling partners it will ship in June even as Wall Str...