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.
d-Matrix Unveils Raptor 3D-DRAM AI Accelerator With Meta — Aug 29, 2026 — At Hot Chips 2026, d-Matrix and Meta detailed Raptor, an AI inference accelerator that stacks TSMC 4nm logic on custom DRAM at 36-micron pitch for 32...Meta Patches Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Privacy LED Loophole — Aug 29, 2026 — Meta is rolling out a software update that stops Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Smart Glasses from recording if the front-facing capture LED is covered mid-cap...Meta Quietly Becomes One of Microsoft's Largest AI Customers on Azure — Aug 25, 2026 — Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on AI models via Microsoft's Azure Foundry marketplace, running trillions of tokens each week...Big Tech's AI Purchase Commitments Near $1.5 Trillion As Off-Balance Risk Grows — Aug 16, 2026 — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle and Meta have piled up nearly $1.5 trillion in AI infrastructure purchase commitments, layered on top of a...Manus Returns To Independence As China Forces Meta Deal Unwind — Aug 15, 2026 — Butterfly Effect's Manus AI agent will return to operating independently after China ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of the Singapore-domic...Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer, A 30B Agent Model For Your Laptop — Aug 11, 2026 — Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight agentic model under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single consumer GPU with...Meta Ships Muse Code And Muse Spark 1.2 For Repo-Scale Agentic Coding — Aug 9, 2026 — Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Code, a terminal coding agent, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused upgrade that lifts its Artificial...Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 Breached A Real Company During Irregular Cyber Test — Aug 6, 2026 — A Meta AI model briefly accessed and altered systems belonging to an outside company after a misconfigured Irregular test environment exposed it to th...Demis Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO to Chase AGI as Alphabet Chief Scientist — Aug 6, 2026 — Demis Hassabis is handing day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to Koray Kavukcuoglu and becoming Alphabet’s chief scientist, while veterans Jeff Dean...EU AI Act Enforcement Powers Over GPAI Providers Go Live August 2 — Aug 3, 2026 — The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers activate August 2, 2026, unlocking fines of up to 3% of global turnover...Meta Shares Fall 10% As Q2 2026 AI Capex Hits $130-$145B — Jul 31, 2026 — Meta Platforms posted record $60.8B Q2 2026 revenue on July 29 but shares fell ~10% after free cash flow collapsed to $784M and full-year capex was gu...NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance With Microsoft, IBM And SpaceX — OpenAI, Anthropic Sit Out — Jul 29, 2026 — NVIDIA on July 27 unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of nearly 40 chip, cloud, cybersecurity and AI companies contributing open-source...Meta And Anthropic In Talks For $10B Compute Lease Deal — Jul 22, 2026 — Meta Platforms is in early talks to lease as much as $10 billion of AI compute to Anthropic over two years, the latest sign that hyperscaler infrastru...CuspAI Raises $450M Series B, Launches 45-Partner AI Materials Foundry — Jul 20, 2026 — Cambridge-based CuspAI closed a $450M Series B co-led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, with Bezos Expeditions and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund on board, at a...Meta Poaches AWS Compute Chief Dave Brown To Anchor Meta Compute Data Center Push — Jul 20, 2026 — Meta is hiring Dave Brown, the departing AWS senior vice president who ran Amazon's EC2 and AI services business, to help lead its $125-$145 billion a...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...