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Rather than a custom Arm CPU, like the ones that Microsoft, AWS, and Google designed, Meta tells us the partnership will focus on optimizing the Arm-based silicon that it's already deploying. Like most hyperscalers and cloud providers, Meta is rolling out large quantities of Arm Neoverse cores across its AI datacenters; they just happen to be part of Nvidia's GB200 or GB300 NVL72 rack systems. Each of these racks is equipped with 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 of Nvidia's Neoverse-V2-based Grace CPUs.

Facebook has taken down a "large group page that was being used to dox and target [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents in Chicago," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X Tuesday.

"Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago," Bondi wrote in an X post. Bondi alleged that a "wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs." She added that the DOJ "will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement."

Meta has removed a Facebook page dedicated to tracking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action in Chicago after the Justice Department got involved. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X Tuesday that Facebook had taken down an unnamed "large group page that was being used to dox and target" ICE agents after outreach from the DOJ. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the group, which he did not identify, "was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm." Its removal follows Apple and Google blocking ICE-tracking apps, also following government demands.

Meta is facing a court fight over documents and testimony in a landmark child safety case in New Mexico. In two recent motions, the New Mexico Attorney General's office alleged that Meta has refused to fully produce internal records about its AI chatbots, which reportedly engaged children and teenagers in sexualized conversations. The state also said Meta declined to consent to a subpoena for former company researcher Jason Sattizahn, who claimed that the company's legal team interfered with internal research on youth safety.

The glasses stole the show: When Meta held its annual Connect developer conference last month, the company's new Ray-Ban Display glasses got a lot of attention. Without new hardware to announce, VR took a bit of a backseat. Sure, there was James Cameron, who is helping the company bring 3D movies, shows, and sports events to Quest headsets. But what about that whole metaverse thing? How's that going? To get an update on Meta's efforts to make VR social, I talked to the company's metaverse VP, Vishal Shah.

Meta is ramping up the pressure for its employees to use AI. The Facebook parent company is tracking how extensively its teams are using AI through dashboards it rolled out earlier this year, and it created a game to boost employees' usage, Business Insider has learned. Expectations around AI usage vary by teams. Staff in some departments are encouraged to play with AI tools, while others are being pushed to meet specific targets, according to four current employees.

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.

Earlier today, it was revealed that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, would be rolling out a scheme which allowed users to purchase a monthly subscription to use its social media platforms without the inclusion of personalised adverts. The move follows increasing concerns about the ethics of targeted advertising, which is where personalised adverts are shown to people based on websites they visit - allowing people the option to opt out of having their data used for marketing purposes.

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."

The entire Meta superintelligence lab could sit on a Boeing 737 Max - and still have seats to spare. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg likens it more to a boat where seats are extremely limited. "Seats on the boat are precious," Zuckerberg said on "The State of AI with Rowan Cheung" podcast. Any bad hires or organizational bloat could weigh the whole operation down.