Meta Taps AWS Graviton Chips as Agentic AI Push Raises CPU Demand
Meta has signed a new agreement to deploy millions of AWS Graviton processors as it scales the infrastructure behind its agentic AI ambitions. The deal highlights how AI compute demand is expanding beyond GPUs into high-performance CPUs for orchestration, inference, and memory-heavy workloads.
China Orders Meta to Unwind Its Manus AI Acquisition
China has ordered Meta to reverse its acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup founded by Chinese engineers. The decision could unsettle Chinese AI founders seeking foreign capital and deepen the political risk around cross-border AI deals.
Meta Launches Muse Spark as Its First Superintelligence Model and a Reset for Meta AI
Meta has introduced Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, pairing multimodal reasoning, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration with a broader push to rebuild Meta AI around what Mark Zuckerberg calls personal superintelligence.
What Meta's Unreleased AI Model 'Avocado' Reveals About Its Strategy
Meta's next-generation AI model 'Avocado' has been delayed, underperforms rivals in internal tests, and may temporarily license Google's Gemini — raising serious questions about where Meta's AI strategy is actually headed.
Meta Raises Texas AI Data Center Investment From $1.5B to $10B as Compute Ambitions Grow
Meta's El Paso facility has ballooned from a $1.5 billion project to a $10 billion one, with the site now targeting one gigawatt of capacity and 4,000 construction workers — as the company faces mounting cost scrutiny and its first wave of AI-driven layoffs.