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1. Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run

   MarkTechPost · 2026-08-08

   Long agent runs accumulate state that no transcript records — edited files, a live dev server, installed packages, a warm prompt cache.

2. Meta AI uses a second AI agent as a memory coach to keep long tasks on track

   The Decoder · 2026-08-02

   Meta AI wants to stop AI agents from forgetting errors they've already diagnosed and repeating failed steps during complex tasks.

3. Microsoft Wins, Meta Faces Questions, Qualcomm Sees Supply Chain Challenges | Bloomberg Tech

   Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

   Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down big tech's earnings, with Microsoft soaring on cloud growth as its AI gets traction

4. Meta Sinks After Defending AI Bets to Skeptical Investors

   Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

   Meta Platforms Inc. gave a disappointing quarterly revenue forecast, stepping up pressure on Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to allay investor concerns that the company

5. Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming

   TechCrunch · 2026-07-30

   Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the

6. Meta's AI Spending Faces Wall Street Test

   Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

   Meta's AI spending is under intense scrutiny after a softer outlook. MoffettNathanson analyst Michael Nathanson explains why investors no longer want promises—they want proof.

7. Meta Reports $279 Billion in Future Data Center Leases for AI

   Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

   Meta Platforms Inc. said it has $279 billion in future lease agreements mostly related to artificial intelligence data centers that are not yet reflected on its balance sheet.

8. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fails to Fill In The Details on an AI Cloud Business

   Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

   Investors and analysts are still waiting for the Meta CEO to give details of a new AI business

9. Zuckerberg details Meta’s personal AI superintelligence strategy

   AI News · 2026-07-30

   Mark Zuckerberg has published a WSJ op-ed that argues superintelligence must reach individuals, not just a handful of institutions.

10. Gilbert: Meta On Hyperscaler Spend Without the Business

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

    Microsoft shares surged in late trading after better-than-expected 4Q earnings, helped by continued strength in cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

11. Meta’s Zuckerberg strains to assuage investor worries on AI bet

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-30

    Meta gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter, intensifying investor concerns that the social media giant isn’t swiftly benefiting from its massive outlay on

12. Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-29

    As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.

13. Meta Bets Its Next Revenue Line on Personal AI Agents

    Unite.AI · 2026-07-29

    Meta put consumer AI agents at the center of its revenue plan on July 29, 2026, when it reported second-quarter results and then used much of the earnings call to lay out a

14. Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-29

    On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute

15. Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

    The Verge · 2026-07-29

    Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf.

16. Meta Gives Lackluster Quarterly Sales Forecast

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    Meta Platforms Inc. gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter, intensifying investor concerns about the social media giant’s spending on artificial

17. Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI

    The Guardian AI · 2026-07-29

    Stock tumbles nearly 8% after weaker-than-expected results, despite CEO’s blitz to tout positive effects of AI Mark Zuckerberg’s media spree touting the positive effects of

18. Meta’s Free Cash Flow Dwindles to Lowest in Nearly Four Years

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    Meta Platforms Inc.’s free cash flow has fallen to the lowest level since the third quarter of 2022, a result of its transformation from a social media app maker into an AI

19. Meta’s Zuckerberg Defends AI Bets to Skeptical Investors

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    Meta Platforms Inc. gave a disappointing quarterly revenue forecast, stepping up pressure on Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to allay investor concerns that the company

20. The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-29

    Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

21. AI Workers Call for US to Pace Tech's Growth

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    More than 1,100 workers from top AI firms have signed a petition calling on the US government to help "deliberately pace" AI development.

22. AI Spending In Focus for Meta, Microsoft Earnings

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    Gil Luria of DA Davidson says Microsoft will be the key company to watch during this earnings season and it all has to do with spending on artificial intelligence and capex.

23. Microsoft, Meta Earnings Face a Market Growing Skeptical of AI

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-29

    Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. are about to test investors’ diminishing patience for Big Tech’s profligate spending on artificial intelligence and the dwindling cash

24. AI company employees petition US government for regulation

    Engadget · 2026-07-28

    A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.

25. AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

    The Verge · 2026-07-28

    Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs

26. Meta’s AI keeps scraping my community website, and I get charged £25 a month for the privilege

    Towards AI · 2026-07-28

    Meta's AI training systems have been identified as the source of persistent, unauthorized data scraping from a small community website

27. Meta, BlackRock Plan to Invest in $14 Billion Data Center

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-28

    Meta Platforms Inc. and BlackRock Inc. plan to build a 1-gigawatt data center complex in Texas that will cost about $14 billion to develop

28. Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-27

    Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.

29. All Threads users can now DM Meta AI

    Engadget · 2026-07-27

    Meta AI is coming to Threads DMs, following availability inside Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp DMs.

30. America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy

    AI News · 2026-07-27

    America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States

31. Instagram, Facebook Ran AI ‘Nudify’ Ads from China, NGO Says

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-27

    Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram have served thousands of ads for AI “nudify” apps in breach of the company’s policies

32. Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

    The Verge · 2026-07-24

    Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.

33. Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI

    AI News · 2026-07-24

    Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models.

34. Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts

    The Decoder · 2026-07-24

    Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter.

35. Meta, Microsoft Face Renewed Unease Over AI Spending: US Earnings Week Ahead

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-24

    Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. face renewed investor anxiety over their debt-fueled capital expenditure plans after Alphabet Inc.

36. Meta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humans

    Engadget · 2026-07-24

    Meta is trying to tackle scammers that are using generative AI by introducing a new kind of verification using user selfies.

37. Meta's pro-AI ad campaign is conspicuously light on AI

    Engadget · 2026-07-23

    The company wants people to be anti-doomer, but doesn't say why.

38. Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending

    WIRED · 2026-07-23

    The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”

39. Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-23

    David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

40. Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for Claude in a deal worth up to $5 billion

    The Decoder · 2026-07-22

    AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic. In return, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for training and running its Claude models.