Amazon kills the crowdsourcing platform that trained a generation of AI models, as the models it helped build replace the human workers.

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and tech founder Lucy Guo have publicly detailed their personal spending restrictions, outlining how extreme frugality remains

Meta Platforms has established a dedicated organizational division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, placing 28-year-old Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang at its

As AI agents proliferate into the web, a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind warns that scale makes failure inevitable.

Meta is reinvesting in its AI capabilities after a significant $14 billion investment, bringing in Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team. Their major achievement is the Muse Spark AI model, representing Meta's shift towards proprietary foundation models rather than solely open-source. Despite this progress, Meta still lags behind key competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI market. Investors are seeking tangible proof of adoption and commercialization of Meta's new AI products, beyond improvements to their advertising models. Wall Street has shown little enthusiasm, with Meta's stock underperforming its megacap peers, even with strong recent revenue growth. The company's previous strategic decision to focus heavily on open-source with its Llama models is now viewed by some as a misstep. The release of Llama 4 failed to gain traction, prompting a reassessment of Meta's AI strategy. Since Muse Spark's debut, Meta has introduced subscription plans to diversify revenue beyond advertising, which still accounts for 98% of their income. Analysts emphasize the need for Meta to demonstrate a pipeline of AI-first products, even if immediate monetization is slow. Meta faces a challenge regaining developer trust following the Llama setback, with some developers currently favoring Google's AI offerings. The shift from an open-weight focus to Muse Spark, without a strong emphasis on third-party developers, is a concern. Experts suggest that a "walled-garden" approach focused only on ad revenue will hinder Meta's ability to become a major AI player. However, Meta plans to offer API access to Muse Spark's technology and is testing with early partners. Meta's substantial losses in its metaverse and VR ventures also create a tougher environment for its AI initiatives to gain investor confidence.

Bay Area, CA — 700 anti-war, labor, and community organizers from across the country gathered from May 30th to June 1st for an Anti-Imperialist Political Conference, Peace Forum, and mass protest in response to the Trump administration's attacks on working people around the world, aided by increasingly powerful tech and weapons companies, many of them based in the Bay Area. The protest targeted OpenAI and ScaleAI headquarters in downtown San Francisco and included testimonies from communities directly impacted by US high-tech warfare, environmental destruction by data centers, and AI-powered ICE surveillance.