Meta is adding yet another top A.I. expert to the company’s rapidly growing roster of talent, much of it plucked from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Apple now joins the mix of disgruntled competitors, with researcher Ruoming Pang leaving the iPhone maker to join Mark Zuckerberg ’s push toward advanced forms of A.I.

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

Meta Platforms Inc., the technology conglomerate behind Facebook, is going all-in on artificial intelligence infrastructure. CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into building some of the world’s largest AI superclusters.

Google will pay more than $3 billion to source carbon-free hydropower from Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners' plants in Pennsylvania.

Baird analyst Colin Sebastian joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss Amazon, Google, and Meta’s AI strategies, tech investing trends, and how today’s AI boom compares to the dot-com era.

"Accounts that improperly reuse someone else’s videos, photos or text posts repeatedly will not only lose access to Facebook monetization programs for a period of time, but will also receive reduced distribution on everything they share," Meta said in an official blog post on Monday, July 14, 2025.