
Meta news: its AI labs and models, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, smart glasses, spending plans and regulatory battles.
103 briefs, newest first.

“The "open science" label is great PR, but the commercial funders just bought themselves an exclusive embargo period to patent the most valuable predictive targets before the public gets access.”

“Everyone assumed Nvidia would own the entire AI server rack, but it turns out you still need cheap x86 legacy silicon to handle the background busywork of autonomous agents.”





“Funding orbital solar panels is a great way for the Pentagon to sound futuristic while ignoring the crushing physics of launch costs and terrestrial nuclear alternatives.”

“Meta is realizing that the compute cost of running agents requires taking a direct tax on retail transactions, not just selling ad space.”




“Promising to fund local schools isn't corporate philanthropy; it's just the new mandatory bribery required to get $200B worth of compute infrastructure past local zoning boards.”


“Apple's vaunted security architecture once again relies on a third-party social network to spot state-level rendering exploits operating inside its own walls.”

“Investors are happily ignoring Meta's massive structural distribution advantage to throw a billion dollars at a month-old SMS bot just to ensure they aren't left behind in the agent race.”
“Zuckerberg is done playing the benevolent open-source king; hiring a seasoned enterprise database executive means Meta is finally ready to aggressively squeeze corporate America for its compute costs.”

