Meta is giving its AI assistant a better “memory” in an effort to make the chatbot more useful. The company’s latest AI update allows the assistant to “remember certain details that you share with it in 1:1 chat” and uses your past activity on Facebook and Instagram to make more personalized recommendations.

Meta says that it is rolling out improvements to Meta AI, its cross-platform chatbot, including the ability have the bot “remember” details from conversations. In a post on Meta’s official blog, the company said that,

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media company plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year alone to build on its artificial intelligence efforts.

Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of its latest AI models triggered a selloff in global tech stocks this week on concerns about rising AI costs in the US.

Stocks tumbled after a Chinese AI startup said its models can compete with the likes of ChatGPT and other U.S.-based models at a fraction of the cost.

DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based startup founded in 2023, shot to the top of Apple’s App Store free app chart after releasing a new open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI's work. Its website was hit by outages amid a spike in interest.

The qualitative parallels between Monday’s artificial intelligence bust and the one that hit wildly free-spending telecommunications firms some 25 years ago are uncanny. The quantitative resemblance is mostly hallucinated.

Social media giant Meta on Wednesday reported surging profits and revenue for 2024, announcing ambitious plans to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure in the year ahead.

Police in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state dismissed rumours shared thousands of times on social media that they had arrested a Muslim man who dressed as a Hindu monk in an apparent bid to attack the Hindu mega-festival Kumbh Mela.

Meta reported record quarterly revenue and net profit for Q4 2024 as it looks to massively boost spending on AI in 2025.

Security experts warn about DeepSeek AI's data tracking, which can even watch what you type. More details here.

Apple's earnings call is today at 5 pm ET. AAPL stock heads into the report down 4% YTD. Analysts are focused on services and China sales.