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.

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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.

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.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “loved” an image on Facebook known as "Challah Horse" that happens to be AI-generated, highlighting the amount of AI spam on the platform.

Privacy experts note that Meta ‘s approach to AI memory includes robust security measures to protect user data. The company has implemented encryption protocols and data retention policies that comply with global privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA.

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

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.

Microsoft alone is projecting $80 billion of infrastructure spend for data centers in 2025; meanwhile, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are leading the newly announced Stargate initiative under President Trump -- a project aiming to invest $500 billion into AI frameworks over the coming years.

AI filmmakers and creatives applauded the move — welcoming the opportunity to receive copyright protections on their work.