Meta's legal team sent a notice to the Heretic Free Software Project for distributing Llama model derivatives. Heretic responded with sardonic compliance — invoking Galileo — while immediately setting up a Codeberg mirror in Germany and announcing preservation measures.
Meta's Private Processing technology uses Trusted Execution Environments to isolate Meta AI conversations inside WhatsApp, so neither Meta employees nor third parties can access them.
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow filed suit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg personally, alleging that Zuckerberg directly authorized downloading millions of copyrighted works from piracy sites to train Meta's Llama AI systems.
On its Q1 2026 earnings call (April 29), Meta disclosed that its business AI tools processed about 10 million conversations per week as of late March, up from 1 million at the start of the year — still free, monetization hinted ahead.
Meta closed the acquisition of Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) on May 1, targeting the $5 trillion humanoid robotics market with an Android-style strategy: own the AI layer, let manufacturers build the machines.
Q1 2026 earnings reports from Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon reveal combined capital expenditures exceeding $725 billion for the year — nearly double last year's $410 billion — as the AI data center arms race accelerates.
Meta reported Q1 2026 revenue of $56.3 billion (+33% YoY), with net income rising 61%. But investors pushed the stock down 6–10% after Meta raised its full-year AI capex forecast to $125–145 billion, citing higher component costs and new data center buildouts.
Meta's new spending range says the hyperscaler arms race is getting more expensive, not calmer. Reuters reports the company raised 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $125 billion-$145 billion, and the stock fell more than 6% after hours.
AI infrastructure is moving upstream into energy. On April 27, 2026, Meta said it reserved up to 1 GW of space solar with Overview Energy and up to 1 GW/100 GWh of long-duration storage with Noon Energy for its data center buildout.
This matters because Beijing just showed that cross-border AI acquisitions can be reversed even after the people and product start moving. TechCrunch reported on April 27 that China blocked Meta’s $2 billion Manus deal, ordered the transaction unwound, and left one of the agent race’s splashiest bets in limbo.
Meta will add tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores, a sign that the AI infrastructure race is no longer just about GPUs. The company argues that agentic AI is inflating CPU-heavy work such as planning, orchestration, and data movement, making Graviton5 a strategic fit.
Meta has started showing parents a seven-day topic log for teen conversations with Meta AI across Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. The rollout begins in five countries and pairs topic visibility with planned self-harm alerts and a new expert council.