1. Meta signage, representing its C$13 billion Alberta data center and AI compute expansion
    Technology

    Meta to Build C$13B (~$9.2B) Data Center in Alberta, Its First in Canada

    Meta will build its first Canadian data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, a C$13 billion (about $9.2 billion) project starting at 1 gigawatt and scaling to 1.8 gigawatts.

    ·2 min read
  2. Meta and Broadcom logos over a silicon chip, representing Meta's MTIA custom AI silicon
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    Meta to Begin Manufacturing Its Iris AI Chip in September 2026

    Meta will begin manufacturing its custom Iris AI chip in September 2026, designed with Broadcom and fabricated by TSMC, part of a push to cut compute costs and reduce its reliance on Nvidia and AMD.

    ·1 min read
  3. A large-scale data center, representing the compute behind frontier AI labs.
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    Anthropic Leads Future of Life Institute AI Safety Index With a C+

    The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index gave Anthropic the top grade, a C+, with OpenAI and Google DeepMind at C and xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral failing. No company earned an A or B.

    ·2 min read
  4. Meta Glasses smart eyewear line launched with EssilorLuxottica starting at $299.
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    Meta Launches $299 Smart Glasses With Muse Spark AI

    Meta launched a self-branded Meta Glasses line with EssilorLuxottica starting at $299, running Muse Spark — the first AI model from Meta Superintelligence Labs — on a 12MP camera frame.

    ·2 min read
  5. Mark Zuckerberg Directs Meta to Build Prediction Market App Called Arena
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    Mark Zuckerberg Directs Meta to Build Prediction Market App Called Arena

    Mark Zuckerberg has directed Meta to build Arena, a standalone prediction market app that would put 3.56 billion daily active users in competition with Polymarket and Kalshi. It starts with points, not money.

    ·1 min read
  6. Instagram's 'Your Algorithm' Lets Users Add and Remove Reels Topics
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    Instagram's 'Your Algorithm' Lets Users Add and Remove Reels Topics

    Instagram's 'Your Algorithm' surfaces the AI-summarized topics driving your Reels and Explore feeds and lets you add or remove them — Adam Mosseri's move toward recommendation transparency.

    ·1 min read
  7. Meta Unveils Four MTIA AI Chips on a Six-Month Release Cadence
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    Meta Unveils Four MTIA AI Chips on a Six-Month Release Cadence

    Meta detailed four MTIA chip generations (300, 400, 450 and 500) built for AI inference and shipping on a roughly six-month cadence with Broadcom, a push to cut its dependence on Nvidia GPUs.

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  8. Big Tech Will Spend $700 Billion on AI This Year
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    Big Tech Will Spend $700 Billion on AI This Year

    Combined hyperscaler capex is jumping from $410B in 2025 to nearly $700B in 2026. Meta alone is now budgeting $145B. Q1 capex across the four hyperscalers cleared $130B. The largest infrastructure buildout since the railroads has no defined finish line.

    ·5 min read
  9. Stripe Brings One-Click Checkout to Facebook Ads — What It Means for Creators Who Sell
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    Stripe Brings One-Click Checkout to Facebook Ads — What It Means for Creators Who Sell

    Stripe just collapsed the gap between impulse and purchase: buyers can now complete a transaction directly inside a Facebook ad, powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol and a single saved credential.

    ·2 min read
  10. Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon
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    Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

    Wikipedia's volunteer-built encyclopedia is now a paid AI training resource. Wikimedia Enterprise hit $8.3M in revenue — up 148% — as Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon sign on.

    ·1 min read
  11. Meta Unveils $799 Ray-Ban Display Glasses with Neural Control at Connect 2025
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    Meta Unveils $799 Ray-Ban Display Glasses with Neural Control at Connect 2025

    Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta's first smart glasses with a built-in display and neural wristband control, launching September 30th for $799. A major step toward mainstream AR.

    ·2 min read
  12. Sunday Notes
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    Sunday Notes

    Ghanaian football star Christian Atsu was found in the rubble of the Turkey earthquake—two weeks after going missing following the February 6th disaster.

    ·4 min read