Google plans to part ways with Scale AI after META deal-report. Activist investor calls for changes at VSCO-report. Southwest equipping fleet with Honeywell-designed cockpit safety software.

Alexandr Wang says Neuralink and other brain-computer interfaces will help kids learn in "crazy ways."

Meta is making an investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting Chief Executive Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.

With standard AI, we build prompts, define logic and teach the models how to behave. With agentic AI, we create systems that learn, adapt and act autonomously. These agents follow instructions and understand intent. They can analyze changes in the system, adjust automation scripts accordingly and execute tests without human intervention.

Data is the battleground, and Scale’s pipelines may just be the most valuable trenches.” This comment in a recent industry report captures the thinking behind Meta’s splashy $15 billion buyout of Scale AI a development that has stunned Silicon Valley and beyond.