Global AI News: Flirty Chatbot Scandal, Major Breakthroughs & Big Tech Showdowns (Aug 29–30, 2025)
Key Facts Business and Industry Developments Meta’s AI strategy – build, buy, or partner: Meta Platforms pursued a multi-pronged approach to AI. It signed a deal to license Midjourney’s image-generation technology, integrating the startup’s “aesthetic” imaging tools into Meta’s future products reuters.com reuters.com. At the same time, Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs team has explored partnerships with rivals: internal discussions considered using Google’s Gemini and even OpenAI’s models to power Meta’s AI assistant features reuters.com reuters.com. A Meta spokesperson confirmed an “all-of-the-above” approach – developing its own world-class models (like the upcoming Llama 5) while also collaborating externally and open-sourcing when
