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In what can be called a major blow to Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions, Chinese regulators have officially blocked Meta Platforms from acquiring AI startup Manus. This comes days after a report claimed that China has ordered its leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies to stop accepting American capital as Beijing aims to prevent sensitive AI breakthroughs…
Meta Platforms plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, in an effort to boost efficiency and offset its heavy spending on artificial intelligence. The company disclosed the move in a memo sent to employees Thursday, saying the layoffs will come on May 20. Meta also won’t hire workers for 6,000 open roles…
Meta is laying off 10% of its workforce. As reported earlier this month by news agency Reuters, the Mark Zuckerberg headed company plans to reduce its workforce by 10%, or roughly 8,000 employees, in May. The company announced the layoffs in a memo written by chief people officer Janelle Gale to employees saying that the…
FILE – Representative Image (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta Platforms has reportedly sent a memo to all employees saying that Meta is installing a new tracking software on the computers of all employees in the United States so it can train its AI. According to a report in Reuters quoting an internal memo…
Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth, who oversees the company’s Reality Labs division, says that stress is not something he encounters often, but when it surface, he treats it as a signal to reprioritise. According to a report by Business Insider, speaking during an Instagram ‘ask-me-anything’ session, Bosworth explained that he usually feels stressed only…
WhatsApp parent company Meta has confirmed that it is testing a new optional subscription service called WhatsApp Plus, which is aimed at users who want to customise their messaging app beyond the standard green-and-white interface. According to the company and early testers like social media consultant Matt Navarra, WhatsApp Plus is largely a “cosmetic” upgrade,…
Yann LeCun, often referred to as “Father of AI” and who once chose to stay in Paris instead of moving to the US earlier in his career, recently pointed to key differences between European and American politics—especially around privacy and trust in government. In a recent exchange on X (formerly known as Twitter), Yann LeCun…
Jensen Huang pushed back hard on the idea that Google’s TPUs, Meta’s MTIA chips, Anthropic’s multi-gigawatt compute deal, Amazon’s Trainium4, and OpenAI’s custom Broadcom silicon spell the beginning of the end for Nvidia. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcast, the Nvidia CEO called Anthropic’s TPU pivot a one-off, defended CUDA’s staying power, and conceded one early…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has physically moved his desk into the company’s AI lab, where he now sits alongside Superintelligence Labs head Alexandr Wang and codes for up to ten hours a week. Meta President Dina Powell McCormick confirmed the move, adding that Zuckerberg feels he needs to understand AI “at that level” to build…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook-parent Meta is reportedly developing an artificial intelligence-powered version of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg that can interact with employees in his place. According to a report by Financial Times, the project is part of Meta’s broader push to embed AI deeply into its products and operations. The FT report suggests that…
