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How an upset Chinese government with Meta’s Manus acquisition proves that “Singapore washing” may no longer work for Chinese and American companies

Meta acquired Manus AI startup for $2 billion last year, but the deal has now come under scrutiny from Chinese authorities, highlighting rising tensions over cross-border tech deals. The Chinese government is currently reviewing whether the transaction violated rules related to technology exports and overseas investments. The development has drawn attention across the tech industry,…

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Meta Layoffs: Meta’s biggest-ever layoffs may start soon; HR sends employees email asking them to… |

Meta is preparing for its largest-ever round of layoffs, with employees in wearables and ads told to work from home as cuts loom. Reuters reported the reductions could affect 20% of its nearly 79,000-strong workforce—around 15,800 jobs. The move is driven by Meta’s $600 billion AI infrastructure commitment and a broader push toward leaner, AI-assisted…

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Mark Zuckerberg makes more high-profile hirings for Meta’s AI unit, hires founders and team behind AI startup Dreamer

FILE picture (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta Platforms has hired the founders and core team behind Dreamer, an artificial intelligence startup launched earlier this year to simplify the creation of personalized AI agents. The move is said to signal a high-profile homecoming for co-founder Hugo Barra, a former Meta executive and Google veteran,…

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Meta’s Smart Glasses: ‘We see everything’: Thousands in Kenya are reportedly seeing your most private moments you record on Meta’s Smart Glasses |

Meta Ray-Ban users’ most private moments captured on smart glasses may not be staying between you and the AI, a report has said. An investigation by two Swedish newspapers has revealed that a hidden workforce of thousands in Kenya is manually reviewing and labeling all the video feeds to “train” Meta’s next generation of artificial…

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Mark Zuckerberg is ‘done with’ the Meta’s highest-paid employee as company’s reorganisation proves

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has quietly dismantled Alexandr Wang’s power nine months after the $14 billion hire. The 28-year-old data labeling entrepreneur now oversees AI models being built on infrastructure he doesn’t control. A new applied AI engineering organization under Andrew Bosworth routes talent and data pipelines around Wang entirely. Researchers report to other executives….

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Meta’s most-famous former employee Yann LeCun on Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI: ‘They are stealing each other’s engineers so that they can’t afford…’

Yann LeCun, former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the “Godfather of AI”, has crticised the Silicon Valley giants, describing the industry as “LLM-pilled”. He warned that LeCun warned that the talent war between tech giants where they are hiring AI researchers is being used as a strategic weapon to stifle innovation as they are…

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Meta’s Asia Policy chief is leaving; says in ‘farewell note’ on LinkedIn: I recently celebrated completion of my 14th year at Meta, that’s …

Facebook-parent Meta’s senior public policy executive for Asia-Pacific is leaving the company amid regulatory challenges in the region. Singapore-based Simon Milner has been with Meta since 2012. In a recent LinkedIn post, he announced that he will leave the company in the first half of this year to retire from full-time work. In his post,…

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All is not well between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s highest-paid employee as the company’s new reporting structure shows

Meta’s new structure reveals tension between Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the $14 billion AI recruit. Wang finds Zuckerberg’s micromanagement stifling, while staff question his leadership for Meta’s AI ambitions. A recent strategy clash highlighted differing priorities, with Wang pushing for cutting-edge AI over immediate product integration. Meta’s newest reporting structure is exposing something leadership…

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Meta’s most-famous former employee Yann LeCun to everyone in the technology industry: Everything you know about and are working on AI is WRONG

Meta’s former AI chief, Yann LeCun, declared Large Language Models (LLMs) a ‘dead end’ for achieving superintelligence. He advocates for ‘world models’ that learn from physical reality, not just language, to build advanced machine intelligence. LeCun’s departure from Meta was reportedly due to internal disagreements over the company’s LLM-centric superintelligence push, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s…

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Meta’s most famous employee Yann LeCun breaks silence on why he left Mark Zuckerberg’s company

AI luminary Yann LeCun is leaving Meta after a decade, citing fundamental disagreements with CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s AI strategy. LeCun believes large language models are a ‘dead end’ for superintelligence, a view clashing with Meta’s massive investment. AI pioneer and Meta’s most famous employee Yann LeCun has opened up about his departure…

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