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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…
After nearly nine months of aggressive poaching, Meta CTO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have succeeded in his ‘almost full-scale raid” on Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, as yet another founding member has left the startup to join Meta. In August last year, it was reported that Meta tried to buy OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Officer…
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 is aggressively pushing an AI-native vision, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg directing engineers to restructure codebases for AI agents. The company tracks employee AI usage, including massive token consumption costing millions monthly. Teams are reorganised into AI ‘pods,’ and ambitious goals are set for AI-assisted coding, though some question the focus on usage over actual…
Palmer Luckey was only 21 when Meta acquired his virtual reality startup, Oculus VR in March 2014. The company was acquired for a whopping $2 billion, making it one of biggest tech deals of the decade. With the acquisition, Palmer Luckey became one of the youngest self-made billionaires then. “Mobile is the platform of today,…
Meta has set minimum AI coding targets for engineers across divisions, with some teams expected to write over 75% of their code using AI tools like Metamate and Google Gemini. The company has also restructured parts of Reality Labs into small AI “pods” with new job titles. The AI push comes alongside layoffs that hit…
India’s Head Coach Gautam Gambhir (PTI Photo) The Delhi High Court has directed major tech platforms, including Google, Meta, and Amazon, to remove objectionable online content that allegedly misuses the name and identity of former India cricketer and current head coach Gautam Gambhir for commercial gain.A single-judge bench led by Justice Jyoti Singh observed that…
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…
Neal Stephenson, the author who coined “metaverse,” says Meta’s $80 billion VR failure was largely self-inflicted. He argues the real metaverse never needed goggles—Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft already are the metaverse, with hundreds of millions of users to prove it. He also says people will never consistently wear things on their faces. His advice to…
Artificial intelligence is changing how engineers work at tech companies, but it has also created what analysts are calling an “expensive status game”. According to a report by New York Times, engineers at Meta, OpenAI and other big tech firms are now competing based on how much they use AI tools, measured in “tokens,” which…
