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Zuckerberg says Meta will invest hundreds of billions in superintelligence
Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday (Jul 14) that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of US dollars on computing power to build…
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Meta poached Apple’s AI engineer Pang with pay package over US$200 million: sources
Meta Platforms has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team – including a more than US$200…
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Meta seeks US$29 billion from private capital firms for AI data centres, FT reports
Meta Platforms is seeking to raise US$29 billion from private capital firms to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in the US,…
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were…
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Meta launches US$399 Oakley AI glasses with 3k video recording
The company is planning to introduce higher-end glasses with a display to view notifications and the camera view finder later this year,…
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Meta discussed buying Perplexity before investing in Scale
Meta Platforms held discussions with artificial intelligence (AI) search startup Perplexity AI about a possible takeover before moving…
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Meta finalises investment in Scale AI, valuing startup at US$29 billion
META Platforms has finalised an investment in Scale AI that values the startup at over US$29 billion, Scale AI said on Thursday. Two…
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Meta taps top researchers from Google, Sesame for new AI lab
META Platforms has poached top engineers from multiple tech firms, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, for a new team focused on achieving a…
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Meta in talks for scale AI investment that could top US$10 billion
Meta Platforms is in talks to make a multibillion-dollar investment into artificial intelligence startup Scale AI, according to people…
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Meta aims to fully automate advertising with AI by 2026: WSJ
Meta Platforms aims to allow brands to fully create and target advertisements with its artificial intelligence tools by the end of next…
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Meta AI bot used a billion times monthly: Mark Zuckerberg
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg touted the tech firm’s generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) assistant on Wednesday, telling shareholders…
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Meta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies
“Oh, wow, this is really cool,” Flannery Johnston, 28, said as the chatbot came to life, offering a personalized hello from M3GAN, the…
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US: Wall Street leaps at the open on Microsoft, Meta boost
Wall Street’s main indexes jumped at the open on Thursday, powered by shares of Meta and Microsoft, as their strong quarterly results…
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online, a digital gathering place where we…
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Meta reduces stock options for staff despite trading at record highs: FT
META Platforms has cut back on its yearly distribution of stock options by about 10 per cent for tens of thousands of employees despite…
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Meta plans major investment into AI-Powered humanoid robots
META Platforms, after pushing into augmented reality and artificial intelligence (AI), has identified its next big bet: AI-powered…
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Meta layoffs hit Singapore as tech giant cuts global workforce
JOB cuts by social media giant Meta have hit Singapore, according to public posts on professional networking platform LinkedIn and sources…
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Meta opens Facebook Marketplace to rivals in EU antitrust clash
META Platforms is prying open its previously guarded Facebook Marketplace platform to a swathe of classified ads rivals, in a renewed…
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Meta accounting move on AI servers to boost profit this year
META Platforms made a small change last month that’s likely to increase the company’s profit by billions of US dollars this year. It was…
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Chris Hemsworth Eats Kris Jenner’s Banana Art, Chris Pratt Supports Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in Super Bowl 2025 Commercial
To promote their new Meta Glasses, Ray–Ban has enlisted the help of Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt and Kris Jenner. In a new commercial that…
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Meta Partners With UNESCO on Indigenous Language Translation
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List of American companies that support President Donald Trump
Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid attracted significant financial backing from a mix of corporate donors, billionaire executives and…
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Once a Trump critic, Mark Zuckerberg pivots toward the president
Before Donald Trump kicked off his second term as president, Meta Platforms Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg took another big…
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Meta posts longest rally since 2015 as Wall Street cheers AI bet
Meta Platforms shares posted their longest streak of daily gains in almost a decade, with its latest earnings report adding to investor…