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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms Dodges $8 Billion Trial With Eleventh-Hour Settlement
Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 4:16pm | 384Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) has reached a settlement with its shareholders and company leadership, thereby avoiding an $8 billion trial. What Happened: This move spares CEO Mark Zuckerberg from testifying about alleged data violations. The lawsuit was initiated by Meta...
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Scale AI Slashes 14% Of Workforce After Meta's $14 Billion Investment
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 5:06pm | 524Scale AI, a San Francisco startup, recently celebrated a $14.3 billion investment from Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META). Shortly afterward, it laid off 14% of its total staff. The Details: The artificial intelligence company confirmed Wednesday that it is reducing its workforce by 200 full-time...
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Mark Zuckerberg Poaches Sam Altman's Talent With Multimillion-Dollar Offers To Build Meta's AI Team
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 3:15pm | 469Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META), under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is on a relentless pursuit for artificial intelligence (AI) specialists, with remuneration packages that outstrip those of professional sports stars and Fortune 500 CEOs. What Happened: As per a ...
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Mark Zuckerberg Once Revealed That Getting Into Harvard Made His Mom And Dad Prouder Than Building Facebook —Spills The Beans On Why No One Talked To Him At His First Class
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 9:38pm | 961Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg once joked that his parents were more proud of his Harvard University acceptance than anything he's done since, despite founding one of the world's most influential tech companies. What Happened: "I'm honored to be with you today because, let's...
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Musk Vs Zuckerberg: Two Richest Men Battle Over Daily Social Media Users
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 6:55pm | 755Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg almost ended up in a cage fight over their competing social media platforms. Musk may not want to look at the latest metrics from X rival Threads, or he could be proposing a cage match again. What Happened: Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) launched Threads...
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Mark Zuckerberg-Led Meta Acquires Nearly 3% Of Ray-Ban, Oakley Parent EssilorLuxottica In $3.5 Billion Deal: Report
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 9:45pm | 654Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has reportedly acquired a minority stake in EssilorLuxottica (OTC:ESLOF). What Happened: Meta has acquired nearly 3% of EssilorLuxottica, the French-Italian eyewear giant behind brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, reported Bloomberg on Tuesday,...
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Meta's AI Empire Grows — Fueled By OpenAI, DeepMind, Apple Defectors
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 12:18pm | 568Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) is aggressively expanding its AI dominance through its Superintelligence Labs (MSL), launched in June 2025 to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI). Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, MSL consolidates Meta's Llama models and FAIR (Fundamental Artificial Intelligence...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Lures Away Apple AI Chief Ruoming Pang With Tens-Of-Millions Compensation Package: Report
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 9:39pm | 631Ruoming Pang, the AI model lead at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), is reportedly leaving to join Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META). What Happened: Pang, who was leading Apple's AI model team responsible for training Cupertino's foundational models, is the latest hire to escalate Meta's...
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Mark Cuban And Elon Musk Have Something In Common Beyond Their Billions
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:07pm | 843Mark Cuban and Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk may not agree on everything these days, except, perhaps, the potential for a viable third political party. But one thing they do share is the number of people who admire them. What Happened: Musk and Cuban are both examples of the entrepreneurial...
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Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Crashes Donald Trump's Oval Office F-47 Jet Briefing, Asked To Leave—White House Says Situation 'Mischaracterized'
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:34am | 513Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META), was allegedly asked to leave a meeting in the Oval Office due to security clearance issues. What Happened: Zuckerberg, who was at the White House to meet with President Donald Trump, unexpectedly walked into a meeting about the F-47...
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OpenAI's Sam Altman Hints At Compensation Evaluation Amid Meta's 'Distasteful' AI Talent Poaching Spree: Report
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 7:19am | 588OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in an internal message to OpenAI researchers, reportedly emphasized the importance of staying with OpenAI and hinted at possible compensation evaluations. What Happened: In a message to OpenAI researchers on Monday, Altman made a strong case for staying with OpenAI,...
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Meta's Superintelligence Lab Wants To Outthink The World—And Scale AI DNA Is All Over It
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 10:47am | 514Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a decisive move to reshape the company's entire AI strategy by consolidating all artificial intelligence efforts under a newly formed division called Meta Superintelligence Labs. The restructuring aims to drive Meta toward its...
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Meta, TikTok Can Be Held Liable For Subway Surfing Death Of 15-Year-Old Boy Addicted To Viral Challenges, Says New York Judge
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 1:30am | 634A New York state judge says the mother of a Manhattan teen who died subway surfing can try to hold Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) and TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, legally responsible for fueling her son's fatal stunt addiction. What Happened Justice Paul Goetz ruled Friday that Norma...
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Mark Zuckerberg Once Predicted That This Technology Would Replace Your Phone — A Decade Later, How Far Is Meta From Delivering On A 'More Natural' Future
Monday, June 30, 2025 - 9:14pm | 1126Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg once shared his bold vision, indicating that virtual and augmented reality would one day replace mobile phones as the dominant computing platform. Now, nearly a decade later, how close is Meta to achieving that future? What Happened: In a 2015...
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Meta Is 'Gonna Need Time To Catch Up,' Says Hyperbolic CTO Yuchen Jin As OpenAI's Upcoming Open-Source Release Outperforms Existing ChatGPT Model
Monday, June 30, 2025 - 4:10am | 708Hyperbolic Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Yuchen Jin on Sunday said that OpenAI plans to release an open-source artificial intelligence model next month that reportedly outperforms existing ChatGPT options, potentially intensifying competition with Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META). What...