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Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has reportedly invested a staggering $250 million to secure the talents of 24-year-old AI prodigy, Matt Deitke. What Happened: Deitke, a former doctoral student at the University of Washington, initially turned down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s offer of around...

Meta 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...

Wall Street watched history unfold as Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) became the first company to hit a $4 trillion market cap, capping off a week of market-moving headlines. In a surprising diplomatic turn, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called recent talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi...

Meta 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 ...

A top-ranking executive at Meta Platforms Inc. has leveled accusations of dishonesty against Sam Altman, the leader of OpenAI. What Happened: The allegations pertain to claims of $100 million signing bonuses offered by Meta to lure leading AI researchers away from OpenAI. Andrew Bosworth,...

Hinge founder Justin McLeod says Silicon Valley's push to offer artificial-intelligence “friends” risks worsening, not curing, the loneliness crisis and likened Mark Zuckerberg's vision of AI companionship to eating junk food. What Happened: “He [Zuckerberg] said we're going to...

Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old Scale AI founder now heading to Meta Platforms’ (NASDAQ:META) new "super-intelligence" lab says artificial-intelligence models already possess insights that science cannot match and that makes it “a strange time to be a scientist, but an exciting time for...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) raised concerns over Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s potential stablecoin revival plans. What Happened: The Senators voiced their apprehensions to Zuckerberg in a...

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, unhappy with the company's setbacks in AI innovation, is reportedly handpicking a new team of top researchers and engineers to work on artificial general intelligence. What Happened: Zuckerberg is personally steering efforts to recruit...

Meta Platforms, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says the tech industry won't close the gap to human-level intelligence by scaling today's large language models and piling on more parameters. What Happened: "We are not going to get to human-level AI by just scaling up LLMs. This...

Shareholders of Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) rejected a proposal to consider adding Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) to the company’s balance sheet. What Happened: A proposal for a “Bitcoin Treasury Assessment” garnered only 3.92 million votes in favor, reflecting about 0.1% of the...

A new internal communications document from Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) shows that the company is about to launch brick-and-mortar locations and hire store staff shortly. What Happened: Meta's internal memo, reviewed by Business Insider, outlines plans for growing its retail footprint....

Matt Cole, CEO of Strive Asset Management, publicly called on tech behemoth Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) on Wednesday to buy Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for its balance sheet. What happened: Cole dialed the company from the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, listing the benefits of adding Bitcoin...

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed that social media is not inherently harmful, arguing that the effects of online platforms depend mainly on how people use them. What Happened: Appearing on the ‘This Past Weekend’ podcast, Zuckerberg pushed back when host Theo Von...

Mark Zuckerberg says the secret of his calendar management is leaving it empty, and not packing it tight. "I try to generally keep a bunch of time open," the Meta (NASDAQ:META) chief told Stripe co-founder John Collison, adding that over-scheduling drives him "in a bad mood … I just like explode."...