Mark Zuckerberg spent «$45 billion on the metaverse in 4 years — the same amount Musk paid for Twitter
It’s been more than 4 years since Mark Zuckerberg changed the Facebook brand to Meta and invested tens of billions in his vision of the meta-universe — but the company has shown little in action to match this amount, raising doubts about the viability of the strategy.
Meta has launched the first two Llama 4 models: multimodal, fast and powerful — two more on the way
Meta presented the first two models from the Llama 4 multimodal family: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. There will be four models in the family in total. Two of them have already been launched, and the rest will appear later. According to Meta, all of them were trained on a large amount of unannotated text, images, and videos to gain extensive…
The site allows you to find books that was pirated by Meta for training Llama AI
In January 2025, during the trial, the process it turned out that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for Llama AI training has illegally used millions of books. Now you can find out which ones.
Facebook employees secretly founded a «feminist fight club» because they didn’t feel supported by their boss
On Tuesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of global public policy at Meta (at the time the company was called Facebook), published a book with her memoirs describing 6 years of working for Zuckerberg — and, among other things, the activities of a secret women’s club created in 2017.
Meta maintains secret blacklists: fired employees will never be able to get a job in the company again
Meta has created secret blacklists of fired employees that even top managers cannot influence.
Meta fired 20 employees for leaking information to the media — and promises to cut «even more» spies
On Thursday, Meta announced the dismissal of 20 employees, allegedly for disclosing confidential internal information to journalists.
Meta increased bonuses for bosses by 200% — amidst layoffs of 4000 «inefficient» employees
To party like that, Mark Zuckerberg thought, and tripled bonuses for Meta executives — it would have been fine if ordinary employees hadn’t already faced layoffs and option cuts.
Zuckerberg promises to bring back the greatness of Facebook, but we don’t believe him. We recall why the social network is disliked around the world
Meta (until 2021, Facebook) is one of the most influential companies of the 21st century, which started as a closed student social network, but with its growth came problems: accusations of interference in politics, selling personal data, and manipulating algorithms, which gradually undermined user trust. Advertising overload and an outdated format…
Facebook calls Linux «a cybersecurity threat» and bans people who mention the OS
It seems that Facebook is now banning some posts or threads that mention the word «Linux».
Instagram will pay up to $50,000 for «exclusive» Reels — published before TikTok
Instagram, amid uncertainty with TikTok, has launched a new bonus program that offers cash rewards to creators who publish videos on Reels earlier than on other platforms.
To replace CapCut: Meta launches video editing program Edits
Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the launch of a video editing program called Meta Edits. Currently, the app is being tested by “selected bloggers,” while it is planned to be released to the public in February.
Meta is laying off about 3,500 employees whom Zuckerberg has identified as «inefficient»
Meta announced the first round of layoffs in 2025, in which 5% of the workforce will be reduced. According to the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the layoffs will primarily target people with “low efficiency.”
Zuckerberg on Apple: «Steve Jobs invented the iPhone, and they’ve been sitting on it for 20 years»
In Joe Rogan’s podcast, Mark Zuckerberg made several interesting statements, among other things, paying great attention to Apple.
Meta cancels diversity programs due to «changing political landscape»
Meta has joined the list of American companies that have abandoned internal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Instagram targets ads to people who have used Meta AI — with their faces in «strange» situations
If you’ve ever edited a photo using Meta AI, you might easily see your face in one of the ads on Instagram.
«Brick» Quest: Meta update turns headsets into junk, but company promises solution «for everyone»
Meta has updated the message on its Quest support page to indicate that due to a «software update issue, the Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest 3S headsets are unusable. According to the company, while most «users are able to use their devices normally, Meta «is actively working to resolve the issue for all» users.
Facebook to introduce artificial users based on AI Studio
If your Facebook feed isn’t already cluttered enough with trashy communities, generated images, meaningless videos, and the like, Meta has another toy for you — AI users.
Threads social network reaches 300 million users
Meta’s social network app Threads has grown to 300 million users, with over 100 million people using the service daily. Mark Zuckerberg announced a new phase, stating that “the momentum of Threads continues to be strong.”
«How Libra» was destroyed: the former Meta crypto project head reveals the reasons behind the collapse
David Marcus, the former head of Meta’s Libra stablecoin project, said that the reason for the failure was not economic or technical problems but political pressure from regulators. In a post titled «How Libra was destroyed», he described how the company had to cancel its ambitious plans due to problems at the highest level.
Artificial intelligence has used over 140,000 movies and TV shows for training — all episodes of «Breaking Bad» and «The Sopranos» including
Website The Atlantic examined a dataset used to train AI models owned by Apple, Anthropic, and Nvidia, among others, and found that industry fears about the new technology are far from unfounded.
Mark Zuckerberg released a song in a duet with rapper T-Pain — but Instagram seems to be blocking it
While Elon Musk builds his political careerMark Zuckerberg is trying his hand at the music business.
A rare species of bees prevented Mark Zuckerberg from building a nuclear data center
Mark Zuckerberg faces an unexpected obstacle in the competition to create infrastructure for artificial intelligence — a rare species of bee that lives at the site of the potential construction of the nuclear-powered Meta data center.
Meta develops its own AI-based search engine to reduce dependence on Google and Bing
Meta Platforms is working on a search engine based on artificial intelligence to reduce dependence on Google and Bing. About reports The Information, citing a person involved in the development of the strategy.
Meta fired 20 employees for «fraud» with food vouchers — they were spent on laundry detergent and acne patches
Meta fired about two dozen employees in Los Angeles for using food vouchers to buy personal or household items (pads, laundry detergent, or wine glasses). As noted by Arstechnica,ome employees pooled their money to buy more expensive goods, or ordered food at home in the evening instead of at the office.
Modified Meta Ray-Ban glasses find all the data of a stranger behind the rim
Two students used Meta smart glasses to quickly identify any stranger on the street.
Spooky packages with «six-fingered» gloves were sent to Meta and OpenAI executives
Six-fingered gloves — is a reference to the results of neural networks, which often add extra fingers to people in their images.
Meta fined almost $102 million for improper password storage
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed a fine of $101.5 million on Meta. The reason was a violation of the rules for storing user passwords.
Meta showed Orion — AR glasses with artificial intelligence and projectors for hologram display
During the Meta Connect event, the company revealed information about its «fully holographic» augmented reality glasses, which it now calls Orion. Meta is putting a lot of technology into this device, which is not yet on the market.
Meta updated Ray-Ban smart glasses — more AI with «live» translation, reminders, and QR code scanning
Ray-Ban smart glasses by Meta, first introduced last yearreceived a major update that should make the device even smarter.
Meta showed the «budget» Quest 3S headset — Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip, 2.5 hours of battery life, and $300 price tag
Meta has officially unveiled its new Quest 3S headset — a mix of Quest 2 and Quest 3, but at a lower price.
Less than three years have passed: Meta bans Russian state media from Facebook and Instagram
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, has announced that it is banning RT and other Russian state media from its platforms.
Meta AI chatbot gave Business Insider journalist’s number as his own — now man is being terrorized by strangers
Business Insider journalist Rob Price discoveredthat something went wrong with the privacy of his personal number when he was added to a group chat and bombarded with random questions in Spanish.
Meta has closed Ready at Dawn — the 21-year-old studio behind The Order: 1886 and God of War: Chains of Olympus
The studio was acquired by Meta only a year and a half ago.
Instagram bloggers can create chatbots to respond to messages from followers
The next time you message an author on Instagram — know that artificial intelligence can communicate with you.
Shaheed — «the most moderated» word on Facebook, but Meta won’t ban it anymore
The complete ban did not take into account the linguistic complexity of the Arabic word «shaheed», which has several meanings in translation.
«But we are better than Google and OpenAI»: Meta prevents AI from training on Facebook and Instagram posts
Meta Corporation has announced that starting today, it will start training its AI on Facebook and Instagram posts published by citizens of the UK or the European Union.
What happened to Facebook? Meta social networks are drowning in fakes, and generated photos are labeled as real
You’ve probably come across posts on Facebook lately asking you to like your handsome brothers fighting for Ukraine or your grandmother who tied up the tankand baked the world’s largest cake — and if you are familiar with the art of neural networks, you can easily recognize a fake. However, tens of thousands of users actually believe…
Microsoft accused of secretly collecting and storing children’s data
The Austrian privacy law group Noyb is suing Microsoft over the use of Microsoft 365 Education software in schools.
Meta has launched an ad on Instagram that can’t be missed
Advertising is Meta’s biggest source of revenue, so the company plans to make it even more intrusive on Instagram.
AI slaves: African workers accuse OpenAI, Meta, and others of inhumane working conditions — open letter to Biden
AI language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are partially powered by low-wage workers. Contractors in poor countries pay small amounts of money to correct chatbot data, label images, etc. On May 22, 97 African workers who train artificial intelligence or moderate content for companies such as Meta and OpenAI published an open letter to President…
Ex-manager of Twitter X (the one who slept in the office), now works at Meta and tells interesting things about Elon Musk
Do you remember the woman who slept in Twitter’s X office and justified Elon Musk’s methods, and she was fired anyway? Well, now Esther Crawford is working for Mark Zuckerberg at Meta, which she talks about said on Instagram. Crawford was XTwitter’s director of product management for more than two years before she was fired in…
Meta presents Meta Horizon OS and announces new VR headsets from Xbox, Asus, and Lenovo
Meta represents Meta Horizon OS operating system and is joining forces with Microsoft to create a limited edition Meta Quest virtual reality headset «inspired by Xbox». The companies did not disclose any details about this headset, but it seems that it will be the current Meta Quest model or some future headset that will be bundled with an Xbox…
Artificial intelligence Meta joins a Facebook parent group and announces that it has a child too
And he doesn’t even know about Viber chats…
Instagram will blur the nudes sent to teens in Direct
Instagram will test features that blur messages containing nude images. The main goal of this innovation is to protect teenagers and prevent contact with potential fraudsters.
Meta updated Messenger — shared albums, HD photo support, and sending files up to 100 MB
Users can now create albums of photos and videos in public Messenger chats — to do this, select several individual images from the dialog (by tapping or holding) and activate the «Add to album» option.
Mark Zuckerberg became the third richest man in the world with $186.9 billion and surpassed Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg has surpassed Elon Musk to become the third richest person in the world. Back in early March, Musk was ranked first in the billionaire index Bloomberg, but dropped to fourth after the announcement of the cancellation (which Musk later denied). Earlier in the week, it was reported that Tesla’s fell over the past three months.
Meta’s generative artificial intelligence creates images of pairs of people of the same race, even when the queries are directly opposite
Meta’s generative artificial intelligence tends to create images of people of the same race, even if you explicitly specify otherwise. For example, for the queries «Asian and Caucasian friend» or «Asian and white wife», the image generator creates images of people of the same race.
Canadian school boards sue TikTok, Meta, and SnapChat — platforms interfere with children’s lives and learning
The four largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta, and SnapChat. They claim that social media platforms interfere with the learning process. The plaintiffs are seeking damages of more than 4 billion Canadian dollars ($2.9 billion) for disrupting student learning and the education system.…
Zuckerberg was photographed wearing Jensen Huang’s new leather jacket and compared him to «Taylor Swift in the world of technology»
It seems that Zuckerberg likes Huang’s style, but the Nvidia boss looks a bit embarrassed in the picture, as he had to try on Mark’s sheepskin coat instead.
Mark Zuckerberg «recruits» Google DeepMind researchers through personal emails, — The Information
Meta CEO is looking for artificial intelligence talent.
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