Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X
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Apple’s Top AI Engineer Jumps Ship to Meta in Poaching Blow: Report
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Apple’s artificial intelligence efforts just took another hit. According to a report from Bloomberg, Ruoming Pang—the executive leading Apple’s foundation models team—is leaving the company to join Meta. He’s the latest in a string of high-profile hires b…
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Apple Loses Key AI Executive to Meta's Multimillion-Dollar Hiring Spree
Juli Clover / macrumors - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been offering AI engineers massive pay packages to poach them from other companies, and a key Apple engineering manager has decided to take the deal, according to Bloomberg.Ruoming Pang, who manages Apple's foundation models t…
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Meta Backs EU-Wide ‘Digital Majority Age’ to Bolster Child Safety
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Meta supports a pan-European 'digital majority age' requiring parental consent, sparking a debate with Google over who is responsible for online child safety.The post Meta Backs EU-Wide ‘Digital Majority Age’ to Bolster Child Safety appeared first on WinB…
Back to Top / Friday, July 4, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 9394 / 3 stories in 8 months
Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross joins Meta’s new AI lab
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. has hired prominent artificial intelligence executive Daniel Gross and may reportedly buy a stake in his venture capital firm. Until last week, Gross (pictured) was the Chief Executive Officer of Safe Superintelligence Inc., a well-fun…
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Meta tests chatbots with proactive messaging to boost retention
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Meta is reportedly testing proactive features for its AI chatbots that let them send messages to users without being prompted, according to Business Insider.The article Meta tests chatbots with proactive messaging to boost retention appeared first on THE …
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Threads now has DMs
Emma Roth / theverge - Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone. You can now privately message other users on the Meta-owned X rival, though Threads will only allow DMs between your followers or mutual followers on Instagram to start. You can send a DM on T…
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Zuckerberg Announces Meta Superintelligence Labs with Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as Lead
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Meta launches Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by poached talent from rivals like OpenAI, after a chaotic 'buy or poach' strategy and the fallout from its Scale AI deal.The post Zuckerberg Announces Meta Superintelligence Labs with Former Scale AI C…
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Meta shares hit all-time high as Mark Zuckerberg goes on AI hiring blitz
cnbc - Meta shares hit a record high on Monday, underscoring investor interest in the company's new AI superintelligence group.
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OpenAI adjusts pay following Meta’s talent raid
OpenAI executives have fired back at Meta’s aggressive recruitment, instituting a sudden recalibration of employee compensation to stem the brain drain. Internal memos suggest a blend of irritation and urgency, as the rival tech giant’s poaching tactics force OpenAI to tighten its defenses in the ongoing AI talent war.
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Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI
Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.
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Meta wants to upload every photo you have to its cloud to give you AI suggestions
appleinsider - Meta's latest feature gives Facebook the power to continuously upload your private photos to its cloud — even the ones you never intended to share. Here's how to stop it.Image credit: MetaIn a time where internet users are goaded into giving away their da…
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Meta pursues $29bn funding drive for AI data centres expansion
Meta is deep in discussions with private equity and credit giants to raise $29 billion aimed at fueling its AI data centre expansion. The significant push underscores the company’s ambition to scale its technological backbone and outpace competitors—because clearly, when billions are on the line, playing it small just isn’t an option.
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Meta in talks to acquire voice cloning startup Play AI
Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Meta is in talks to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.
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Threads now has a Hidden Words setting that's separate from Instagram
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Threads and Instagram are continuing to decouple. Meta's social network has updated its Hidden Words setting to make it separate from Instagram. Prior to this update, users had one global Hidden Words setting that impacted both platforms.For the uninitiat…
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Meta poaches three leading AI researchers from OpenAI
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Meta has hired three top AI researchers from OpenAI: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai.The article Meta poaches three leading AI researchers from OpenAI appeared first on THE DECODER.
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The Social Network Sequel Confirmed, Focusing on Recent Facebook Controversies
Tom Phillips / ign - The Social Network, the film which told the story of how Facebook was founded, will be getting a sequel.
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Meta wins AI copyright case filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors
Mariella Moon / engadget - Federal Judge Vince Chhabria has ruled in favor of Meta over the 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, who sued the company for training its large language model on their published work without obtaining consent. His court has granted summary judgme…
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WhatsApp Now Summarizes Your Unread Messages Using AI
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - WhatsApp is making it easier to catch up on conversations you've missed with a new AI-powered feature that summarizes unread messages. The Meta-owned messaging app now lets users tap on unread message counts to "Summarize privately" and get quick, bullete…
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Meta’s recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers
Connie Loizos / techcrunch - In the fight for top AI talent, Meta just reportedly snagged a win, poaching three OpenAI researchers despite rival Sam Altman’s public mockery of Mark Zuckerberg’s lavish hiring tactics. The latest victory in Zuckerberg’s widely-reported recruiting blitz…
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