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Milliardenforderung an Zuckerberg & Co.: Verfahren außergerichtlich beigelegt
Mark Zuckerberg und weitere Entscheidungsträger sollten sich für die finanziellen Folgen des laxen Datenschutzes bei Facebook verantworten. Dem entgehen sie.

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars https://futurism.com/lawyer-zuckerberg-ai?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=topic/artificial…

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars
A legal expert found that Meta's AI is able to spit out entire portions of books verbatim — and if he's right, Meta is in huge trouble.

Schadenersatz für Datenschutzskandal? Zuckerberg vor Gericht
Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel, Mark Andreessen u.a. stehen vor Gericht, verklagt auf Milliarden wegen laschen Datenschutzes bei Facebook.

This increasingly reminds me of the 19th-century “we can solve all problems by building bigger guns” proto-bros that appear in several of Jules Vernes’s stories.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manh…

Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Jessica Lessin's softball TITV interview with Mark Zuckerberg without disclosing their close personal ties raises thorny ethical issues and insults her newsroom (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/jessica-lessin-mark-zuckerberg-friends-interview

The Information Gap
Jessica Lessin’s glitchy Mark Zuckerberg interview raised eyebrows in tech-media circles—but not just because of the technical failure.

Meta investors, Zuckerberg settle $8 billion privacy lawsuit tied to Cambridge Analytica scandal https://therecord.media/meta-investors-zuckerberg-settle-privacy-lawsuit

This increasingly reminds me of the 19th-century “we can solve all problems by building bigger guns” proto-bros that appear in several of Jules Vernes’s stories.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manh…

The trial for an $8B lawsuit by Meta investors against Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders opens over claims tied to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-privacy-cambridge-analyti…

Meta meint es ernst: Wie Zuckerberg die KI-Wette gewinnen kann
Meta setzt nicht nur auf KI, Meta schraubt an der absoluten Vorherrschaft bei KI – und ist dabei auch noch besonders attraktiv. Eine Analyse von Eva-Maria Weiß.

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is one of the most depressing places online
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-agreed-pay…

Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal. Zuckerberg wanted Wang to join Meta and was willing to pay billions of dollars to ...

This is absolutely fucked.. there's a public discovery feed of people talking to Meta AI.
How's that thing even existing
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-chatbot-discover-feed-depressing-why-20…

Typical #Mastodon (Fediverse?) moment:

• a supportive video on the #Fediverse is referenced in a post. In this case the video is on YouTube...
• one person in the comments saying that the video should really be on PeerTube instead
• @…

Saving the Lost Silent Zuckerberg Interview With the Amazing Power of AI https://www.404media.co/saving-the-lost-silent-zuckerberg-interview-with-the-amazing-power-of-ai/

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
"This is like the AI equivalent of the Marshall Plan."
https://futurism.com/meta-scaleai-superintelligence

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy "superintelligence group."

#Meta hat mit „localhost tracking“ ein technisches #Schlupfloch genutzt, das selbst im Inkognito-Modus, mit #VPN und gelöschten

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life—Now He Wants His AI to Run It (Gizmodo, 30 June 2025)
https://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-already-knows-your-life-now-he-wants-his-ai-to-run-it-2000622496

Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It
In a sweeping new plan, the Meta CEO is assembling an AI "Avengers team" to build not just a better chatbot, but a personalized intelligence that anticipates your needs, manages your schedule, and guides your decisions. Welcome to Life-as-a-Service.

Abgeworbener Apple-KI-Experte: Meta zahlt ihm angeblich 200 Millionen US-Dollar
Mark Zuckerberg will mit Macht zur AGI – und gibt dafür richtig viel Geld aus. Ruoming Pang, Ex-Grundmodell-Leiter bei Apple, profitiert davon offenbar massiv.

tänk om mastodon men socialdemokratiskt https://www.flamman.se/mina-bebisbilder-ska-inte-gora-zuckerberg-rikare/

Mina bebisbilder ska inte göra Zuckerberg rikare
För Meta är varje bild på min nyfödda bebis en datapunkt i ett psykologiskt experiment. SVT och SR har tjänat oss väl – nu är det dags för SSM: Sveriges Sociala Medium. Och det borde vara exakt lika tråkigt som det låter

Capitalism has given you Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel… Have you said thank you once?

As the AI talent wars reach a fever pitch,
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top tier recruits to Meta’s new superintelligence lab
pay packages of up to $300 million over four years,
with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year.
https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/pos

Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-mark-zuckerberg-security-b2781215.html

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building multi-gigawatt datacenter "clusters", starting with a massive datacenter called Prometheus that will come online in 2026 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

Meta investiert 14,3 Milliarden US-Dollar für 49 Prozent von Scale AI
Scale-AI-CEO Alexandr Wang gründet ein neues KI-Team bei Meta berichtet künftig direkt an Mark Zuckerberg. Das kostet einiges.

Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext/careless-people-meta-mark-zuckerberg/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazin…

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book
Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

Metas KI-Verlockungen tragen Früchte: Wichtiger Apple-Mitarbeiter abgeworben
100 Millionen US-Dollar und mehr bietet Mark Zuckerberg KI-Spezialisten angeblich. Nun angelte sich Meta einen wichtigen Apple-Mitarbeiter.

"Localhost tracking" explicado https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

KI: Meta baut angeblich neues Team für Entwicklung einer Superintelligenz auf
Mark Zuckerberg umgarnt offenbar KI-Experten, dazu gehört Alexandr Wang, Gründer von Scale AI. Meta will das Statup übernehmen.
…

In Donald Trump’s White House, the easiest way to avoid being surprised is to remember that anything can happen.
Air Force leaders learned that lesson earlier this year when they arrived for a 💥top-secret briefing 💥with Trump in the Oval Office,
which according to NBC News was scheduled for them to discuss plans for America’s sixth-generation fighter aircraft, dubbed the F-47 in a nod to Trump’s status as the 47th President of the United States.
As the generals were going o…

Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report
Facebook mogul’s sudden appearance is increasingly typical of freewheeling West Wing during Donald Trump’s second term, which president has reportedly nicknamed ‘Grand Central Terminal’

So many problems in this world might never have appeared if Mark Zuckerberg had gone to therapy.

Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: Meta's focus on "personal super intelligence", how large compensation packages pale in comparison to AI infra investments, AI glasses, more (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/arti…

Inside Zuckerberg’s AI Playbook: Billions in Compute, a Talent Arms Race, and a New Vision for Meta
When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerbergto talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz. We covered all that. But over the ...

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-meta-nickname-trump-b2774168.html

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

If you think AI is more about human flourishing than advertising, just look at Zuckerberg's latest earnings call: "AI will make advertising a meaningfully larger share of global GDP than it is today"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-ai-

The metaverse is going great!

Meta Users Feel Less Safe Since It Weakened ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy, Survey Finds https://www.404media.co/meta-users-feel-less-safe-since-it-weakened-hateful-conduct-policy-survey-finds/

When you surrender to Trump, you endanger me, Columbia, Skadden, Paramount, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.

Now recalling that I had two imaginary friends, I think one was called Angel; they lived in room in the wall of the corridor outside my bedroom. Intrigued now to research childhood imaginary friends: the type of people who had them: https://www.reddit.com/r/singu…

Mark Zuckerberg's hiring blitz for top AI talent is spurring other leading AI scientists to join Meta in the race to build "superintelligent" AI (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

Meta is preparing to unveil a new artificial intelligence research lab
dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,”
a hypothetical A.I. system that exceeds the powers of the human brain,
as the tech giant jockeys to stay competitive in the technology race,
according to four people with the knowledge of the company’s plans.
Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28,
the founder and chief executive of the A.I. start-up Scale AI,
to join the new lab, the people s…

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated at Meta's AI shortfalls, is personally assembling a team of AI experts and met engineers at his homes in recent weeks (Bloomberg)

»Einstige Zukunftstechnologie – Wieso das Versprechen von Metaverse unerfüllt geblieben ist:
Metaverse ist von einem Begriff, der in aller Munde war, zu einem vergessenen Konzept geworden, das von der KI verdrängt wurde. Was bleibt von der einstigen Vision einer grossen virtuellen Parallelwelt von Zuckerberg und Co.?«
Die übliche rethorische Frage dazu: Wem.überrascht dies nun und wie sieht eure Web-KI-Zukunft aus?
🤷‍♂️

Wieso das Versprechen von Metaverse unerfüllt geblieben ist
Der Hype um Metaverse ist längst verflogen. Was bleibt von der einstigen Vision einer grossen virtuellen Parallelwelt?

Zie link in het draadje.
https://mstdn.social/@Grutjes/114575316022315163

Grutjes (@Grutjes@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Heb je nog een al dan niet inactief account bij META? Super belangrijk! Dit is de laatste dag dat je kunt voorkomen dat Zuckerberg alles wat je bent en post kan gebruiken om zijn rottige AI te trainen! Het is super simpel. Klik op de FB-link hieronder. FB heeft daar je mailadres al ingevuld. Je hoeft alleen maar op verzenden te klikken en je bent klaar. Je hoeft verder niks uit te leggen of in te vullen. Doe dat alsjeblieft. https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/635919108…

Source: Mark Zuckerberg has, on 10 occasions, offered to pay AI research talent up to $300M over four years, with $100M in compensation for the first year (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-offer-top-ai-talent-…

Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent
The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.

Meridith is so cool. It's unfathomable that so many people prefer Zuckerberg's surveillance software.
Here the Signal president talks about privacy and ai and data sovereignty.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg

This MAGA nickname is being whispered by Facebook staff behind their boss's back - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/zuckerberg-trump-2672407139/

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg and his lieutenants have discussed "de-investing" in Llama in favor of AI models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html

Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s recent public support for Donald Trump did not come as a shock to those who know or have closely worked with him.
Dozens of people who have either worked with or known Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that the CEO’s more public shift toward Trump is just Zuckerberg displaying the more “authentic” version of himself to the world,
even though he was once known to support liberal ideology and voiced opposition to Trump’s policies during the first admini…

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

Now recalling that I had two imaginary friends, I think one was called Angel; they lived in room in the wall of the corridor outside my bedroom. Intrigued now to research childhood imaginary friends: the type of people who had them: https://www.reddit.com/r/singu…

"The Social Network" bekommt eine Fortsetzung
Mit Jesse Eisenberg als Mark Zuckerberg war der Facebook-Film "The Social Network" ein großer Erfolg. Jetzt arbeitet Aaron Sorkin an einem zweiten Teil. 

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…

Such a wild technical achievement in privacy invasion: Facebook app runs a localhost server so their tracker on web pages can ping it with session id and identify you -- even in Incognito or on VPN.
Don't trust apps with excessive permissions!
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localh…

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/07/11/meta-superintellige…

Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Data
Meta’s shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine. Despite seemingly unlimited resources, Meta has been fal…

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684120/threads-direct…

Threads is finally getting DMs
Threads will soon test its own private messaging system that’s distinct from Instagram’s, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina.

Sources: Meta plans to unveil an AI lab dedicated to "superintelligence", led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and is offering seven- to nine-figure compensation (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/meta-new-ai…

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.

Interviews with 45 sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's transformation into "MAGA Mark"; sources say there were talks about Zuckerberg becoming a Trump adviser (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a86f5ca3-f841-4cdc-9376-304e085c4cfd

“Let them eat bullshit”
– Mark Zuckerberg, probably
#AI #habitatLoss #resourceDepletion #BigTech

In a memo, Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires; Nat Friedman will partner with Alexandr Wang to lead the new group (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Source: Meta hired four more OpenAI researchers, including key contributors to o1-mini and o3-mini, as Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-hires-four-openai-r…

Meta Hires Four More OpenAI Researchers
Meta Platforms is hiring four more OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort to catch up to his AI rivals. The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren, have each agreed to join, according to a ...

A look at "The List", a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-recruitin

#Facebook front office grabbed great publicity from its bold #billion dollar public #pledge to help solve the #BayArea

Here’s where the money Meta spent on its $1 billion pledge for affordable housing has gone
Executives at Facebook’s parent company in 2022 stopped committing funding to the initiative, slowing progress.

Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like "someone has broken into our home and stolen something" and OpenAI is "recalibrating comp" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-meta-leadership-talent…

OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: 'Someone Has Broken Into Our Home'
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

At an all-hands, Andrew Bosworth says Sam Altman is not happy about Meta getting OpenAI talent and is "being dishonest" about Meta offering $100M bonuses (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newslet…

Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI
A top Meta exec called OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “dishonest” for saying that Mark Zuckerberg is offering researchers $100 million bonuses to leave.

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg discussed a possible acquisition with Runway AI; the deal talks never reached a formal offer level (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/meta-held-deal-talks-with-st…

Sources: Meta tried to buy Safe Superintelligence earlier this year; Zuckerberg moved to recruit SSI CEO Daniel Gross after Ilya Sutskever rebuffed the offer (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/meta-tried-to-buy-s…

Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO
Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company's AI team, according to sources.