@Techmeme@techhub.socialInterviews 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@muz4now@mastodon.worldLawyers 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…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThis 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10 OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-recrui
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJessica 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
@newsie@darktundra.xyzMeta investors, Zuckerberg settle $8 billion privacy lawsuit tied to Cambridge Analytica scandal https://therecord.media/meta-investors-zuckerberg-settle-privacy-lawsuit
@macandi@social.heise.de
@pre@boing.worldMeridith 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
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThis 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…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThis 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…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesThis 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@profcarroll@federate.socialThe Cambridge Analytica Saga is finally over. Meta/Facebook settles its $8B shareholder lawsuit in Delaware Chancery court today for alleged misconduct by Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Andressen, etc. during the scandal.
@muz4now@mastodon.worldMark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialTypical #Mastodon (Fediverse?) moment:
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialZuckerberg'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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzSaving 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/
@wfryer@mastodon.cloudMark 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
@laxsill@social.spejset.orgtänk om mastodon men socialdemokratiskt https://www.flamman.se/mina-bebisbilder-ska-inte-gora-zuckerberg-rikare/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Meta hat mit „localhost tracking“ ein technisches #Schlupfloch genutzt, das selbst im Inkognito-Modus, mit #VPN und gelöschten
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta 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…
@servelan@newsie.socialMilitary 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
@cdarwin@c.imAs 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
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCapitalism has given you Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel… Have you said thank you once?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe 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…
@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr @macandi@social.heise.de @muz4now@mastodon.worldMeta 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza @cdarwin@c.imIn 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…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alZuckerberg’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
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgSo many problems in this world might never have appeared if Mark Zuckerberg had gone to therapy.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialThe metaverse is going great!
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI: 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.
…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@jonippolito@digipres.clubIf 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-
@macandi@social.heise.de
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldWhen you surrender to Trump, you endanger me, Columbia, Skadden, Paramount, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMark 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
@camerontw@social.coopNow 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMark 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…
@cdarwin@c.imMeta 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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»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?
🤷♂️
@paul@social.van.buu.reZie link in het draadje.
https://mstdn.social/@Grutjes/114575316022315163
@newsie@darktundra.xyzMeta 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/
@servelan@newsie.socialThis MAGA nickname is being whispered by Facebook staff behind their boss's back - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/zuckerberg-trump-2672407139/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: 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-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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
@cdarwin@c.imMeta 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…
@camerontw@social.coopNow 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMark 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.social @aral@mastodon.ar.alAt 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…
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeSuch 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMark 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al“Let them eat bullshit”
– Mark Zuckerberg, probably
#AI #habitatLoss #resourceDepletion #BigTech
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA 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
@lilmikesf@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta'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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt 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…
