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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

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.

Following on previous comments alluding to the big payment systems as a hegemonic cudgel, here's something about a Brazilian system being investigated by the US government for unfair competition.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250

How Brazil's innovative 'Pix' payment system is angering Trump and Zuckerberg
The Pix instant payment system is used by nearly everyone in Brazil, from street vendors to major retailers. In a recent op-ed, economist Paul Krugman even touted it as the “future of money”. Its success has sparked global interest and some political tension after US President Donald Trump launched an investigation into the system.

Sources: the researcher who declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B package over six years is Thinking Machines co-founder and ex-Meta staffer Andrew Tulloch (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-zuckerber

The metaverse is going great!

Meta steigert Umsatz und Gewinne weiter, baut auf persönliche Superintelligenz
Dank Werbung wachsen die Einnahmen des Facebook-Konzerns schier unaufhörlich. Zuckerberg verspricht persönliche Superintelligenz für alle. Die Aktie springt.

It's kinda fun to see "AI" people basically fleecing Meta/Zuckerberg. bad people scamming bad people is just the perfect 2025 vibe
(Original title: Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave)
https://arstechnica…

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.

OpenAI sent subpoenas to AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-a…

OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them
The multibillion-dollar AI giant thinks it's critics are part of a billionaire conspiracy. We examined the evidence

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Immer wieder Abgänge: Nächster Apple-KI-Experte geht zu Meta
Eigentlich hatte Mark Zuckerberg beschlossen, für sein KI-Team nicht mehr ganz so aggressiv zu rekrutieren. Doch nun kommt ein weiterer Apple-Neuzugang.

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…

This seems kind of BAD, am I right? 😬
I am afraid for Canada, sharing the world's longest common border with these tech terrorists.

Zuckerberg says superintelligence is in sight, and, when personal superintelligence comes, context-aware devices like glasses will become our primary computers (Mark Zuckerberg/Meta)
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/

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 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…

Mark Zuckerberg says "We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating" new risks posed by superintelligence and "careful about what we choose to open source" (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-walks-back-open…

Die Schlange vor der guten Eisdiele (Jones im Akazienkiez) ist absurd lang. Danke, Foodinfluencer auf Insta. Im Grunde enthält mir Zuckerberg die gute Eiskrem vor, grrr 😡

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/

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.

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."

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)

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

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…

"Meta vient d’engager Robby Starbuck comme conseiller pour lutter contre les biais de son intelligence artificielle."
On nage en plein délire.
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/la-croisade-anti-woke-de-mark-zuckerberg-devient-delirante…

La croisade anti-woke de Mark Zuckerberg devient délirante
CHRONIQUE Meta vient d’engager Robby Starbuck comme conseiller pour lutter contre les biais de son intelligence artificielle. Pas forcément l’homme le plus objectif…

"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. 

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…

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…

»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?

Mark Zuckerberg announces that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will be chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-details-metas-superintelligence-plans

Mark Zuckerberg details Meta's superintelligence plans
Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on Threads.

The 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.

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

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

Nach dem "200-Millionen-Job": Meta AI wirbt weitere Apple-KI-Mitarbeiter ab
Mark Zuckerberg sucht weiter KI-Experten zur Entwicklung einer "Superintelligenz". Nun kommen weitere Apple-Mitarbeiter zu Meta.

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.

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

I am the eye in the sky, looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules, dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don't need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind (looking at you)
I can read your mind (looking at you)
I can read your mind (looking at you)
I can read your mind
_____________________________________
Who knew Alan Parsons wrote about Facebook, decades before Zuckerberg went to college……

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
• @…

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg mulls more shake-ups to Meta's AI strategy; he lost faith in Meta's AI team during the controversy over allegations it gamed benchmarks (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/meta-ai-q2-earnings.html

Meta's AI spending spree is Wall Street's focus in second-quarter earnings
Meta investors will be scrutinizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI hiring blitz during the company's second-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

#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.

Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-ai-recruiting-spree-thinking-m…

Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target
Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

[Ctrl F "fairness doctrine" ... "Phrase not found."]
https://www.thedissident.news/the-oligarchs-coup-against-the-free-press-is-happening-now/

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg acting in concert with a Trump-led authoritarian political project.

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.

Worüber deutsche #Oligarchen, Selbstbezeichnung "#Familienunternehmer", gerne reden: #Sozialabbau, öffentliche

Google und Meta rücken bei KI zusammen
Metas eigene Rechenzentren reichen Mark Zuckerberg nicht aus. Um KI-Dienste schneller an den Start zu bringen, will er Milliarden bei Google ausgeben.
https://www.

Mein ganz persönlicher Blick auf die Blogkultur 2025. Ich schreibe für mich – und um gelesen zu werden. Doch viele Freunde und Babyboomer antworten lieber auf Facebook als hier im Blog. Also gehe ich den Spagat ein. Trotz Zuckerberg. #Blogwochen2025

Zwischen Blog, Facebook & Mastodon – Über Kommentare, Reichweite und Kompromisse
Mein ganz persönlicher Blick auf die Blogkultur 2025. Ich schreibe für mich – und um gelesen zu werden. Doch viele Freunde und Babyboomer antworten lieber auf Facebook als hier im Blog. Also gehe i…

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 ...

Anyone still think having Facebook or Meta around (or whatever that asshole Zuckerberg wants to call his bullshit company this week) is good for the fediverse? And they're making Social Network 2 to further glorify him. Fuck all this shit. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebo

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI
The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal.

Ach mansen, ga toch weg van Facebook. (En Google, Apple, Amazon en Microsoft)
Zuckerberg speelt Monopoly door halve villawijk op te kopen, tot onvr…
https://archive.ph/BFZHQ

One of the most worrying things I find about LLMs at the moment is how normalised it's becoming to just chat to it like a friend or confidant and even so far as to ask it for therapy. I don't mean amongst tech bros and nerds, I mean amongst normal people.
It just seems so reckless. Aside from the problem of hallucinations, these things are built to have an agenda. No sane person should ever ever ever ask Zuckerberg, Musk or Altman for a mental health vibe check

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

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

Veel mensen beginnen vragen te stellen over de AI functie binnen Whatsapp en de veiligheid/privacy daaromtrent. Terecht, maar de realiteit is dat we ook nu al geen enkele garantie/controle/waarborg hebben mbt de beveiliging/privacy van Meta. We moeten Zuckerberg gewoon op zijn blauwe ogen geloven.
Dus switch naar andere platformen als het om enigszins vertrouwelijke informatie gaat of je beter beschermd wil zijn.

Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/04/meta-fact-check-community-notes-test-facebook-instagram/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU0MjgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1NjYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTQyODAwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijc5Mjk0ZjQ5LTdiMmMtNGUyNi04ZjAwLWQyNGU0M2ZiYmY4MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMDgvMDQvbWV0YS1mYWN0LWNoZWNrLWNvbW11bml0eS1ub3Rlcy10ZXN0LWZhY2Vib29rLWluc3RhZ3JhbS8ifQ.v0uHnQ6Wabd7CtTYp9BeKrBVnT_2LK141_7eHC_ksgw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p97#a250804p97

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

Source: Mark Zuckerberg lobbied President Trump against digital service taxes, which Trump then publicly criticized; Meta confirms they met privately last week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/zuc…

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.

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.

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’

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg's aim with the Superintelligence Labs is to create a start-up-like unit within Meta that is unencumbered by the company's bureaucracy (Financial Times)

Sources: Meta considers downsizing its AI division, with some executives expected to leave, and is exploring using third-party models for its AI products (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html

Zuckerberg Again Overhauls Meta’s A.I. Efforts
Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Press Coverage of Meta shareholder settlement over Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-investors-zuckerberg-reach-settlement-end-8-…

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.
…

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 ...

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.

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: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-leave-meta-superintelligence-labs-openai/…

Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab
CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.

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 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/

Sources: 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

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…

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…

Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

How Meta Lost Its Way With AI Talent
At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.

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…

Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/meta-says-open-ai…

Meta Says Open AI Hire is Superintelligence Group Chief Scientist
Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company’s new superintelligence AI group.

An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's "masculine energy", Silicon Valley's "cloying conformity" and "combination of machismo and self-pity", and more (Gaby Hinsliff/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics…

Sen. Josh Hawley launches a probe of Meta following a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Zuckerberg to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/meta-ai-bot-child-investigation.html

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report
Sen. Josh Hawley called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to preserve relevant materials, including emails.

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

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)

Court filing: Elon Musk says he talked to Mark Zuckerberg in February about backing a $97.4B OpenAI bid, but neither he nor Meta signed a letter of intent (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/12494c21-e477-49c1-a2d7-683c12c281ea

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

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.

Source: Snap is considering raising outside money to fund Spectacles development or spinning off Spectacles, to compete with deeper-pocketed rivals like Meta (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/struggling-snap-considers-outsi…

Struggling Snap Considers Outside Funding for AR Glasses
For nearly as long as Evan Spiegel has run Snap Inc., his big bet has been on Spectacles, the company’s augmented reality glasses. All together, he has poured $3 billion into the effort—a fraction of what Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Platforms has invested in wearable technology, but a major expense ...

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 ...

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/meta-earnings-meta-turns-the-dial-soci…

Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta
Meta delivered blowout earnings the same quarter that Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on AI; I don’t think it was a coincidence.

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.

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…

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.