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Musk tried to enlist Zuckerberg to help finance OpenAI takeover bid

OpenAI said Musk identified Zuckerberg, as one of the people with whom he had communicated about potentially financing a deal to purchase the ChatGPT maker

Mark Zuckerberg reshapes Meta's AI division amid superintelligence push

On Tuesday, Meta announced internally that it is splitting its AI division which is known as Meta Superintelligence Labs into four groups, two people with knowledge of the situation said

After Mira Murati's rejection, her cofounder turns down Zuckerberg's $1.5 bn offer

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg offered Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Andrew Tulloch a $1.5-billion pay package over six years to join Meta's AI team. Tulloch, however, turned down the offer

Meta appoints former OpenAI researcher to lead superintelligence AI group

Meta has been spending aggressively to recruit AI experts to develop new models and keep pace with rivals like OpenAI and Google in the race for AI dominance

Meta investors settle lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica, FTC payout

Terms of the settlement, which were reached one day after the trial started, weren't immediately disclosed. Representatives from Meta declined to comment

Trial begins against Zuckerberg, Meta leaders over Facebook privacy lapses

A USD 8 billion class action investors' lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders current and former began Wednesday, with claims stemming from the 2018 privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. Investors allege in their lawsuit that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump's successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016. Shareholders say Facebook officials repeatedly and continually violated a 2012 consent order with the Federal Trade Commission under which Facebook agreed to stop collecting and sharing personal data on platform users and friends without their consent. Facebook later sold user data to commercial partners in direct violation of the consent order and removed disclosures from privacy settings that were required under consent order, the lawsuit alleges. The fallout led to Facebook agreeing to p

Why did Meta remove 1 crore Facebook accounts? | Mark Zuckerberg

In its biggest clean-up of the year, Meta has removed over 10 million Facebook profiles to combat spam, impersonation, and AI-driven content duplication. Watch to know what it means for creators.

Meta's days of giving free AI may be ending as monetisation plans loom

Unlike AI models from Google and OpenAI, Meta's Llama is described as "open source," meaning its underlying code is freely available online for anyone - including rivals - to use and adapt

Meta acquires voice AI startup PlayAI as it continues to add talent

Meta has made AI the company's top priority this year, investing heavily in infrastructure such as chips and data centers, as well as recruiting top talent to build AI models and features

$100 million job offers: How Mark Zuckerberg is luring the best AI minds

In just the last month, Zuckerberg has poached leading OpenAI scientist Lucas Beyer, who co-created the vision transformer; Ruoming Pang, who led Apple Inc.'s efforts at building AI models

Meta invests $3.5 bn in world's largest eye-wear maker in AI glasses push

Facebook parent Meta acquired just under 3 per cent of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica. Menlo Park, California-based Meta is considering further investment

OpenAI CEO Altman looks to Zuckerberg reunion amid employee poaching spat

OpenAI's Altman hasn't yet spoken to Zuckerberg since the Meta's chief executive officer poached some of OpenAI's top engineers, but he's anticipating a meeting this week

Apple's top AI models executive leaves to join Meta's AI expansion drive

Apple's overall AI strategy is now run primarily by Craig Federighi, Apple's head of software engineering, and Mike Rockwell, who helped create Apple Vision Pro headset, now leads engineering for Siri

Meta AI talent raid: OpenAI promises to reward employees after 8 poached

'It feels like someone's broken into our home', OpenAI mentions after Meta intensifying effort to recruit AI talent poaching from it

Meta in talks to acquire AI voice startup PlayAI for talent push

The deal is not yet finalized and could still change, people familiar with the matter said. Financial terms under discussion could not be learned

Meta recruits leading OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal for AI reasoning lab

Meta has hired top OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to boost its AI superintelligence team, aiming to build competitive AI reasoning models as it intensifies efforts in the advanced AI race

Meta recruits 3 OpenAI researchers amid Sam Altman's poaching claims

Meta has hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai from OpenAI to work on its superintelligence initiatives

Zuckerberg offers $100 mn to lure top AI talent for Meta's new dream lab

Mark Zuckerberg is personally courting AI leaders with record pay packages and unlimited resources to build Meta's 'Superintelligence' lab and regain lost ground in generative AI

Meta offering $100 million bonuses to poach OpenAI talent, says Sam Altman

Sam Altman said he respects Meta but does not see it as strong on innovation, adding that innovation, not just pay, is what retains talent at OpenAI

Meet Alexandr Wang, Meta $15 billion bet to catch up in global AI race

Meta is bringing on Scale AI's CEO Alexandr Wang in a deal worth up to $15 billion to lead a new superintelligence lab and reboot its AI ambitions with cutting-edge data expertise