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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

Meta hires AI talent from Google, Sesame to build superintelligence team

Meta and Zuckerberg are offering compensation packages worth tens of millions of dollars over several years, including equity, according to people familiar with the matter

Meta India's public policy head Shivnath Thukral to step down on June 30

Meta's Shivnath Thukral exits after 7.5 years as India public policy head, as leadership transitions continue under Sandhya Devanathan's expanded SEA role

Meta launches AI lab to pursue superintelligence with Scale AI founder

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

Meta eyes $10 billion investment in data labeling AI startup Scale AI

Meta Platforms is reportedly negotiating a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, a leading data labeling firm, potentially marking its largest external AI funding to date

Not content with boardroom battles, tech guys are fighting literally

Despite unfathomable wealth and rising political influence in Washington, tech elites have developed a new obsession

Meta launches AI app; Zuckerberg chats with Nadella at developer conference

Working to differentiate itself in the crowded field of artificial intelligence, Meta Platforms has launched a standalone AI app with a social media component to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. The Meta AI app, built with the company's Llama 4 AI system. It includes a discover feed that lets users see how others are interacting with AI. It also has a voice mode for interacting with the AI. It's smart for Meta to differentiate its ChatGPT competitor by drawing from the company's social media roots. The app's Discover feed is like a version of the OG Facebook Feed but only focused on AI use cases," said Forrester research director Mike Proulx. By letting users link their Facebook and Instagram accounts, the Meta AI app gets a leg up on instantly personalising its user experience with social media context. Meta has taken a different approach to AI than many of its rivals, releasing it for free as an open-source product. The company says more than a billion people use its AI products

Meta, Oracle bosses sold billions in stocks before Trump's tariff crash

Mark Zuckerberg, Jamie Dimon, Safra Catz among top CEOs who sold billions in shares weeks before Trump's tariff move triggered a historic $6.6 trillion stock market wipeout

'Facebook is no longer the culture', says Zuckerberg on fading relevance

In internal emails revealed in court, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook's cultural relevance is slipping, calling its friend-based model outdated and less engaging

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wraps up testimony in FTC antitrust trial case

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasised in federal court on Wednesday that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because he saw value in the companies not to take out competitors, as the Federal Trade Commission alleges in a historic antitrust trial. Zuckerberg took the stand for the third day in the trial, wrapping up his testimony as the first witness Wednesday afternoon. He took questions from Meta attorney Mark Hansen, who has argued that his client hardly has a monopoly in social media, as the FTC claims, and still faces stiff global competition. Hansen focused some of his questioning on emails sent by Zuckerberg and his associates that the FTC cited in earlier testimony to illustrate the Facebook founder's alarm over the growth of Instagram and his sense that he needed to neutralise its threat. Zuckerberg said he's very focused on inventing new things, and understanding what other people are creating is a big part of the process. At any given point in his company's history, he said, .

Mark Zuckerberg mulled Instagram spin-off in 2018 amid antitrust concerns

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second day of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolised the social media market. In the 2018 email, Zuckerberg wrote that he was beginning to wonder if spinning Instagram out would be the only way to accomplish important goals, as big-tech companies grow. He also noted there is a non-trivial chance Meta could be forced to spin out Instagram and perhaps WhatsApp in five to 10 years anyway. He wrote that while most companies resist breakups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they've been split up. Asked Tuesday by attorney Daniel Matheson, who is leading the antitrust case for the Federal Trade Commission, which incidence in corporate history he had in mind, Zuckerberg responded: I'm not sure what I had in mind then. Zuckerberg, who was the first witness, testif

Meta vs FTC: Zuckerberg defends acquisitions in high-stakes monopoly trial

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies in antitrust trial, defending Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions amid FTC claims of stifling competition; a potential breakup looms