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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

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