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Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first

Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notified early in their own time zones on the same day. The cuts implement the 10%-workforce-reduction […]

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Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms

After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal that would give rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude and others, free […]

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Meta’s $200 billion Hyperion data centre in Louisiana is the most expensive private infrastructure project in American history

Meta is building the most expensive single piece of private infrastructure in American history. Hyperion, the company’s AI data centre campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, now carries a projected cost of more than $200 billion, a figure that has grown steadily since the project was first announced at $10 billion in December 2024. The campus […]

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Meta moves 7,000 people into AI roles the same week it cuts 10%

Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and “reassigning”. Meta Platforms is reassigning 7,000 workers to new artificial-intelligence-focused jobs as part of a broad corporate restructuring, […]

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Meta begins cutting 8,000 jobs this week as record profits fund a $145 billion AI infrastructure bet

Meta will begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs on 20 May, the largest single round of layoffs the company has undertaken since its 2023 restructuring, in a move that lays bare the scale of Mark Zuckerberg’s bet that artificial intelligence infrastructure is worth more than the people it replaces. The company is also cancelling 6,000 open […]

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Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, hours before Lennon was shot and killed, […]

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Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students

Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit of its kind, alleging that social media addiction has cost public schools massive amounts of money, according to Bloomberg. The suit, filed by the Breathitt County School District in Kentucky, claims that social media has disrupted learning and created a mental health crisis, straining budgets. The […]

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Meta brings virtual writing to everyone with Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

Meta is rolling out new features to its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, including bringing the ability to write messages just with hand gestures to all users. You’ll be able to use the feature in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and with “native Android and iOS messaging,” Meta says. The feature, which relies on the Meta Ray-Ban […]

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Seven million cameras on seven million faces: the smart glasses privacy crisis no one can stop

  The woman was shopping in London when she noticed something odd about the man approaching her. He wore sunglasses indoors, asked her name, told her she was gorgeous. What she did not notice was the almost invisible camera embedded in the frames of his Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, quietly recording every second of the […]

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How to turn of Instagram’s new Instants feature and retract photos you accidentally shared

While the Meta-owned social network billed Instants as a new format to share real-life moments as they’re happening, many users are looking for a way  to turn off the feature, especially those who have ended up accidentally sending images to others not fully understanding how the feature works. 

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