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Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit

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The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called “Ask” and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether they could build 50 new apps. Meta has released a new standalone app called Forum, without a launch event, […]

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Meta settles bellwether Kentucky case, ending first school-district trial over youth mental health

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The Breathitt County settlement closes the trial that had been set for June 12 in Oakland. Roughly 1,200 similar school-district suits sit behind it. Meta has settled the first US school-district lawsuit set for trial seeking to make social media companies pay for the cost of addressing a youth mental health crisis its critics say […]

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One of Meta’s big legal reckonings just ended in a settlement

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After back-to-back losses in trials grappling with its impact on teens’ mental health, Meta just settled what was supposed to be its next legal battle with Kentucky’s Breathitt County School District. Google’s YouTube, Snap, and TikTok all recently settled similar claims brought by the school district, which was seeking payment from the companies to cover […]

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Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments

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Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they’ve been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of the company’s “continued effort to run the company more efficiently […]

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Manus eyes $1bn raise to buy itself out of Meta acquisition after Chinese block

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Beijing has ordered the Singapore-via-China agentic AI startup to reverse Meta’s $2bn-plus December acquisition. Manus’s response, on Bloomberg’s reporting, is to raise the capital required to buy itself back out. Manus AI, the Singapore-headquartered agentic-AI start-up at the centre of the Chinese regulatory block on Meta’s $2bn-plus December acquisition, is weighing a fresh capital raise […]

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

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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

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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

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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%

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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

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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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