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Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday (Jul 14) that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of US dollars on computing power to build superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit…
Meta Platforms has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team – including a more than US$200 million package for a former Apple distinguished…
Meta Platforms bought a minority stake in the world’s largest eyewear maker EssilorLuxottica, a deal that increases the US tech giant’s financial commitment to the fast-growing smart…
OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has…
In a big push that underscores the fierce competition for the best AI talent, Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta has roped in, Daniel Gross, a highly regarded figure in Silicon Valley, to Meta's…
As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent-poaching spree. In a full-throated response sent to OpenAI researchers Monday evening and obtained by…
Meta Platforms chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced a major restructuring of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) group, including a commitment to developing AI…
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Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta staff today to introduce them to the new superintelligence team. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the recently hired employees, many…
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are spending billions of dollars for top talent to make up ground in the generative artificial intelligence race, sparking doubt about the wisdom of the spree.…
Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday, promising to go head-to-head with the social giant in the war for top research talent. This…
Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu, and Hongyu Ren have joined Meta’s superintelligence team.…
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Catherine Szpindor, informed congressional staffers this week that WhatsApp is now banned from government phones. The…
Meta Platforms is seeking to raise US$29 billion from private capital firms to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in the US, the Financial Times reported on Friday (Jun 27).…
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a claim brought by 13 authors, including Sarah Silverman and Junot Díaz, that Meta violated their copyrights by training its AI model on their books.…
Advocates for the idea that AI training is transformative still see Chhabria’s ruling as a win. “Judge Chhabria ruled today, bottom line, that training generative AI models on copyrighted…
In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were split into three groups and asked to write SAT-style…
Microsoft’s Xbox has partnered with Meta to launch a new limited edition version of the Meta Quest 3S VR headset. Per a Tuesday Xbox Wire blog post attributed to Xbox’s Lori Wright,…
The company is planning to introduce higher-end glasses with a display to view notifications and the camera view finder later this year, Bloomberg News has reported. In 2027, it aims to…
Meta Platforms held discussions with artificial intelligence (AI) search startup Perplexity AI about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale…
Michael Calore: Yeah. Katie Drummond: We need to do more reporting on this. I think that the compensation of people in Silicon Valley is fascinating. Lauren Goode: Well, if anyone would…
When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, I…
META Platforms has finalised an investment in Scale AI that values the startup at over US$29 billion, Scale AI said on Thursday. Two sources familiar with the matter said that Meta’s…
