Meta rolling out AI subscriptions
Meta Platforms is selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot for the first time, a key step toward building a business that would help offset hundreds of billions of dollars in artificial intelligence investments by the company.
The new...
Meta Platforms shares plummet with more AI spending on the cards
Meta Platforms shares plunged the most in six months after the company raised its spending outlook for the year.
The move reignited fears that the historic levels of investment that chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg is...
Musk tried to enlist Zuckerberg for OpenAI buyout
Elon Musk tried to enlist Mark Zuckerberg for his unsolicited bid to buy OpenAI this year, the startup said in a court filing.
OpenAI said Musk identified Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., as one of the people with...
Top 10 richest tech billionaires roundup for December 2024
South African-born Elon Musk has increased the gap between himself and the rest of the world's richest people in 2024.
The past year has been great for most of the world's biggest tech companies, thanks largely to continued investor...
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Meta's plan to kill smartphones
Meta supremo Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Orion smart glasses, a new augmented reality (AR) prototype, at the annual Meta Connect developer conference.
Ten years in the making, and still not expected on high streets until 2027, these will be a new way to meld the...
Meta opens up VR headset software to third parties — including Lenovo and Microsoft
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is “opening up” its Meta Quest headset operating system to other hardware makers, part of an effort to boost its standing in the nascent augmented reality and virtual reality...
Zuck insists Musk fight won't happen
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., said it’s “time to move on” from speculation that there will be a cage fight match between him and Elon Musk.
“If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to...
Zuck throws cold water on Musk's fight claims
Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc., threw cold water on claims by Elon Musk that the two billionaires are working out plans for a cage match in Rome.
“I love this sport and I’ve been ready to fight since the day Elon...
Zuckerberg promises Threads will get web version "in the next few weeks"
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will roll out a web version of Threads and add a proper search function to the platform.
He said the new features are "coming in the next few weeks" and...
Elon says cage fight with Zuckerberg will be live-streamed on Twitter/X
Elon Musk said a potential fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be streamed on the rebranded social network known as X.
“Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote Sunday in a post on his platform, formerly known...
Threads hits 100 million users in four days
Meta Platforms' Twitter rival Threads has amassed 100 million sign-ups in less than a week, Engadget reports.
The publication has kept tabs on Quiver Quantitative's Threads data tracking, which showed the Instagram sibling hitting the milestone of...
Threads reaches 30 million users in 16 hours
More than 30 million users signed up for Meta Platforms Inc.’s new app Threads, designed as a direct rival to Twitter and the most serious threat yet to Elon Musk’s struggling social-media site.
On Threads, people can post text and links and reply...
Zuck's first tweet since 2012 takes a jab at Elon
Mark Zuckerberg posted his first tweet in more than a decade, a playful jab at Elon Musk on the day the Meta Platforms Inc. founder rolled out a much-anticipated Twitter substitute.
Meta’s Instagram officially unveiled Threads Wednesday...
Meta launches "Game Pass" for VR games
Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new subscription service for its virtual reality headsets.
Meta Quest+ will cost $7.99 (R148) per month [or $59.99 (R1,114) per year] for access to two gaming titles each month, chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg...
All Meta Platforms products will get generative AI — Zuckerberg
All Meta Platforms products will feature some form of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the future, according to the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
According to an Axios report, Zuckerberg briefed employees on how Meta...
Zuckerberg and former Facebook directors must face lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal
A judge ruled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and former directors of the social-media company must face claims they turned a blind eye to rampant privacy violations, including allowing a firm hired by...
Meta Platforms cutting jobs at Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram
Meta Platforms Inc. is set to commence companywide layoffs on Wednesday as it restructures teams and works toward founder Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of greater efficiency.
The Facebook parent company notified managers to prepare to...
Meta Platforms shedding 10,000 jobs — and closing 5,000 open positions
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to lay off around 10,000 employees and close about 5,000 additional open roles in its second major round of job cuts in the past six months.
The Facebook parent company has been marketing 2023 as a...