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Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company

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By:Eli Tan
10 December 2025 at 10:16
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg.

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Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom

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By:David Streitfeld
9 December 2025 at 11:31
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.

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Ben Horowitz, a major A.I. venture capitalist, in 2019. “The clearest sign that we are not actually in a bubble is the fact that everyone is talking about a bubble,” he said.

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

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By:Mike Isaac
4 December 2025 at 15:37
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

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Meta’s virtual reality headset last year. The company’s augmented reality glasses have become a surprise hit.

The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries?

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By:Cade Metz
20 November 2025 at 20:34
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.

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OpenAI’s Stargate data center complex in Abilene, Texas.

Yann LeCun, a Pioneering A.I. Scientist, Leaves Meta

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By:Eli Tan
19 November 2025 at 18:35
Dr. LeCun’s departure follows a shake-up in Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts, as Mark Zuckerberg pushes his company to keep up in the tech race.

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Despite Meta’s efforts to reach A.I. “superintelligence,” Yann LeCun has said that large language models will never be smart enough to be considered superintelligent.

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research

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By:Cade Metz and Eli Tan
19 November 2025 at 00:00
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

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New research shows just how important Chinese engineering talent still is to Silicon Valley companies.

How TikTok Helped Meta Land an Antitrust Victory

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By:David McCabe and Steve Lohr
18 November 2025 at 19:53
Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.

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The Washington headquarters of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Meta five years ago.

Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping

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By:Eli Tan · Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith
18 November 2025 at 17:56
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, in September. On Tuesday, a federal judge found Meta had not violated antitrust law by buying Instagram and WhatsApp when they were tiny start-ups.

Meta Did Not Violate the Law When It Bought Instagram and WhatsApp, a Judge Rules

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By:Cecilia Kang
18 November 2025 at 15:39
Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.

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Meta has defended itself by saying that it faces plenty of competition from rivals, including TikTok and YouTube, and that it benefited the nascent apps with bountiful resources.

Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?

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By:Ken Bensinger
12 November 2025 at 05:01
New court cases seek to define content created by artificial intelligence as defamatory — a novel concept that has captivated some legal experts.

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Wolf River Electric sued Google when A.I.-generated search results fabricated a lawsuit against the company. Its executives include, from left, Luka Bozek, Vladimir Marchenko and Justin Nielsen.

Facebook Dating Has Become a Surprise Hit for the Social Network

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By:Eli Tan
3 November 2025 at 10:32
Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself.

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Facebook Dating is used by a slice of the app’s 3 billion users.

A.I. Spending Is Accelerating Among Tech’s Biggest Companies

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By:Karen Weise
31 October 2025 at 05:02
Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.

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Google is among several big technology companies increasing their spending on data centers.

Meta Raises Its Spending Forecast on A.I. to Above $70 Billion

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By:Eli Tan
29 October 2025 at 18:19
The Silicon Valley company projected more spending this year and said it would continue in 2026 as it hires A.I. researchers and builds data centers to power the technology.

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Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, at an event in September showcasing new products. Meta’s core business of online advertising has provided the fuel for its spending on artificial intelligence.

Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy

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By:Mike Isaac and Eli Tan
23 October 2025 at 19:24
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.

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Meta has been under regulatory scrutiny for its handling of user data.

Meta Cuts 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs

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By:Mike Isaac and Eli Tan
22 October 2025 at 13:59
The layoffs do not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The cuts were focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at the company campus in Menlo Park, Calif., last month. Meta has hired aggressively to build A.I. in recent years.

AI Data Centers Create Fury From Mexico to Ireland

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By:Paul Mozur · Adam Satariano and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
20 October 2025 at 15:00
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

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When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks.

Instagram Unveils Teen Safety Features for A.I. Chatbots

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By:Eli Tan
17 October 2025 at 05:45
Instagram is introducing parental controls and limits to conversations on topics like self-harm as concerns grow over how A.I. chatbots affect mental health.

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Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

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By:Eli Tan
15 October 2025 at 09:39
The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.

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Community members at a rally in Chicago on Tuesday.
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