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Interview With Mark Zuckerberg Crashes and Burns as They Can't Get His Audio Working

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-29 08:33:20

Tech-focused business publication The Information drummed up plenty of excitement around a major guest gracing the first episode of its new YouTube show (which has the eyebrow-raising name TITV.) During today's kickoff installment, the show locked down none other than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who sat down with The Information founder and journalist Jessica Lessin for a live interview. But it didn't take long for the Amazon-sponsored chat to grind to a halt. The tech mogul and Lessin's audio w

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TikTok parent ByteDance reportedly developing its own XR glasses

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 09:02:11

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR ByteDance is reportedly working on mixed reality goggles. Sources compare the size and shape of the goggles to Bigscreen’s Beyond headset. It will come tethered to a puck, similar to Meta’s XR glasses. Outside of AI, the hottest thing in tech these days seems to be smart glasses. We’ve known for a few months now that Meta is working on XR glasses, internally codenamed Phoenix (previously codenamed Puffin). Not to be confused with Orion, which is the

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Meta removes 10 million Facebook profiles in effort to combat spam

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2025-07-29 13:40:08

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump's second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Meta on Monday said it's removed about 10 million profiles for impersonating large content producers through the first half of 2025 as part of an effort by the company to combat "spammy content." The crackdown is part of Meta's broader effort to make the Facebook Feed more relevant and authentic by taking action against and

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Meta Is Building Massive Gigawatt Data Centers as It Pours Billions Into AI

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-07-29 17:40:19

Meta’s AI spending spree continues. After reportedly offering tens (or in some cases, hundreds) of millions of dollars to lure away top researchers from competing artificial intelligence operations, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via Threads that the company plans to build several multi-gigawatt superclusters to ramp up its compute power. Zuckerberg said the first of the superclusters, called Prometheus, will come online sometime in 2026, with “multiple more titan clusters” to follow. According

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-07-29 21:32:42

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest "hundreds of billions of dollars" into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, and that Meta plans to bring its first supercluster online next year. A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that's designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads. "Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook pos

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-29 21:16:52

Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday post on Threads. The announcement marks Meta’s latest move to get ahead of OpenAI and Google in the AI race. After previously poaching top talent to run Meta Superintelligence Lab, including former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross, Meta now seems to be t

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How Google Killed OpenAI’s $3 Billion Deal Without an Acquisition

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-07-30 16:52:26

Google just dealt OpenAI a major blow by scuttling a potential $3 billion deal, and in doing so, solidified a rising trend in Silicon Valley’s AI arms race: the “non-acquisition acquisition.” Google announced on July 11 that it poached key talent from the rapidly rising AI startup Windsurf, which until then had a reported $3 billion acquisition deal with OpenAI that has now collapsed. Instead, Google is paying $2.4 billion to hire away top Windsurf employees, including the company’s CEO, and ta

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Meta acquires voice startup Play AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-07-30 18:32:25

In Brief Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the “entire PlayAI team” will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.) Meta’s memo reportedly said that PlayAI’s “work in creating natural voices, along with a platform for easy voice creation, is a great match for our wor

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Meta reportedly closes deal to buy AI voice replicator PlayAI

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-30 14:00:37

Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase Play AI, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. The news organization says the "entire PlayAI team" is joining Meta next week, based on the internal memo it has seen. After joining the company, the team will be working under Johan Schalkwyk, who used to oversee speech AI research for Google and who was also a recent hire from another voice AI startup. PlayAI's tool can clone a user's voice

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Woman Says Zuckerberg's AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-31 08:05:38

"I'm afraid to drink the water." Tainted Water A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water. As the BBC reports, the resident, Beverly Morris, believes the construction of the tech giant's data center disrupted her private water well, causing a buildup of sediment. "I'm afraid to drink the water, but I still cook with it, and brush my teeth with it," Morris told the broadcaster. "Am I worried about

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Review: Stellar cast makes Superman shine bright

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-31 13:27:51

I'll be frank: I had mixed feelings, based solely on the trailers, about James Gunn's Superman reboot. Sure, the casting seemed great, Gunn has a winning track record on superhero fare, and Krypto the dog stole the show every time he appeared. The trailers struck a nice balance between action, humor, and heart. Yet the film also seemed overpacked with super-character cameos, and it was hard to get any sense of the actual plot. I've now seen the film, and those impressions were largely correct.

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Meta's new Oakley smart glasses beat its Ray-Bans - and you can preorder them starting today

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-31 21:22:20

Mark Zuckerberg Several months ago, reports emerged that Meta was looking to expand beyond its current smart glasses lineup into sportier versions. Now the glasses are officially here -- and the preorder starts today. In June, Meta launched limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model glasses. Staying true to the brand, the Meta version of the glasses keeps the form factor Oakley is known for, with a more flexible and rugged design that still allows athletes to take advantage of the smart glasses' c

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Meta’s Obsession With AI Will Make Smart Glasses Finally Click

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-07-31 21:56:30

Meta made some pretty major moves in AI this week, and some of them were supremely expensive. According to Bloomberg, Meta spent a whopping $200 million trying to poach just one person from Apple (Ruoming Pang, the former lead in charge of developing the large language models behind Apple Intelligence), and that’s just one person it scooped up in its flurry of AI talent acquisitions—there are several others from OpenAI that also jumped ship just this week. It’s to be expected in one way. AI is

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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

wired.com Dhruv Mehrotra 2025-07-31 21:23:55

The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as “full raw” surveillance footage from a camera positioned nearby Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody. But instead of putting those suspicions to rest, it may fuel them further. Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics e

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Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-08-03 04:32:32

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Month after month, message after message, the AI engineer was hearing from Meta recruiters. The recruiters were pestering him to leave his employer and switch over to support the company’s AI efforts, and they were offering a sizable salary package to do so. But he wasn’t so sure. The engineer, who works for a startup that was

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As X loses its CEO, daily usage is down and competition is growing

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-03 05:16:54

With the departure of X CEO Linda Yaccarino, which was announced Wednesday, the company that defined text-first social networking faces renewed competition. Year-over-year, the Elon Musk-owned social network has seen its daily active user base decline by roughly 10% as of the second quarter of 2025, according to new data provided by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. While X’s user base is still 65% larger than Meta’s Threads and 10 times larger than its next-biggest rival, Bluesky, X’s lastin

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German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 05:06:05

A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to large fines down the road over data privacy violations relating to pixels and similar tools. The Regional Court of Leipzig in Germany ruled Friday that Meta tracking pixels and software development kits embedded in countless websites and apps collect users’ data without their consent and viola

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Meta offered Apple’s head of foundation models more than $200M to jump ship

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-04 09:14:17

Earlier this week, Ruoming Pang, the executive who until recently led Apple’s AI models team, left the company to join Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Superintelligence Labs, or MSL. Now, as reported by Bloomberg, we know just what it took to lure him away. An offer Pang couldn’t refuse (and that Apple couldn’t match) According to the report, Meta offered Pang one of the largest packages seen (yet) in the AI brain-poaching wars, with the promise of more than $200 million spread out over multiple years.

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Batman Fans Get Ready, the Meta Quest 3S Bundle Just Hit Its Lowest Price Ever on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-05 09:15:02

The Meta Quest 3S is the best-selling VR headset available, thanks to its excellent performance, affordability and true wireless freedom. With no wires, no external sensors, and no need for a gaming PC, the Quest 3S is standalone. That’s why it’s the best-selling VR headset by far, and attracts newcomers and experienced gamers who want an immersive experience. For Prime Day, Amazon is including two special bundles for the Meta Quest 3S, but the most desirable is the one that includes the highly

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The New ‘Twisted Metal’ Trailer Is Full of Ludicrous Action and Massive Explosions

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-05 13:45:22

“Cowabunga, motherf*ckers.” Twisted Metal is back on July 31 and its latest trailer is everything fans want from the show and so much more. Season two picks up with the epic car vs. car tournament that made the video games so popular finally getting underway. Not only will John (Anthony Mackie) and Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) be involved, but a whole slew of unforgettable and terrifying Twisted Metal characters too. You’ll see them roll called in the new trailer, which features ludicrous action,

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Zoom’s new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-07 09:07:07

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Zoom has rolled out a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets. With the app, you can join or host meetings in virtual reality while appearing as your Meta Avatar. Zoom launched an app for the Quest in 2023, but it was only available through Meta’s Horizon Workspaces app, and users could also only host a meeting if they had a Zoom subscription. Zoom’

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The Meta Quest 3S is down to its lowest price ever for Prime Day

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-08-07 21:30:00

Prime Day is in full swing, and we’ve already found close to 200 amazing deals. The Meta Quest 3S with 128GB of storage is one of them, thanks to a deal that knocks $50 off its usual $299 price. You can grab the latest VR headset for $249 ($50 off), its all-time low price, at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart during Prime Day. The mixed reality headset was released in January of 2025, and Verge news editor Jay Peters called it “a great first VR headset” in his review. The 256GB model that costs $32

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Meta Quest 3S Now Cheaper Than AirPods, Amazon Drops VR Headset Price to New All Time Low for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-08 09:15:30

In virtual reality, the Meta Quest 3S is the most affordable and immersive headset available today. Among its competitors, the original Meta Quest 3 costs nearly twice as much (and is not offering a fundamentally different experience), PlayStation VR2 requires a PS5 to use and Apple Vision Pro is twenty times more expensive. The Meta Quest 3S has been the top seller and it’s easy to see why: it’s fully wireless, fully standalone, and delivers a high-end VR experience without any extra hardware.

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Meta reportedly recruits Apple’s head of AI models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-09 01:39:02

In Brief Apple’s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This marks the latest high-ranking AI executive Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has scooped up to lead his new AI superintelligence unit. Pang previously ran Apple’s in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features, according to the report. Apple’s AI models haven’t exactly been a huge success — they’re far less cap

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Meta just hired Apple’s head of foundation models

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-09 05:19:28

Apple’s top executive overseeing its in-house AI models is leaving the company, and heading to Meta. As reported by Bloomberg, Ruoming Pang is bound to Menlo Park, and joining Mark Zuckerberg’s all-star Meta Superintelligence Labs group, announced last week. Apple’s AI setbacks just keep on coming Pang joined Apple from Google in 2021, and had been managing the roughly 100-person team behind the models that power Apple Intelligence features like Genmoji, Priority Notifications, and on-device t

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How Meta's new AI chatbot could strike up a conversation with you

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-09 21:41:05

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Despite a major usage and monetization gap, Meta, like many AI companies, is going all in on AI chatbots -- even giving them the ability to strike up a conversation with you, unprompted. According to a report from Business Insider published last week, leaked documents indicate the company is now building AI chatbots that proactively initiate conversations with users. The new feature is intended to boost user engagement and retention at a time when many leading t

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Zuckerberg Was Wrong About the Metaverse. Can We Really Trust Him With Superintelligent AI?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-12 17:16:01

Mark Zuckerberg once sold us the metaverse. Now he wants us to believe he’s going to lead us into the age of superintelligence. Should we fall for it again? Elon Musk once called him “Zuck the Fourteenth,” a jab comparing Meta’s CEO to France’s King Louis XIV—a monarch infamous for his ego, extravagance, and disregard for limits. It’s a fitting label, especially as Zuckerberg floods the headlines, positioning himself as Silicon Valley’s new AI king. But let’s rewind. Just a few years ago, Zuc

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OpenAI Hits the Panic Button

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-13 06:59:46

This week, the world’s most important artificial intelligence company was closed. OpenAI gave its entire staff a week off to “recharge,” a seemingly generous perk for a workforce relentlessly pushing toward building a world-changing technology. But this was not a wellness initiative. It was a strategic retreat in the middle of a brutal, high-stakes war for talent that is now threatening to shatter the company’s carefully crafted identity. The enemy is Meta Platforms, the social media empire th

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A Leading Indicator Has Emerged Suggesting That the AI Industry Is Cooked

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-14 07:38:19

In the world of cultural commentary, there are plenty of benchmarks used to determine when a trend is on its deathbed. From the classic shark-jumping episode of "Happy Days" to the adoption of Facebook by grandparents the world around, those with their ears to the ground can spot when a craze is on its way out. In that vein, the news that Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build supercharged AI sure strikes us as bad news for that industry. Let'

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Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-14 09:21:09

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which "personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone" forms "the beginning of a new era for humanity." The newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs—freshly staffed with multiple high-level acquisitions from OpenAI and other AI companies—will spearhead the development of "our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so," Zuckerberg wrote. Reading that memo, I couldn'

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