Published on: 2025-06-13 04:20:28
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey, the original founder of Oculus VR who has since become a military contractor, weren’t on the best of terms for many years. After all, Zuck is the one who fired Luckey after he helped establish Meta’s entire VR business. That’s now water under the bridge. There’s major money to be made in military tech, but Zuckerberg and Luckey—two nerds who made billions off their consumer products—are also bound tight by their newfound ultra-masculine, Trump-supporti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 16:02:43
In Brief Meta AI now has one billion monthly active users across its apps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, as first reported by CNBC. The new milestone doubles the 500 million monthly active users Meta AI had back in September 2024. The “focus for this year is deepening the experience and making Meta AI the leading personal AI with an emphasis on personalization, voice conversations and entertainment,” Zuckerberg said. He went on to state tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 20:12:43
Meta's artificial intelligence assistant now has one billion monthly active users across the company's family of apps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday at the company's annual shareholder meeting. The "focus for this year is deepening the experience and making Meta AI the leading personal AI with an emphasis on personalization, voice conversations and entertainment," Zuckerberg said. The artificial intelligence assistant's one billion milestone comes after the company in April released a sta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 17:36:11
You might be surprised to find out that the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and the Chevrolet Corvette are related. Turns out, the Wienermobile is much like its namesake food—built from a variety of ingredients. In the case of Oscar Mayer's hot dogs, the list includes turkey, chicken and pork; for the Wienermobile, it’s an array of automotive components, some of which are shared with world-beating performance cars. Let’s examine the Wienermobile to see exactly how the vehicular sausage is made. It m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 20:03:09
Microsoft’s annual Build conference didn’t go smoothly, thanks to disruptions by protests of the company’s ties to Israel. After one, a flustered Microsoft employee accidentally displayed confidential messages about Walmart’s AI expansion. Former Microsoft software engineers Hossam Nasr and Vaniya Agrawal interrupted a presentation on best security practices for AI as part of planned protests by No Azure for Apartheid, an organization denouncing Microsoft selling its products and services for u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 12:38:17
If you ask the man who has largely shaped how friends and family connect on social media over the past two decades about the future of social media, you may not get a straight answer. At the Federal Trade Commission's monopoly trial, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attempted what seemed like an artful dodge to avoid criticism that his company allegedly bought out rivals Instagram and WhatsApp to lock users into Meta's family of apps so they would never post about their personal lives anywhere else. He
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 10:03:38
MEIZU Known for its diverse smartphone offerings, MEIZU today is steadily growing with its converged AI ecosystem that combines hardware and software, multi-device interconnectivity, and full-scenario coverage. MEIZU smartphones, smart glasses, and smart cockpits are full-featured, rich experiences that are popular in emerging markets across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe. In addition, the company’s portfolio includes more, such as smart glasses, smart rings, smart watches, ta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 16:14:35
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok — specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini — will “have all the service-level agreements Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,” says Microsoft. They’ll also be billed directly by Microsoft, as is the case with the other models hosted in Azure AI Foundry. When Musk anno
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 16:00:00
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft was getting ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI models, and now it’s official. At Microsoft’s Build developer conference today, the company confirmed it’s expanding its Azure AI Foundry models list to include Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini from xAI. “These models will have all the service level agreements (SLAs) Azure
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 16:55:31
Fellow Microsoft workers and Microsoft leadership, By now you may have seen or heard of my disruption at the Microsoft Build keynote this morning. I have been working as a firmware engineer under Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) for the past 4 years. As a Microsoft worker - while I’ve had positive experiences here, working and learning with many incredible people - I can no longer stand by in silence as Microsoft continues to facilitate Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinia
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 16:00:00
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok — specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini — will “have all the service-level agreements Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,” says Microsoft. They’ll also be billed directly by Microsoft, as is the case with the other models hosted in Azure AI Foundry. When Musk anno
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 00:51:45
NurPhoto / Getty Images Would you believe Microsoft has announced a new Linux distribution service for its Azure cloud service? You should. For many years, the most popular operating system on Azure has not been Windows Server, it's been Linux. Last time I checked, in 2024, Azure Linux Platforms Group Program Manager Jack Aboutboul told me that 60% of Azure Marketplace offerings and more than 60% of virtual machine cores use Linux. Those figures mean it's sensible for Microsoft to make it easi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 16:20:22
Years after the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in a bid to halt acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. The trial kicked off last month when CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand, and it’s expected to last several weeks. Facebook’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram is a central part of the FTC’s case against Meta. The government says Zuckerberg bought Instagram to neutralize it as a competitor. When Instagram’s cofounder and former CEO Kevi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 22:54:11
Curtis Joe / Android Authority TL;DR Eden is a new Switch emulator launching tomorrow in pre-alpha. It’s a Yuzu fork with new features and a new UI. The team previously worked on Citron, breaking off after internal disputes. The Nintendo Switch 2 is less than a month away, and despite Nintendo’s best efforts, Switch emulation continues to forge ahead. Citron, Sudachi, and other Yuzu forks have kept the flame burning after Nintendo shut down the original team at Tropic Haze last year. Tomorro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 16:20:48
Meta is facing its biggest existential threat in its history. Years after the Federal Trade Commission first sued the social network in an attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. FTC v. Meta began last month when CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand, and is expected to last for several weeks. The FTC is hoping to prove to US District judge James Boasberg that Meta’s acquisitions of its one-time rivals were anticompeti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 04:00:00
Tech executives have long talked about how AI is going to revolutionize the advertising industry. In particularly, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quite vocal about how exactly he wants his company to lead the transformation. Speaking onstage at Stripe’s annual Sessions conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Zuckerberg laid out his plans to automate the entire ad industry with a black-box, end-to-end AI ad tool. A key component of such a product would entail putting thousands of AI-generate
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 04:00:00
Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar, who left in 2023, has a new data startup called WisdomAI. The company offers AI data analytics that can deliver business insights with structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors. Working with data where and how it is, that’s essentially the holy grail for enterprise business intelligence software and why Coatue led the giant seed round of $23 million. Madrona, GTM Capital, The Anthology Fund, and others also par
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 17:20:13
Speaking at Stripe Sessions 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t miss the opportunity to frame Apple as the foe—and Google as the friend. Stripe CEO and co-founder John Collison asked Zuckerberg about Apple after the latest U.S. court decision that forced Apple to loosen its App Store rules. “Tim’s had a bad week,” Zuckerberg quipped. “I’m not gonna pile on, but I like Sundar.” Points for performative restraint with a wink, but the gap between Apple and Google on app marketplace openness is m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 00:20:48
Meta is facing its biggest existential threat in its history. Years after the Federal Trade Commission first sued the social network in an attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. FTC v. Meta began last month when CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand, and is expected to last for several weeks. The FTC is hoping to prove to US District judge James Boasberg that Meta’s acquisitions of its one-time rivals were anticompeti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 00:04:46
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaking on CNBC's "Squawk Box" outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Microsoft shares popped 7.6% Thursday after the software giant issued strong guidance and robust cloud growth drove a top- and bottom-line beat in the third quarter. Shares notched their best day since November 2022. Azure revenues topped estimates, growing 33% year over year. Microsoft attributed 16 points of that growth to artificial intelligence. Analys
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 11:13:45
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings. In an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel this week, Zuckerberg asserted that more people should be connecting with chatbots on a social level — because, in a striking line of argumentation, they don't have enough real-life friends. When asked if AI chatbots can help fight the loneliness epidemic, the billionaire painted a dystopian vision o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 20:53:49
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaking on CNBC's "Squawk Box" outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Microsoft shares popped 9% Thursday after the software giant issued strong guidance, and robust cloud growth drove a top-and-bottom line beat in the third quarter. Shares are on pace for their best day since March 2020. Azure revenues topped estimates, growing 33% year over year. Microsoft attributed 16 points of that growth to artificial intelligence. Ana
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 00:15:20
Apple’s developer relations are a major point of controversy at the moment following the court ruling related to Epic Games. Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg discussed Meta’s relationship with Apple in an interview that was just published at Stratechery. Here’s what he said. Zuckerberg outlines history of troublesome Apple relationship Ben Thompson of Stratechery was able to interview Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week on a wide range of issues. They met in person Monday at Meta’s first ever
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-01 00:18:22
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. The Meta AI app could soon get a paid tier, similar to the ones offered by rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the plan during a Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday, saying there’s an opportunity to offer a “premium service for people who want to unlock more compute or additional functionality” in Meta AI. A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-01 04:38:52
Mark Zuckerberg says he believes most of the Meta's code will be written by AI agents sometime within the next year-and-a-half. Zuckerberg made the prediction during an hour-long interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. "I would guess sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we'll reach the point where most of the code that's going towards these efforts is written by AI," said Zuckerberg, referring to the company's efforts to build internal AI agents. "And I don't mean like autocomplete... I'm tal
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 14:19:46
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Isuzu has started mass production of an all-electric version of its midsized D-Max pickup truck in Thailand, featuring a dual-motor four-wheel-drive system with 140kW of power that can “match the performance of existing diesel models,” according to the automaker. As reported by Electrek, the new D-Max EV matches the towing capacity of Isuzu’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 20:47:15
Microsoft has announced that it will soon introduce paid subscriptions for Windows Server 2025 hotpatching, a service that enables admins to install security updates without restarting. The company urged admins to try hotpatching free of charge before it becomes generally available in July, when they'll have to pay for a subscription to test it. However, Redmond also warned those currently testing Windows Server 2025 hotpatching in preview to disenroll on or before June 30 so that they're not
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 00:19:46
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Isuzu has started mass production of an all-electric version of its midsized D-Max pickup truck in Thailand, featuring a dual-motor four-wheel-drive system with 140kW of power that can “match the performance of existing diesel models,” according to the automaker. As reported by Electrek, the new D-Max EV matches the towing capacity of Isuzu’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 07:46:40
The subreddit r/changemyview has long been a contentious place for Reddit users to "post an opinion" and "understand other perspectives." It's a forum filled with fiery — but largely civil — debates, covering everything from the role political activism to the dangers of social media echo chambers. Lately, though, not every user posting on the forum has been a real human. As 404 Media reported this week, University of Zurich researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 15:48:48
This post takes a look at the experiences of political activists in East Germany (GDR) who had to deal with Stasi informants and infiltration before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The invasive spying and disorientation tactics used by the East German secret police (Stasi) meant there were significantly fewer possibilities for civil disobedience and direct action than political grassroots activists have today in places such as Western Europe and North America. Nevertheless political activi
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