Meta is warning users that it has suspended thousands of Facebook Groups due to a technical error. The company says its working to fix the issue but has not shared what’s causing the widespread suspensions Thousands of harmless Facebook groups have been slapped with bans(Image: Ivan Pantic via Getty Images) Meta is facing global outrage … Read more
Meta approached artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI about a potential takeover bid before ultimately investing $14.3 billion into Scale AI, CNBC confirmed on Friday. The two companies did not finalize a deal, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because of the confidential nature of the negotiations. One … Read more
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment in the artificial intelligence startup, he was apparently just getting started. Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever’s startup Safe Superintelligence, and former GitHub CEO Nat … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco on June 2, 2025. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Meta Platforms tried to poach OpenAI employees by offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual compensation packages, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said. While Meta … Read more
It took 11 years since Facebook acquired it for $19 billion, but Meta is finally bringing ads to WhatsApp, marking a major change for an app whose founders shunned advertising. Meta announced Monday that businesses will now be able to run so-called status ads on WhatsApp that prompt users to interact with the advertisers via … Read more
Alexandr Wang, CEO of ScaleAI speaks on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang told employees in a memo on Thursday that he’s leaving for Meta, confirming reports from earlier in the week about his departure and a large … Read more
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images Meta is suing a company that ran ads on its services to promote an app that lets people create nonconsensual, sexualized images of others using AI technology, the social media company … Read more
Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, arrives for a meeting with international investors in IA at the Elysee Palace as part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 10, 2025. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Meta is forming a new artificial intelligence research lab and bringing on Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO … Read more