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Consumer Tech News (July 7–July 11): Nvidia Hits $4 Trillion, Japan Tariffs Rattle Markets, Hopes Rise For Trump–Xi Summit
Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 12:15pm | 1545Wall Street watched history unfold as Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) became the first company to hit a $4 trillion market cap, capping off a week of market-moving headlines. In a surprising diplomatic turn, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called recent talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
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Mark Zuckerberg Poaches Sam Altman's Talent With Multimillion-Dollar Offers To Build Meta's AI Team
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 3:15pm | 469Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META), under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is on a relentless pursuit for artificial intelligence (AI) specialists, with remuneration packages that outstrip those of professional sports stars and Fortune 500 CEOs. What Happened: As per a ...
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Meta Exec Dismisses OpenAI's Sam Altman's Claims of $100 Million Signing Bonuses: 'Sam Is Just Being Dishonest Here'
Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 10:15am | 460A top-ranking executive at Meta Platforms Inc. has leveled accusations of dishonesty against Sam Altman, the leader of OpenAI. What Happened: The allegations pertain to claims of $100 million signing bonuses offered by Meta to lure leading AI researchers away from OpenAI. Andrew Bosworth,...
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Mark Zuckerberg Suggested AI Avatars Could Be Your Friends, Hinge Founder Justin McLeod Says Meta CEO Is 'Playing With Fire'
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 12:08am | 509Hinge founder Justin McLeod says Silicon Valley's push to offer artificial-intelligence “friends” risks worsening, not curing, the loneliness crisis and likened Mark Zuckerberg's vision of AI companionship to eating junk food. What Happened: “He [Zuckerberg] said we're going to...
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Why Meta's 'Superintelligence' Project Lead Alexandr Wang Says It Is A Strange Time To Be A Scientist
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:07pm | 675Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old Scale AI founder now heading to Meta Platforms’ (NASDAQ:META) new "super-intelligence" lab says artificial-intelligence models already possess insights that science cannot match and that makes it “a strange time to be a scientist, but an exciting time for...
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Elizabeth Warren Slams Mark Zuckerberg Over Reported Stablecoin Ambitions, Citing 'National Security Threat' — Meta Says No Such Plans
Friday, June 13, 2025 - 8:00am | 778Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) raised concerns over Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s potential stablecoin revival plans. What Happened: The Senators voiced their apprehensions to Zuckerberg in a...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Handpicking A 'Superintelligence' Team To Lead Meta's AGI Race After Llama 4 Letdown: Report
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 6:35am | 480Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, unhappy with the company's setbacks in AI innovation, is reportedly handpicking a new team of top researchers and engineers to work on artificial general intelligence. What Happened: Zuckerberg is personally steering efforts to recruit...
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Chief AI Scientist At Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Says 'No Way' Scaling ChatGPT-Like Models Is Going To Lead To Human-Level AI
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 10:50pm | 723Meta Platforms, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says the tech industry won't close the gap to human-level intelligence by scaling today's large language models and piling on more parameters. What Happened: "We are not going to get to human-level AI by just scaling up LLMs. This...
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Meta Platforms Shareholders Say No To Mark Zuckerberg-Led Social Media Titan Putting Bitcoin On The Balance Sheet
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 10:50pm | 702Shareholders of Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) rejected a proposal to consider adding Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) to the company’s balance sheet. What Happened: A proposal for a “Bitcoin Treasury Assessment” garnered only 3.92 million votes in favor, reflecting about 0.1% of the...
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Mark Zuckerberg Pushes Meta Toward Retail Expansion As Internal Memo Reveals Plans To Open Physical Stores: Report
Friday, May 30, 2025 - 7:48am | 591A new internal communications document from Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) shows that the company is about to launch brick-and-mortar locations and hire store staff shortly. What Happened: Meta's internal memo, reviewed by Business Insider, outlines plans for growing its retail footprint....
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Mark Zuckerberg Already Made It To 'Step 1' By Naming His Goat Bitcoin — Now Investor Dials Meta To Ask Him To Add BTC To Company's Reserves
Friday, May 30, 2025 - 1:16am | 784Matt Cole, CEO of Strive Asset Management, publicly called on tech behemoth Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) on Wednesday to buy Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for its balance sheet. What happened: Cole dialed the company from the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, listing the benefits of adding Bitcoin...
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Research On Doomscrolling's Impact Is 'Inconclusive,' But Experts Say The Data Tells A Different Story
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 7:35am | 611Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed that social media is not inherently harmful, arguing that the effects of online platforms depend mainly on how people use them. What Happened: Appearing on the ‘This Past Weekend’ podcast, Zuckerberg pushed back when host Theo Von...
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Mark Zuckerberg Gets 'Really Frustrated' And In A Bad Mood When He Can't Do This One Thing
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 10:57pm | 616Mark Zuckerberg says the secret of his calendar management is leaving it empty, and not packing it tight. "I try to generally keep a bunch of time open," the Meta (NASDAQ:META) chief told Stripe co-founder John Collison, adding that over-scheduling drives him "in a bad mood … I just like explode."...
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Cathie Wood's Monday Moves: Ark Bets On Nvidia-Supplier TSMC, Sells $6.5 Million Of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Shares
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 9:54pm | 644On Monday, Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest made significant trades involving Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (NYSE:TSM) and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META). The TSMC Trade saw Ark Invest making substantial purchases of the Taiwan-based chip giant’s shares. The Ark Innovation ETF (NYSE:...
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Meta Pleads With Judge To Dismiss FTC's Antitrust Case in High-Stakes Trial
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 4:06pm | 486Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) urged a federal judge to dismiss the significant antitrust case filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) during an ongoing trial that could potentially lead to the breakup of the tech behemoth. What Happened: Meta has requested the court to dismiss the FTC...