Anyone miserable in their jobs will take some solace from Careless People, a blistering new memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams, former global public policy director at Facebook (since rebranded as Meta). This tale of her years at the company, from her idealistic pitch for an international role in 2011 to her …
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Life was going great before we watched this video of Mark Zuckerberg — and since we had to see it, you do too. Over the weekend, Zuckerberg decided to surprise his wife Priscilla Chan at her 40th birthday party by doing a cosplay as Benson Boone at the Grammys. (Yes, …
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At the dawn of a second Donald Trump era, Mark Zuckerberg has been busy sucking up to a president who last year threatened him with life in prison. The Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder reportedly promised the administration he won’t stand in the way of Trump’s immigration crackdowns, which the …
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term on Monday before the world’s richest people. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg were among those seated closest to Trump as he demonized the most vulnerable members of our society, rewrote the history of his criminal prosecutions, and pledged …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed several elements of the presidential transition process, including a new portrait of Donald Trump, figures like Mark Zuckerberg cozying up to the president-elect, and some of President Joe Biden’s final actions while in office. “It’s the dawn of anew era,” co-anchor Colin Jost began.“Donald …
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The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram. As first revealed in a motion …
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Silicon Valley billionaires are scrambling to get into President-elect Donald Trump’s good graces ahead of his inauguration later this month, and no one has embarked on a more blatant boot-licking campaign than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta has already donated $1 million dollars to Trump’s inaugural fund, and Zuckerberg flew …
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Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, whose platforms are already flooded with AI-generated content, recently floated an idea to make the problem even worse: letting users create bot characters in their AI Studio that would then become functional “users” of these sites themselves, appearing to have their own accounts that engage …
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Since burning through tens of billions of dollars on its flop “metaverse” concept and laying off thousands in the aftermath of that gamble, tech giant Meta has strained to reinvent itself as a company poised to capitalize on the overhyped AI revolution. Last year, for example, founder and CEO Mark …
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Shortly before the election, Donald Trump wrote in his recently released coffee table book that Mark Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he ever crossed him again. Now, with the president-elect weeks away from inauguration, the Meta billionaire is attempting to ingratiate himself to Trump, …
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