The Breathitt County settlement closes the trial that had been set for June 12 in Oakland. Roughly 1,200 similar school-district suits sit behind it. Meta has settled the first US school-district lawsuit set for trial seeking to make social media compa…
After back-to-back losses in trials grappling with its impact on teens’ mental health, Meta just settled what was supposed to be its next legal battle with Kentucky’s Breathitt County School District. Google’s YouTube, Snap, and TikTok all recently settled similar claims brought by the school district, which was seeking payment from the companies to cover […]
Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they’ve been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of the company’s “continued effort to run the company more efficiently […]
Beijing has ordered the Singapore-via-China agentic AI startup to reverse Meta’s $2bn-plus December acquisition. Manus’s response, on Bloomberg’s reporting, is to raise the capital required to buy itself back out. Manus AI, the Singapore-headquartered …
Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notif…
After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission pro…
Meta is building the most expensive single piece of private infrastructure in American history. Hyperion, the company’s AI data centre campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, now carries a projected cost of more than $200 billion, a figure that has grown…
Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and “reassigning”…
Meta will begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs on 20 May, the largest single round of layoffs the company has undertaken since its 2023 restructuring, in a move that lays bare the scale of Mark Zuckerberg’s bet that artificial intelligence infrastruc…
Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew f…