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Bidding Wars for AI's Top Talent Would Make an NBA Star Blush

Tech giants battle for top minds with record-breaking deals

(Newser) - The bidding war for artificial intelligence talent is looking less like a job market and more like NBA free agency, minus the salary cap. Take 24-year-old Matt Deitke, per the New York Times : Meta dangled an initial offer of $125 million in cash and stock to recruit him from...

In Silicon Valley, 9 Households Own Staggering Piece of the Pie

About 15% of the wealth as the disparity of wealth in Silicon Valley is getting much, much worse

(Newser) - In Silicon Valley, the ultra-rich get richer while many residents struggle just to survive. The Guardian reports that economic inequality in the California region that's home to the likes of Apple, Google, and Meta has reached staggering new levels. According to San Jose State University's 2025 "Silicon...

Zuckerberg: Top AI Talent Has 3 Asks

Money is only one of them

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg says that when it comes to attracting top artificial intelligence researchers, the much-discussed hefty paycheck is only one factor. Speaking on The Information's TITV on Monday, the Meta CEO noted these highly sought-after specialists have two other priorities: minimal management responsibility and maximum access to computing...

Zuckerberg's 'List' Has Silicon Valley Buzzing

Meta chief is reportedly trying to poach top AI engineers with $100M salaries

(Newser) - In Silicon Valley, it's known as "The List," reports the Wall Street Journal . Compiled by Mark Zuckerberg over the last several months, this list includes the names of the leading engineers and researchers in artificial intelligence—and Zuckerberg is reportedly trying to recruit them all. The story...

Meta Is Trying to Poach OpenAI's 'Best' With $100M Offers

At least according to OpenAI chief Sam Altman, who says his top staffers are so far staying loyal

(Newser) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Meta is trying to lure his team members with substantial offers, including $100 million signing bonuses. The push comes as Meta invests heavily in artificial intelligence, recently spending $14 billion to acquire a major stake in the Scale AI startup. Despite the offers, Altman...

Meta Exec Apologizes to Conservative Activist

Robby Starbuck is suing for $5M, claiming company's AI defamed him

(Newser) - A conservative activist got a rare, personal apology from a top Meta exec over the tech giant's AI chatbot. Robby Starbuck, a former music video producer who has gained a following on the right with his anti-DEI videos, first alleged last year that Meta's chatbot was disseminating false...

Meta Unveils ChatGPT Rival
Meta Unveils
ChatGPT Rival
Apr 30, 2025 1:30 AM CDT

Meta Unveils ChatGPT Rival

App links Facebook and Instagram accounts for personalized AI experience

(Newser) - Meta is making its move in artificial intelligence with a new standalone app that blends AI with the familiar feel of social media in the company's bid to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. The app uses Meta's Llama 4 AI system and includes a "discover" feed...

Biggest Inauguration Donor Was a Poultry Company

Pilgrim's Pride gave $5M of Trump's record $239M haul

(Newser) - President Trump not only won the 2024 election, the campaign to raise cash for his inauguration also hit the jackpot. As NBC News reports, Trump's inaugural committee raised a staggering $239 million, smashing the previous record—also held by Trump from his first inauguration—of about $107 million. Bloomberg...

Trump, Musk Appear to Speak From Hacked Crosswalks

In 3 California cities, someone is clearly having fun at the expense of the billionaires

(Newser) - Officials in three California cities are trying to work out how voices mocking President Trump, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg were added to crosswalks. The crosswalks appear to have been hacked with the sole purpose of mocking the billionaires with AI-generated voices, per Business Insider . The audio message, "Walk...

Zuckerberg Testifies After Both Sides Signal Strategy

Meta contends it has competition, FTC says it effectively doesn't in the personal social networking market

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg led off the antitrust trial Monday that could force him to break up Meta, facing the task of convincing a federal court that the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not make his $1.4 trillion company a social media monopoly. The Meta CEO was the first person...

Meta's Empire Could Crumble in FTC Showdown
New Court Fight
Has Huge Stakes
for Zuckerberg
the rundown
Apr 14, 2025 9:45 AM CDT

New Court Fight Has Huge Stakes for Zuckerberg

Meta's antitrust trial begins Monday in Washington

(Newser) - The Federal Trade Commission is taking Meta to court. In a trial beginning Monday, the US government will argue that the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp broke competition laws in acquiring the latter two apps in 2012 and 2014, respectively. More:
  • The case: It began in December 2020 during
...

Jesse Eisenberg Wants to Cut His Link to Zuckerberg

Social Network actor played Meta CEO but doesn't want to be 'associated with somebody like that'

(Newser) - Jesse Eisenberg may have played Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg on the big screen in 2010's The Social Network, but any link beyond that isn't something Eisenberg is keen on. "I haven't been following [Zuckerberg's] life trajectory, partly because I don't want to think of...

Zuckerberg Tells Meta Employees to 'Buckle Up'

He defends working with Trump administration in all-hands employee meeting

(Newser) - "We try to be really open and then everything I say leaks. It sucks," Mark Zuckerberg said at an all-hands Meta meeting Thursday, according to details leaked to multiple outlets. According to a recording obtained by the Washington Post , the Meta CEO said the company's values haven'...

Meta Will Pay $25M to Settle Trump Lawsuit

President sued after Facebook, Instagram accounts were suspended in 2021

(Newser) - Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to President Trump to settle a lawsuit he filed in response to being kicked off the company's platforms the day after the Capitol riot. The company confirmed the settlement to the Wall Street Journal . Sources tell the AP that the settlement includes...

Dave Chappelle Had a Request for Trump in SNL Monologue

'Do better next time,' comedian urges

(Newser) - Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend, and offered up a 17-minute monologue being called controversial by multiple outlets. It was also SNL's longest monologue ever, NBC News reports. Among the topics he covered:
  • Trump: Toward the end of his monologue, Chappelle addressed the president-elect directly, the
...

Zuckerberg Just Took on Another Inaugural Role

Meta founder will co-host inaugural reception with Miriam Adelson, sports team owners

(Newser) - Meta founder, electric hydrofoil surfer , and now ... inaugural party host? It's already been announced that Mark Zuckerberg, whose company donated $1 million to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund, will be joining fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos on the platform at the president-elect's inauguration Monday. Zuck "...

Meta Firing Its 5% 'Lowest Performers'
Meta Is Laying Off Thousands
Jan 15, 2025 7:45 AM CST

Meta Is Laying Off Thousands

3.6K employees representing the 'lowest performers' will be out

(Newser) - Meta plans to fire thousands of workers who represent the 5% "lowest performers" across its 72,000-strong global workforce. Anticipating an "intense year," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he wants "the best people on our teams" and opted to "move out low-performers faster" than the...

World's 3 Richest Men Will Sit Together at Inauguration

Insider says Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg will be on platform with Trump's Cabinet nominees

(Newser) - The people in the top three spots on Forbes' billionaire list —Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg—will have prime seats at President-elect Trump's inauguration next week. NBC News , citing "an official involved with the planning of the event," reports that the three tech billionaires...

What Meta's Big Policy Change Might Mean
Meta's
Fact-Checker
Shift Has Big
Implications
the rundown
Jan 8, 2025 8:59 AM CST

Meta's Fact-Checker Shift Has Big Implications

And they might be most pronounced outside the US

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Meta was doing away with fact-checkers on Facebook, a sweeping policy shift with huge implications. A look at reaction from around the political spectrum:
  • About time: The conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal calls Zuckerberg's message a "mea culpa for the
...

Zuckerberg Wore a $900K Watch to Meta Announcement

He was sporting a Greubel Forsey 'Hand Made 1' in recent video announcement

(Newser) - As he announced Meta's decision to do away with third-party fact-checking on Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg was not exactly giving off a "one of us" vibe: The CEO was wearing a Swiss watch worth nearly a million bucks. As Bloomberg explains, the "extremely rare" Greubel Forsey "Hand...

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