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After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday. Sutskever ultimately turned Meta down, according to CNBC, but the company is now in talks to hire Safe […]

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Meta unveils its Oakley smart glasses

Hardware / Sasandara Dilmina

After months of rumors, Meta has officially announced its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley. The smart glasses have double the battery life of the Meta Ray-Bans and are able to capture 3K video. The models are based on Oakley’s HSTN (pronounced “how-stuhn”) design, and are described as Meta’s “first product for athletes and

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A glitch is turning Threads into a literal echo chamber

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

We’ve heard it all — X is turning into a right-wing echo chamber, Bluesky is a liberal bubble, and so on. But a glitch on Threads has turned these concerns into a reality: everyone is saying the same exact thing over and over again. In a bug affecting some Threads users on desktop and mobile,

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Meta is reportedly building AI smart glasses with Prada, too

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Meta is working on a pair of AI smart glasses with the Italian high fashion brand, Prada, according to a report from CNBC on Tuesday. It’s unclear at this time when Meta’s Prada smart glasses will be publicly announced. The reported Prada collaboration signifies that Meta aims to bring its AI smart glasses technology to

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Instagram tests a reposts feature

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Instagram is testing the ability for users to repost posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The move doesn’t come as a surprise, as the social network was spotted developing the feature as far back as 2022. Some users have reported seeing the feature on their accounts, with one noting that users will be

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Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Meta’s big investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale $200 million this year but is now having conversations with its competitors and planning to cut ties. Microsoft is also reportedly looking to pull back, and OpenAI supposedly made a similar

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New details emerge on Meta’s $14.3B deal for Scale

Venture / Sasandara Dilmina

Meta’s deal to partially acquire the AI startup Scale, giving it 49% ownership, is certainly unusual. What Scale officially announced is that the deal values the company at over $29 billion and that it will “distribute” proceeds to shareholders and vested equity holders (aka employees) granting them with “substantial liquidity” while allowing them to continue

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Meta’s big AI bet and our not-so-hot-take on fintech IPOs

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Meta just made a $14.3 billion bet on data-labeling company Scale AI, but it’s not a traditional takeover: Meta’s taking a 49% stake in the company and adding Scale’s co-founder Alexandr Wang to its team. The move signals Meta’s growing urgency to keep up in the AI race, even if its strategy for competing with

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