Welcome to Silicon Valley's winner-take-all era

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Former OpenAI board member said companies are going to start trying to poach Meta's new AI hires from day one

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Mark Zuckerberg speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC.
"It'll be difficult. There's a lot of organizational politics at play," Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member, on whether Meta's new AI hires will pay off.

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Meta salaries: See how much AI engineers, researchers, and more at the tech giant get paid

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Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

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Leaked docs show how Meta is training its chatbots to message you first, remember your chats, and keep you talking

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Meta is trying to improve the quality of proactive messages from bots on AI Studio.

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Threads ups its game with DMs, distancing itself from Instagram's shadow

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Starting today, users on Threads will be able to text people directly via the app, through Direct Messages.

Meta's chief AI scientist says all countries should contribute data to a shared open-source AI model

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Yann LeCun speaking onstage.
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, talks about AI regulation.

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Meta says online harassment is up and false flags are down following a change in content moderation policies

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Meta sees an uptick in online harassment and graphic content in the first quarter of 2025.

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Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military

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Palmer Luckey (left) and Mark Zuckerberg (right)
Palmer Luckey (left) and Mark Zuckerberg (right)

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Better late than never? WhatsApp finally arrives on iPad for more seamless messaging

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After years of waiting, WhatsApp has officially launched its native app for Apple iPads, bringing its full suite of messaging and calling features to iPadOS.

Meta's Llama AI team has been bleeding talent. Many top researchers have joined French AI startup Mistral.

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Timothee Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample Mistral AI.
Timothée Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, and Guillaume Lample are the co-founders of Mistral AI. Lacroix and Lample were two of the authors of Meta's original Llama paper.

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