Mark Zuckerberg says he is absolutely not abandoning the metaverse as company division loses $4 billion

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Mark Zuckerberg has become so obsessed with AI that one Wall Street research firm is jesting that Facebook will change its name to MetAI

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Mark Zuckerberg showed full avatar at Meta connect event
Mark Zuckerberg showed full avatar at Meta connect event

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Meta has reportedly stopped pitching advertisers on the metaverse

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Less than one year after Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg was pushing the Metaverse, the firm has moved away from the technology in meetings with advertisers.

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Apple's smart goggles could be the shot in the arm the whole industry needs

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Apple is said to bei introducing the Reality Pro smart goggles later as soon as June. It'll make Apple a challenger in a market where competitors like Google and Microsoft have sputtered.

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Meta can't make any big acquisitions right now, as its $40 billion war chest starts going towards appeasing Wall Street investors

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference on April 18, 2017 at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The conference will explore Facebook's new technology initiatives and products.
Investors are pushing Meta to focus less on the metaverse and more on its established core businesses.

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They Got Married in a Taco Bell in the Metaverse

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Zuckerberg Pivots to AI After Pivoting to the Metaverse

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With the rise and proliferation of advanced, large language model chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, everyone and their mother seems to be talking about AI.

I Went to a Wedding at a Taco Bell in the Metaverse, Which Is Exactly What the Metaverse Should Be

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“And I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw…” —Revelations 6:1-2

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Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions are shrinking

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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I visited Home Depot in the metaverse to try to understand why retailers are flocking to it, and the experience left me baffled but somewhat impressed

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My virtual avatar in the virtual Home Depot.

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