Update, 4 May, 12:30 Phase two of New Mexico v. Meta Platforms opened on Monday in Santa Fe with three meaningful additions to what was previously known. According to Reuters, state Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office is now expected to call roughly 15 witnesses, including expert testimony on the technical feasibility of the proposed remedies, […]
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Lerrel Pinto co-founded Fauna Robotics, a startup that built an approachable bipedal robot called Sprout. He left in 2025. Amazon acquired Fauna in March, along with its 50 employees and its $50,000, three-and-a-half-foot-tall dancing humanoid, to enter the consumer robotics market. Pinto then co-founded Assured Robot Intelligence with Xiaolong Wang, a former Nvidia researcher and associate […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s earnings call on Wednesday was about AI. It was about the $125 billion to $145 billion Meta plans to spend on capital expenditure in 2026. It was about Llama models and recommendation engines and the advertising systems that generate $56 billion in quarterly revenue. It was not about children. No investor asked Zuckerberg […]
At a Thursday town hall, the Meta CEO made the explicit trade-off he had previously left implicit: ‘We basically have two major cost centres in the company: compute infrastructure and people-oriented things.’ The chief people officer also declined to rule out additional layoffs Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attributed the company’s upcoming layoffs to its rising […]
In February 2026, workers at Sama, a Nairobi-based outsourcing company contracted by Meta, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that they had been reviewing footage captured by users of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. The footage included people having sex, going to the toilet, undressing, and handling bank details. The workers’ job was to label […]
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