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Meta could spark a price war in the booming AI coding market.The tech giant announced its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, on Thursday, saying it performs well on industry tests for coding and AI agents. It’s Meta’s first AI model that it charges users for.In comments on X, Meta…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shed new light on the data leak that made the company pause its unpopular Model Capability Initiative.In an interview with The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson, released on Wednesday, Bosworth spoke about why Meta paused the AI training program that involved tracking employee keystrokes. The interview was…
Officials in the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a massive, under-construction Meta data center campus located just south of the city is responsible for contaminating part of its recycled water system.Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities said in recent public notices that water discharged by Goat Systems, a Meta contractor at…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chikara Kennedy, the 43-year-old CEO of Chikara Power Coaching, who lives in Mexico. Business Insider has verified Kennedy’s income and employment with documentation and edited her words for length and clarity.Before launching my own company in 2024, I worked at Meta…
Get ready for another Meta app.Meta is rolling out Pocket, a new social AI app, Business Insider has learned. Meta describes the Pocket as a platform to “create, share, and discover gizmos with friends.”The app is listed on Meta’s Help Center and in the Google Play Store. The timeline and…
The next AI career path could start with a hard hat, not a laptop.Meta said Monday it is investing a $115 million in a roughly 5-week program aimed at fast-tracking careers in the skilled trades as it looks to build out data centers to support its massive AI ambitions.Called “America’s…
More than 35 companies have laid off employees so far in 2026, continuing the trend of significant workforce reductions across a broad range of industries, including tech, media, finance, and retail.Some, including Block, Coinbase, and Standard Chartered, have cited the impact of artificial intelligence as a key reason for the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brittney Ball, a 36-year-old former Meta employee based in Washington DC. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I didn’t anticipate being unemployed for over a year after my layoff at Meta. I assumed that, coming from Meta with my skillset, there’s…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Raymond Zeng, 24, a Meta software engineer living in the San Francisco Bay area. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been told by many of my friends that my living situation is very “Spartan.” I don’t own a car,…
I spent over 10 years at Meta, joining in 2012 when the company was still called Facebook and the newly acquired Instagram team occupied just two rows of stand-up desks in a half-filled Menlo Park campus.As a global director, I helped lead a creative group launching campaigns with Marvel, Disney,…
