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Congratulations to Google and Meta — they’re expecting.OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, was describing her company’s ads ambitions on Tuesday when she said that ChatGPT is like “if Google and Meta had a baby.”Friar made the remarks before a full room of investors and analysts at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tim Allen, whose family opened Holy Tacos in Rayville, Louisiana, in April 2025. Construction for Meta’s largest-ever AI data center is underway in Holly Ridge, an unincorporated community about 10 miles from Rayville.Rayville has been a small community my whole life,…
It can DJ. It can order food. It can book you a table at a restaurant. And of course, it can access your Instagram.These are some things Meta says its coming AI agent can do, according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider.Known internally as “Project Hatch,” the new…
Shuayb Qureshi didn’t know many people in New York, and his work at Meta made it hard for him to find new friends.So, on a whim, the now-31-year-old software engineer started posting videos on Instagram.”I’m like, maybe I can record myself doing some sort of stuff like that, talking to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Shen, the 40-year-old founder of Refactor Labs based in Brooklyn. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m the founder and CEO of Refactor Labs, an executive coach, and a cofounder conflict expert.I spent two years at Etsy as a…
“Are you a secret code?” a young man in Meta glasses asks a woman in a tank top on the sidewalk. “What do you mean, ‘a secret code?'” she responds, seemingly confused as the man’s glasses record her. “Because I’m trying to crack you,” he says.The interaction, filmed by content…
Meta’s AI strategy is, once again, worrying investors.The social media giant’s stock tumbled 10% on Wednesday after it disclosed that its capital expenditure growth far outpaced revenue growth.Meta has a core problem: much of this spending doesn’t yet have a financial return. About 98% of Meta’s revenue still comes from…
In his first-ever post on X, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called attention to how some of the biggest names in AI and tech are rallying together to defend the future of open-weight AI models.”AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country,” Huang wrote on…
Meta used AI-powered workplace systems to penalize employees for taking medical and parental leave and then selected them for layoffs, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.The complaint, filed by 26 current and former workers on Monday in federal court in Northern California, alleges that Meta relied on AI-assisted tools…
Meta is scaling up what was already slated to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has fueled “life-changing returns” for local teachers and businesses.The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in a blog post on Monday that the Richland Parish data center,…
