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LlamaCon 2025—When and how to watch Meta's first AI conference
Meta will host its first-ever generative AI developer conference, LlamaCon, on April 29. The event will be completely virtual ...
Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over antitrust worries, email says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about ...
Meta Oversight Board Urges Company To Assess ‘Human Rights Impact’ Of Hateful Conduct Policy
Meta updated its hateful conduct policy in January, which alarmed some LGBTQ activists, as the updated policy specified users ...
Meta CEO Redefines Social Media in Antitrust Trial, But Legal Experts Say That May Not Convince...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg challenged the FTC's definition of the personal social networking market during the agency's ...
Google's Gemini usage is skyrocketing, but rivals like ChatGPT and Meta AI are still blowing it out of the water
Google's Gemini usage data was revealed this week by the tech giant during a court hearing in the company's internet search ...
Mark Zuckerberg tells court Meta faces broader competition than FTC says
The FTC and social media giant Meta made their opening statements as the first big antitrust trial of Trump’s second term ...
Temu's Tariff Troubles Could Throttle Meta's Growth
By the end of 2024, Temu had grown to 292 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide. As of last August, 185.6 million of ...
The list of major companies laying off staff this year, including Morgan Stanley, Wayfair, Block, and Meta
Layoffs have hit companies from HPE to Meta and Boeing already this year amid a backdrop of cost-cutting and technological ...
Videos disparaging trans women aren’t hate speech, Meta board says
Meta leaders Joel Kaplan and Nick Clegg told the social media company’s Oversight Board last year that videos reposted by Libs of TikTok should be treated carefully.
Meta’s Threads opens up ads to global advertisers
Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads ...