From Llamas to Avocados: Meta’s shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion

From Llamas to Avocados: Meta’s shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company’s Llama family of artificial intelligence models that he predicted they would become the … Read more

Week in review: Stocks rise, Meta gets real on metaverse, and Salesforce bounces

Week in review: Stocks rise, Meta gets real on metaverse, and Salesforce bounces

Stocks eked out gains Friday and closed the week higher after the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge added to the case for an interest rate cut next week. For the week, the S & P 500 rose 0.3%, while the Nasdaq added nearly 1%. Both indexes logged back-to-back weekly gains. The Dow gained roughly 0.5%. … Read more

Design executive behind ‘Liquid Glass’ is leaving Apple

Design executive behind ‘Liquid Glass’ is leaving Apple

File: Then Apple Creative Director Alan Dye celebrates the launch of the July Issue at the new WIRED office on June 24, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White | Getty Images Apple‘s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta, in a notable shift of executive talent in Silicon Valley. The iPhone … Read more

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving Meta. LuCun said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup that specializes in a kind of AI technology that researchers … Read more

Despite Coinbase departure, only 28 companies have left Delaware this year

Despite Coinbase departure, only 28 companies have left Delaware this year

CEO of cryptocurrency platform Coinbase Brian Armstrong attends a reception at Buckingham Palace, in central London, on November 27, 2023 to mark the conclusion of the Global Investment Summit (GIS). (Photo by Daniel LEAL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Daniel Leal | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk has … Read more

Goldman Sachs stands by top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler after her emails with Jeffrey Epstein exposed

Goldman Sachs stands by top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler after her emails with Jeffrey Epstein exposed

Kathy Ruemmler, former White House Counsel, appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 29, 2014. William B. Plowman | NBC Newswire | NBCUniversal | Getty Images Goldman Sachs on Thursday strongly backed its top lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler, a day after a congressional committee released her chummy emails with notorious sex offender Jeffrey … Read more