Meta, Mark Zuckerberg and AI
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The debut episode of The Information’s video podcast suffered a serious setback this week after an interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to be paused because the podcasters couldn’t get the interviewee’s audio to work.
"Here, people say, 'I want the fewest number of people reporting to me and the most GPUs,'" Mark Zuckerberg said about the AI talent war.
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Mark Zuckerberg is slated to make yet another high-stakes courtroom appearance this week as shareholders seek to hold him accountable for the more than $8 billion that Meta has spent to settle lawsuits over privacy violations.
Prometheus will come online in 2026 acting as Meta's first-ever 1GW lab, with Hyperion launching in the years after, scaling AI compute power to 5GW, and these are Meta's mainstream AI projects. Meta will add multiple new AI clusters over the years, showing that the company is pushing heavily into AI, and plans to overtake the industry.
Shareholders claim that Mark Zuckerberg and other top officials should have to reimburse Facebook for $8 billion in fines and penalties.
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Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear as a star witness in an unusual $8 billion trial that kicks off this week at which the Meta CEO is accused of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that allowed users' data to be harvested without their consent.
For some time, the list of world's top 10 richest men was a bit stagnant, with Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk perched at the top followed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. Now, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have gone down one rank each and the number two position has been acquired by Larry Ellison,
Meta has hired Vercept co-founder and computer vision researcher Matt Deitke to join its Superintelligence Lab, part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s push to build advanced AI systems.