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Meta’s AI Shake-up: 600 Jobs Axed as Zuckerberg Doubles Down on “Superintelligence”

Meta’s AI Shake-up: 600 Jobs Axed as Zuckerberg Doubles Down on “Superintelligence”

Leaner AI Team, Same Big AI Bet Meta’s parent company (Nasdaq: META) quietly confirmed on Oct. 22 that it is “slashing” roughly 600 jobs from its superintelligence-focused AI unit reuters.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Axios first reported the cuts via an internal memo, and Reuters/Tech news sites (TechCrunch, The Verge) later confirmed that Meta is cutting staff in three of its four AI sub-units: research (FAIR), product AI, and infrastructure. By contrast, the TBD Labs – a newly formed group of “a few dozen” top researchers working on the next generation of foundation models – will not be affected reuters.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com. In other
23 October 2025
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Meta’s $1.5B AI Hiring Spree: Will Zuckerberg’s Talent Grab Send META Stock Soaring & Shake Up Apple’s XR Plans?

Meta’s $1.5B AI Hiring Spree: Will Zuckerberg’s Talent Grab Send META Stock Soaring & Shake Up Apple’s XR Plans?

Meta’s AI Talent Offensive Meta is doubling down on the AI arms race by snapping up top researchers. This month the company confirmed that Andrew Tulloch, the machine-learning specialist who co-founded Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, will join Meta reuters.com. A spokesperson said Tulloch “decided to pursue a different path,” and media reports say Zuckerberg personally courted him with a massive package. According to the Wall Street Journal and Calcalist, Tulloch’s compensation could reach $1.5 billion over several years through a combination of salary, bonuses and stock calcalistech.com reuters.com. (Meta has declined to comment on the exact figure.)
15 October 2025
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Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

OpenAI paused the release of an upcoming open-source AI model indefinitely due to safety concerns, with Sam Altman warning that weights once released can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model launched on July 14, 2025, claimed to outperform GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Elon Musk’s xAI rolled out Grok 4, a multimodal chatbot touted as the world’s smartest AI that can browse the web and run code, with SpaceX investing $2 billion as part of a $5 billion round and Grok slated to power Starlink support and Tesla’s Optimus robots. Hugging Face released
15 July 2025
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