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Here’s why you’re suddenly following President Trump on Instagram
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Here’s why you’re suddenly following President Trump on Instagram

(L-R) Priscilla Chan, CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.  Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Instagram users are complaining this week that they’re […]

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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO
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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO

Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role in the artificial intelligence. Databricks works closely with Meta’s Llama […]

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Goldman Sachs rolls out an AI assistant for its employees as artificial intelligence sweeps Wall Street
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Goldman Sachs rolls out an AI assistant for its employees as artificial intelligence sweeps Wall Street

Key Points Goldman Sachs is rolling out a generative AI assistant to its bankers, traders and asset managers, the first stage in the evolution of a program that will eventually take on the traits of a seasoned Goldman employee, according to Chief Information Officer Marco Argenti. The bank has released a program called GS AI […]

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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump
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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023.  SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. Senators on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he’s attempting to “cozy up to the incoming Trump administration” with […]

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TikTok CEO expected to attend Trump’s inauguration, NBC reports
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TikTok CEO expected to attend Trump’s inauguration, NBC reports

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing entitled “TikTok: How Congress can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms,” as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected […]

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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will attend Trump inauguration, NBC reports
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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will attend Trump inauguration, NBC reports

Elon Musk embraces Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Oct. 5, 2024. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, NBC News reported on Tuesday. They will be seated on the platform near […]

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Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple on its lack of innovation and ‘random rules’
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Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple on its lack of innovation and ‘random rules’

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech giant Apple for lackluster innovation efforts and “random rules” in a lengthy podcast interview on Friday. “On the one hand, [the iPhone has] […]

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Why Meta had to ‘bend the knee to Trump’ ahead of his inauguration
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Why Meta had to ‘bend the knee to Trump’ ahead of his inauguration

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week that Meta would pivot its moderation policies to allow more “free expression” was widely viewed as the company’s latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump.  More than any of its Silicon Valley peers, Meta has taken numerous public steps to make amends with […]

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Zuckerberg says Biden administration pushed Meta ‘super hard’ to take down vaccine content
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Zuckerberg says Biden administration pushed Meta ‘super hard’ to take down vaccine content

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published Friday that his company was pressured by the Biden administration to remove content on side effects of Covid vaccines. […]

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Meta announces end of DEI programs. Read the internal memo
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Meta announces end of DEI programs. Read the internal memo

Meta on Friday told employees that its plans to end a number of internal programs designed to increase the company’s hiring of diverse candidates, the latest dramatic change ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second White House term. Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of people, made the announcement on the company’s Workplace internal communications forum. Among […]

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