Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on LlamaCon, Llama API, Meta's AI opportunity, social networking 2.0, Ray-Bans, Apple, the Meta AI app, tariffs, Reality Labs, and more
An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Llama and the AI opportunity, the evolution of social medial, and what it means to connect.
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, vs. $41.4B est., net income up 35% to $16.6B, family daily active people up 6% to 3.43B on average for March 2025
and why simply isolating Chinese advertising spend was misguided... X: Roman Helmet Guy / @romanhelmetguy : Zuckerberg explaining how Meta is creating personalized AI friends to su...
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries
it was begun for hookups, parties, and puppies but readers and publishers added news in their own posts. News came to depend on Facebook for links and audience — that's why publis...
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries
Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.
Australian telecom Optus says its mobile network has been restored and “most services should now be online” after an hours-long outage affected 10M+ customers
“One of my patients had a cardiac arrest, I couldn't call an ambulance,” he said. Adj. Professor Warwick Powell : “Could do better” is possibly the understatement of the year. — ...
Masayoshi Son says SoftBank plans to go on the “counteroffensive” soon by resuming AI investments; the group has $35B+ after halting investments in recent years
Billionaire chief talks up AI and reveals he had breakdown in October where he questioned his achievements as an entrepreneur
Binance Australia can no longer offer Australian dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, its “payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg :
Binance Australia can no longer offer Aussie dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, “our payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions
The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B
SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate …
Internal memo: Sydney-based MilkRun, which offered grocery deliveries in 20 minutes or less and raised a AU$75M Series A led by Tiger Global in 2022, is closing
Australian Financial Review :
Internal memo: Sydney-based MilkRun, which offered grocery deliveries in 20 minutes or less and raised a AU$75M Series A led by Tiger Global in 2022, is closing
Australian Financial Review :
In February, Instagram plans to replace the Shop tab with a Reels button in the app's bottom navigation bar and return the Compose button to the center
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sam Bankman-Fried appears in NY federal court charged with wire fraud and other crimes; a judge grants a $250M bail confining him to his parents' Palo Alto home
Sam Bankman-Fried will be released on a $250 million bond package while he awaits trial on fraud charges related to the collapse …
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales”
Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover
The Australian Securities Exchange drops its blockchain project announced in 2017 to replace its settlement and clearing system, causing a $165M-$172M write-off
- The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is dropping a long-in-the-making blockchain-powered replacement for its CHESS settlement and clearing system.
Under Texas' social media law, Kanye West's antisemitic posts on Twitter and Instagram would likely stay up, signaling a difficult future for social media
Taking down the rapper's bigoted posts was an easy call for Twitter and Instagram. That could change if Elon Musk and some GOP leaders have their way.
In a court hearing over Crypto.com erroneously sending an Australian woman $10.5M, an executive says a worker in Bulgaria entered the wrong data on Excel
Money from crypto exchange was allegedly used to buy four houses worth $4m, vehicles, art and furniture, police officer tells court
US intelligence officials worry that the Islamic State could use NFTs to spread messages and evade censorship, after IS posted its first NFT following an attack
National-security analysts see potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding — WASHINGTON—A simple digital …
Report on Apple's eight-year self-driving car struggle as 20 people from the project cite “constantly shifting goals”, a “revolving door of leaders”, and more
and nearly a jogger Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Apple car won't need a steering wheel Ariel Zilber / New York Post : Apple's self-driving cars ‘smacked into curbs, veered out of lanes...