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Sal Rodriguez

@sal19
79 posts
2026-01-26
VR winter is here https://www.cnbc.com/... By @JonathanVanian
2026-01-26 View on X
CNBC

Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future

Meta's deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses has chilled the industry, leading to concerns about its future.

2026-01-25
VR winter is here https://www.cnbc.com/... By @JonathanVanian
2026-01-25 View on X
CNBC

Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future

Meta's deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses has chilled the industry, leading to concerns about its future.

2025-12-21
Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive https://www.cnbc.com/... excellent profile of Google's Josh Woodward by @jenn_elias
2025-12-21 View on X
CNBC

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October

Josh Woodward may not be a household name in Silicon Valley.  But inside Google, everybody knows about him.

2025-09-28
An excellent, months-long investigation by @JonathanVanian into the real-world impact that AI-powered “nudify” apps had on a community in Minneapolis. This is a piece that shows how easily anyone can now fall victim to deepfake pornography https://www.cnbc.com/...
2025-09-28 View on X
CNBC

A look at AI-powered “nudify” tools, which make it fast and easy to make nonconsensual, deepfake porn, and the limited legal options available to their victims

In June of last year, Jessica Guistolise received a text message that would change her life.

2025-08-23
NEW on Meta: CNBC has extensive details on the company's upcoming Hypernova device, its first consumer-ready glasses with a display, and its accompanying neural-tech wristband https://www.cnbc.com/... with @lorakolodny & @JonathanVanian
2025-08-23 View on X
CNBC

Sources: Meta plans to launch its first glasses with a display and a wristband that lets users control the glasses with hand gestures, at Connect in September

Meta is planning to use its annual Connect conference next month to announce a deeper push into smart glasses …

2025-06-18
Meta is set to unveil its next Oakley brand line of smart glasses this week, but CNBC has learned that the social media company is also working with on a Prada version of its wearable devices.  Here's our SCOOP:  —  www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/m...  with @jonathanvanian.bsky.social
2025-06-18 View on X
CNBC

Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan to release AI smart glasses aimed at athletes under the Oakley and Prada brands; the Oakley version could cost ~$360

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/m...  with @jonathanvanian.bsky.social Instagram: Meta : The next evolution is coming on June 20. X: Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : Anyone remember Oakley's ...

2025-05-15
Big one we've been working on for a while: AI research takes a backseat to profits as Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, experts say www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/m... by @haydenfield.bsky.social, @jonathanvanian.bsky.social & @jennelias.bsky.social
2025-05-15 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI launches the “Safety evaluations hub”, a webpage showing how its models score on tests for harmful content generation, jailbreaks, and hallucinations

OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit …

Big one we've been working on for a while: AI research takes a backseat to profits as Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, experts say www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/m... by @haydenfield.bsky.social, @jonathanvanian.bsky.social & @jennelias.bsky.social
2025-05-15 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 in ChatGPT for Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers “by popular request”, and replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini for all ChatGPT users

OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models in ChatGPT, the company announced in a post on X Wednesday.

2025-03-28
Can't believe they didn't call this Facebook Classic https://www.cnbc.com/... by @JonathanVanian
2025-03-28 View on X
New York Times

Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences

Here's How to See Posts From Your Friends Instead of Algorithms Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes ‘throwback to OG Facebook’ Emma Crabtree / ...

2025-03-22
AMD's Lisa Su has already vanquished Intel. Now she's going after Nvidia https://www.cnbc.com/... fantastic profile by @kifleswing as part of CNBC's coverage for Women's History Month
2025-03-22 View on X
CNBC

A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023

When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy.

2025-03-16
Google is considering bringing back in-person job interviews as a way to combat software developers' use of invisible AI tools to cheat in their evaluations https://www.cnbc.com/... @jenn_elias delves into the world of AI cheating in this incredible enterprise story:
2025-03-16 View on X
CNBC

Google and other companies are considering bringing back in-person job interviews, as some startups sell AI tools that let engineers cheat in virtual interviews

After landing internship offers from Amazon, Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco.

2025-02-28
We've got a Meta SCOOP: Social media company plans to release a standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT https://www.cnbc.com/... by @JonathanVanian
2025-02-28 View on X
CNBC

Sources: Meta plans to launch a standalone Meta AI app in Q2 and test a paid subscription service for Meta AI, as Zuckerberg tries to make Meta the leader in AI

Meta AI will soon become one of the social media company's standalone apps, joining Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, CNBC has learned.

2024-09-20
Disney abandoning Slack, as reported by @RWhelanWSJ, is particularly notable to me considering Microsoft didn't start taking Slack seriously until learning in 2015 that Disney basically stopped using email bc of Slack, which I reported for Reuters. How times have changed!
2024-09-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most units by the end of 2024, after a hacking group leaked 1TB+ of its data, including 44M Slack messages, in July

The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year

2024-05-30
Meta took down a network of inauthentic accounts with links to a firm in Israel that was targeting American FB and IG users with AI-generated text comments that praised Israel and criticized campus antisemitism https://www.wsj.com/... my latest with @dnvolz and @samschech
2024-05-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and others, some of which used AI to generate disinformation

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg :

2024-04-25
Zuckerberg to analysts just now: “We're in a place where we've shown that we can build leading models and be the leading AI company in the world.”
2024-04-25 View on X
Meta Investor Relations

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B on average for March 2024

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.

Zuckerberg to analysts just now: “We're in a place where we've shown that we can build leading models and be the leading AI company in the world.”
2024-04-25 View on X
CNBC

Meta's stock drops 10%+ on weak Q2 revenue guidance and increasing FY 2024 capital expenditures from $30B-$37B to $35B-$40B due to AI infrastructure investments

should investors consider buying? Kathleen Gallagher / Business Post : Shares in Meta plummet as it forecasts spending spree TJ Denzer / Shacknews : Facebook (META) issues Q2 2024 ...

2024-03-17
Our latest scoop on Meta: The U.S. Is Investigating the Facebook and Instagram Parent Company for Role in Drug Sales https://www.wsj.com/... with @anfuller and @khadeeja_safdar
2024-03-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: US prosecutors in Virginia, with FDA's help, are investigating whether Meta's platforms are facilitating and profiting from the illegal sale of drugs

Federal prosecutors are looking into whether platforms including Facebook facilitate and profit from illicit sale of drugs

2024-02-16
Meta and Apple are at it again, this time with Meta publishing instructions so advertisers can avoid paying a new 30% charge to Apple for boosted posts.  Those posts are a type of advertisement that generates billions of dollars in revenue annually for Meta and is critical to its SMB business, insiders tell me
2024-02-16 View on X
The Verge

Meta plans to start charging a 30% fee for boosting Facebook and Instagram posts on iOS later in February, after Apple extended its 30% cut to boosting in 2022

Emma Roth / The Verge :

2023-12-01
Here's our latest: Meta's Threads to launch in Europe next month in app's biggest expansion since its launch https://www.wsj.com/... with @samschech & @MeghanBobrowsky
2023-12-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Meta plans to launch Threads in Europe in December, the largest expansion since its July debut, offering a choice of using Threads without a profile

Expansion is expected in December, a signal of company's commitment to microblogging service  —  Facebook parent Meta Platforms plans …

Here's our latest: Meta's Threads to launch in Europe next month in app's biggest expansion since its launch https://www.wsj.com/... with @samschech & @MeghanBobrowsky
2023-12-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta expands Threads' keyword search feature to all markets where the app is available, with support for “all languages”, after testing in English and Spanish

news, posts, hot takes, etc — on whatever is breaking. … Steven L Herman / @newsguyusa : Good news for those who want to follow news despite the platform's owner ambivalence about ...