Meta forced roughly 6,500 engineers into a new unit called Agent Data Optimization to manufacture training data for AI models, a move employees describe as soul-crushing and liken to a gulag. The invo…
Big Tech executives, including Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, have reversed their warnings that AI would cause mass unemployment, now claiming it will create jobs and lead to a labor shortage. The shift c…
Meta employees are revolting against CEO Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive push into artificial intelligence, with some describing the work environment as 'the gulag.' The internal backlash highlights grow…
Meta's Applied AI unit, a 6,500-person team created to power CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI ambitions, is in turmoil after elite engineers were forcibly reassigned to data-labeling tasks, with employees des…
Meta's newly appointed President Dina Powell McCormick is leveraging her Wall Street connections, including relationships with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, to secure financing for the company's massive A…
Graham Norton has won a US court order forcing Meta to reveal the source of AI-generated deepfake Facebook posts that falsely reported his mother's death and his own ill health. The Irish presenter fi…
Emily Dalton Smith, the Meta executive leading the company's internal AI overhaul, is leaving after just two months on the job. Her departure comes as Meta pushes to reorganize around AI agents, raisi…
Emily Dalton Smith, the Meta executive appointed in April to lead product work for the company's AI restructuring, has left after just two months. Her departure adds to leadership turbulence as Meta p…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees the company made mistakes during its AI workforce transformation, which included cutting 10% of its global workforce and reassigning 7,000 employees to AI roles…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered remaining employees to participate in a three-day AI hackathon to rebuild 'hacker culture' weeks after laying off 8,000 workers. The move was met with employee backlas…
Meta's head of product for its AI for Work initiative has left the company amid a sweeping restructuring that will lay off 8,000 employees and reassign 7,000 to AI roles. The departure adds leadership…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an internal company-wide AI hackathon scheduled for July 14-16, aiming to revive hacker culture. Employees, many of whom absorbed workloads after roughly 8,000 recen…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered employees to have fun and participate in a companywide AI hackathon, but workers pushed back, citing low morale after brutal layoffs that cut 8,000 jobs last month. Th…
Meta is systematically dismantling its high-performance engineering culture, shifting from a profit center to a cost center in weeks. Leadership's AI-focused mandates and restructuring have caused wid…
California faces a moral crossroads as AI-driven wealth concentration mirrors the industrial revolution's excesses, prompting debates over a billionaire tax and Pope Leo XIV's call for ethical AI guar…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees the company's rollout of its new Applied AI organization was 'atrocious,' according to an internal post seen by WIRED. The rare admission comes as Meta tries to…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth admitted the company's rollout of a new AI division was 'atrocious,' citing poor communication and career growth concerns among 6,500 engineers. The internal unrest follows wi…
Meta's Applied AI unit, formed in March to support AI research, has become a source of intense employee dissatisfaction, with workers describing the work as 'soul-crushing' and 'mechanical.' During a …
Meta's new Applied AI team, created to support its Superintelligence Labs, is suffering from record-low morale amid layoffs, surveillance initiatives, and soul-crushing busywork, with employees descri…
A Meta employee hijacked a company-wide livestream to deliver a profanity-laced tirade against a senior executive, highlighting widespread dissatisfaction within Meta's Applied AI division. The outbur…