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Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is a social media and technology conglomerate that operates various platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR. Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company has become a household name and has divisions dedicated to advertising, virtual reality, and more. Competitors in the space include Google, Twitter, TikTok, and Snapchat.

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Applied AI

Snowflake CIO Says He Used Layoffs to Convince Staff to Use AI

By Laura Bratton and Aaron Holmes · Jun 4, 2026 10:30am PDT
Tech firms ranging from Block to Meta Platforms have announced mass layoffs in the past year, frequently citing AI as allowing them to do more with less people. In a variation on that approach Snowflake says it used layoffs to force software engineers to use AI tools and become more productive.“At the time, my team hated me, but I thought it was... Tech firms ranging from Block to Meta Platforms have announced mass layoffs in the past year,...
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI. Photo by Marc Fong
AI Agenda

Billionaire Databricks and Perplexity Co-Founder Pitches AI Researchers to Not Work for Big Tech

By Laura Bratton · Jun 4, 2026 7:00am PDT · 2 comments
The billionaire co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, Andy Konwinski, is singularly focused on plugging the years-long drain of talent from academia to Big Tech.He wants to encourage academics to focus on publishing more openly available research, a reaction to the move by frontier AI companies to reduce the amount of AI research they... The billionaire co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, Andy Konwinski, is singularly focused...
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Deep Research

Tech’s 2026 Halftime Report: From AI Hype to Hard Limits

By The Information Staff · Jun 4, 2026 6:22am PDT
The first half of 2026 has been a reality check for the tech industry. After two years defined by the rush to build, fund and deploy generative AI, the biggest questions are moving beyond model rankings and chip counts. The year’s defining stories are increasingly about what happens when huge ambitions collide with harder limits on cost,... The first half of 2026 has been a reality check for the tech industry. After two years defined by...
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Meta Platforms to Lay Off Hundreds

By Jyoti Mann · Mar 25, 2026 6:36am PDT
Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to overhaul the company for work in the AI age. The cuts will affect staffers in Reality Labs — the division behind its hardware platforms and wearables — as well as across its... Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to...