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Zuckerberg rejects AI slowdown, says safety is labs’ job

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls for an industry-wide slowdown in artificial intelligence development. In an interview with the Financial Times Pearson plc, he said responsibility for model safety should fall on individual labs, Reuters reported. Zuckerberg…

Meta launches Wonder AI models, says they rival OpenAI

Meta on Monday, Oct. 12, released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. The company calls them its most capable artificial intelligence models so far and says they perform on par with systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta's shares rose about…

Meta unveils Muse Wonder, says it matches top AI rivals

Meta Platforms on Monday released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. The company calls them its most advanced artificial intelligence models and says they compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. Bloomberg reported that the release is the…

Zuckerberg pushed AI agent launch despite risks, NYT says

In August, Mark Zuckerberg decided that Meta's Muse AI agent was ready for public release despite unresolved safety concerns. According to The New York Times, the decision came soon after Instinct, a 14-person startup, saw its own agent take off…

Zuckerberg overtakes Brin as world’s fifth richest on Meta’s Muse-fueled rally

Mark Zuckerberg overtook Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Wednesday to become the fifth-wealthiest person in the world, riding a wave of investor enthusiasm around Meta Platforms' new AI personal assistant, Muse. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg's net worth reached $256.8 billion,…

Musk, Zuckerberg urge G20 ministers to back AI data center expansion

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg appeared virtually before G20 technology ministers on Tuesday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pressing governments to accelerate the construction of AI data centers and the power infrastructure needed to run them. The appeals came amid…

Musk, Zuckerberg urge G20 to build more AI data centers

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday urged world leaders to accelerate the construction of AI data centers and the power infrastructure to support them, as the G20 Innovation Ministerial convened in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for two days of…

Reuters reveals Meta scrapped major AI layoff plan amid internal turmoil

Meta abandoned plans for a second round of sweeping layoffs after its ambitious initiative to reorganize the company around artificial intelligence ran into employee resistance and failed to deliver promised productivity gains, according to a Reuters investigation published on Tuesday.

Zuckerberg argues open-source AI is a safety imperative in new manifesto

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a sweeping 6,500-word open letter on Monday titled "The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future," arguing that broadly distributing superintelligent AI is not just an economic opportunity but a…

Meta releases open-source version of its top AI model

Meta on Monday released an open-source version of its most advanced artificial intelligence model, marking a return to the company's earlier practice of freely distributing its AI technology after months of keeping its flagship Muse Spark system proprietary.

Meta shares drop as Zuckerberg bets future on AI agents

Mark Zuckerberg used Meta's second-quarter 2026 earnings call on Wednesday to stake the company's future on a sweeping prediction: within five years, billions of people will have personal AI agents working around the clock on their behalf.

Zuckerberg posts on X for first time in 3 years to launch Meta AI model

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X on Thursday to unveil the company's latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, choosing rival Elon Musk's platform over Meta's own Threads for the high-profile product launch. The post marked only…

Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI agent push is lagging expectations

Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Thursday that the company's AI agent development over the last four months has not "accelerated in the way we expected," according to a recording of an internal town hall heard by Reuters.