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Alexandr Wang's Advice To Kids Sparks Backlash — Question Raised If Mark Zuckerberg Made A 'Big Mistake' Paying $14.3 Billion For Meta's New AI Chief

Meta Platforms, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) newly appointed Chief AI Officer, Alexandr Wang, has drawn sharp criticism after his advice to young people about "vibe coding" went viral, leaving many questioning Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's $14.3 billion investment.

Michael Burry Accuses Meta Platforms of ‘Common Fraud’ and Inflated Earnings. Should You Still Buy META Stock Now?

Michael Burry Accuses Meta Platforms of ‘Common Fraud’ and Inflated Earnings. Should You Still Buy META Stock Now?

The popular investor of Big Short fame has accused the social media giant of accounting jugglery.

Mark Zuckerberg's Patience 'Ran Out': Hyperbolic CTO Says Yann LeCun's Meta Exit Was Inevitable After $15 Billion Alexandr Wang Deal

Mark Zuckerberg's Patience 'Ran Out': Hyperbolic CTO Says Yann LeCun's Meta Exit Was Inevitable After $15 Billion Alexandr Wang Deal

On Tuesday, Hyperbolic co-founder and CTO Yuchen Jin alleged that Yann LeCun's reported decision to leave Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) was inevitable, suggesting that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's bet on Alexandr Wang and a shift in AI leadership left little room for the company's longtime chief scientist.

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The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg's highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup

LeCun is a Turing Award winner and considered one of the pioneers of modern artificial intelligence.

Jim Cramer Left Unimpressed With His ChatGPT Encounter: 'Hard To Believe Any Serious Entity Really Trusts These Chat Bots'

Jim Cramer has raised fresh doubts about the reliability of AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT after experiencing inconsistent answers firsthand.

King discusses AI risks with Nvidia founder and top scientists

Seven engineers each received a 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) to honour their work developing machine learning in the AI field.

Evening Standard

King warns of AI risks as he hands out awards to tech leaders

‘I need to talk to you’ was the first thing Charles told Mr Huang at the St James’ Palace event

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Meta bets big on start-up Scale AI with €12 billion investment and hires its co-founder

Meta bets big on start-up Scale AI with €12 billion investment and hires its co-founder

Scale AI has helped major tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft prepare the data they use to train AI models.

Meta invests in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for 'superintelligence' team

Meta invests in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for 'superintelligence' team

Meta said Thursday it is making a large investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant

The Independent UK

Meta’s ‘superintelligence’ effort with Scale AI founder highlights its scramble to keep pace in AI race

Meta’s ‘superintelligence’ effort with Scale AI founder highlights its scramble to keep pace in AI race

Zuckerberg is tapping a rising AI power broker in a high-stakes move to revive Meta’s generative AI ambitions after its recent Llama 4 flop and ongoing AI talent departures.

Samaya AI, startup selling AI tools to Wall Street, gets $43.5 million in new funding

Samaya AI, startup selling AI tools to Wall Street, gets $43.5 million in new funding

NEA led the round for the company, which is also backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Meta AI's Yann LeCun, Two Sigma's David Siegel, and former Goldman Sachs executive Marty Chavez

What are neural processing units (NPUs) and why are they so important to modern computing?

What are neural processing units (NPUs) and why are they so important to modern computing?

Neural processing unts (NPUs) are the latest chips you might find in smartphones and laptops — but what are they ard why are they so important?

Trump has unwittingly set off a brain drain of ‘intellectual refugees’ as U.S. applicants to U.K. jobs spike

Trump has unwittingly set off a brain drain of ‘intellectual refugees’ as U.S. applicants to U.K. jobs spike

The Trump administration's changes are prompting more Americans to consider leaving the U.S. for more freedom and stability.

Meta's head of AI research stepping down

The head of Meta’s artificial intelligence research division said she plans to step down, vacating a high-profile position at the parent company of Facebook and Instagram at a time of intense competition in the development of AI technology

The Independent UK

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Firms And Researchers At Odds Over Superhuman AI

Hype is growing from leaders of major AI companies that "strong" computer intelligence will imminently outstrip humans, but many researchers in the field see the claims as marketing spin.

Windows Central

Meta's Chief AI scientist says "AI is not replacing people" — Humans will boss AI around, including superintelligence

Meta's Chief AI scientist seemingly contests Bill Gates' prediction about AI replacing humans, claiming that intelligent systems will work for us.

U.K. startup CuspAI adds AI 'godfathers' to advisory board as it hoovers up top researchers from Google DeepMind

Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun both join advisory board of CuspAI, which aims to find novel materials that can help in the fight against climate change.

Trump’s budget cuts threaten AI research, top scientists warn

Academic research into AI is at risk from President Trump's cost-cutting, critics say.

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The most underreported and important story in AI right now is that pure scaling has failed to produce AGI

Grok 3’s somewhat underwhelming performance should be a wake-up call.

The Guardian - UK

AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years

Meta’s Yann LeCun says current systems too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars

Windows Central

"Woefully unjustified": Meta's AI lead scientist blasts market reactions to DeepSeek's cost-efficient model following NVIDIA's $600 billion valuation drop

Meta's lead AI scientist, Yann Lecun, says there's a "major misunderstanding" about the billion dollars invested in AI.

International Business Times UK

'The Power of Open Source': Meta's Chief AI Exec Opens Up on DeepSeek's Disruption in the Space

It is worth noting that his statement echoes Mark Zuckerberg's desire to make Meta's AI models–specifically Llama—open-source.

International Business Times

Meta Guru Urges Europe To Gamble More On AI

Europe should take greater risks and plough more money into artificial intelligence, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told AFP at the World Economic Forum.

Trump To Address World Economic Forum Virtually From Davos

Explore Donald Trump's participation at Davos World Economic Forum, focusing on business, technology, and geopolitical challenges.

How Mark Zuckerberg went all-in to make Meta a major AI player and threaten OpenAI’s dominance

Working with open-source models helped Llama catch up with ChatGPT; Meta stock, meanwhile, has reached all-time records.

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