Mark Zuckerberg says AI ‘Superintelligence’ vision will help people achieve personal goals but what does that mean?

Mark Zuckerberg says AI ‘Superintelligence’ vision will help people achieve personal goals but what does that mean?

Mark Zuckerberg, the most powerful person in Silicon Valley, doesn’t want to take the path where artificial intelligence automates everything and puts people out of their jobs. Instead, his vision for creating “personal intelligence” is rooted in the idea that people should use AI to achieve their personal goals. “Meta’s vision is to bring personal […]

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Flipkart Freedom Sale to roll out August 1: A look at top deals

Flipkart Freedom Sale to roll out August 1: A look at top deals

Flipkart has announced that its 2025 Freedom Sale will go live on August 1 for Plus subscribers, with access opening to all users from August 2. Early access remains one of the key benefits of Flipkart Plus, along with additional savings such as a 10 per cent discount when using Super Coins on top of […]

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Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab

Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab

Meta Platforms has appointed Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, as the company accelerates its push into advanced AI. “In this role, Shengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for our new lab working directly with me and Alex,” Zuckerberg wrote […]

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Scale AI cuts 700 jobs month after Meta’s investment, cites Gen AI-related restructuring

Scale AI cuts 700 jobs month after Meta’s investment, cites Gen AI-related restructuring

Nearly a month after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI for a 49 per cent stake, the latter seems to have let go of a large part of its workforce. The company, which is known to be a training data provider for AI companies, has reportedly fired 14 per cent of its workforce, which […]

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Meta’s Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI data centers in superintelligence push

Meta’s Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI data centers in superintelligence push

Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers. The social media giant is among the large tech companies that have struck high-profile deals […]

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Who is Ruoming Pang, the ex-Apple AI researcher now poached by Meta?

Who is Ruoming Pang, the ex-Apple AI researcher now poached by Meta?

Big tech companies seem to be witnessing unprecedented poaching of talent within the industry. A week after Meta poached top AI researchers from rival OpenAI, Apple seems to have lost one of its top AI researchers to Meta. Ruoming Pang, who is said to be one of Apple’s top executives working on AI, has reportedly […]

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Sam Altman likens Meta’s poaching spree to mercenaries, warns of cultural risks in leaked memo

Sam Altman likens Meta’s poaching spree to mercenaries, warns of cultural risks in leaked memo

The rift between Meta and OpenAI seems to be far from over. Meta recently released its list of AI researchers that were poached from OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who had earlier expressed his displeasure with Meta’s transgressions, seems to have been hitting back. According to a report in Wired, Altman, in […]

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Meta pursued AI video generation startup Runway before .3B Scale AI deal: Report

Meta pursued AI video generation startup Runway before $14.3B Scale AI deal: Report

Meta seems to be operating with a renewed urgency to dominate the AI race as the social media giant has quietly explored acquiring several startups, including video generation firm Runway, in recent weeks. The Facebook and Instagram parent held talks with Runway over a potential takeover ahead of its announcement about making a multi-billion-dollar investment […]

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Sam Altman likens Meta’s poaching spree to mercenaries, warns of cultural risks in leaked memo

Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta has offered his employees bonuses of $100 million to recruit them, as the tech giant seeks to ramp up its artificial intelligence strategy. The alleged attempts by Meta to hire OpenAI staffers are the latest signs of a frenzy to hire top engineers to develop AI models, and […]

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