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‘I’m not giving up’: Sacked Indian-origin Meta worker
New Delhi: Among the 11,000 employees which Meta laid off last year in November is an Indian-origin worker who also lost her job, has shared her ordeal on LinkedIn, saying “I am…
- Business
Meta CEO fires 10K more employees, shuts 5K additional open roles
New Delhi: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced to sack an additional 10,000 employees via several job cut rounds in the coming months. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said…
- World
Facebook-parent Meta to lay off another 10,000 jobs
New York: Facebook-parent Meta on Tuesday said it will lay off another 10,000 workers and will not fill another 5,000 positions, announcing the second round of significant job cuts by the tech…
- Technology
Musk calls Meta ‘copy cat’ for planning to launch Twitter-rival
San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday mocked Meta for planning to launch a dedicated Twitter-like social media application and called it “copy cat”. It all started when the music news…
- Technology
Meta to begin laying off another 11K employees in multiple waves next week
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) looks all set to lay off another 13 per cent, or roughly 11,000 jobs, in its second round of job cuts and the first wave is likely…
- Technology
Meta to end Reels Play bonus programme on Insta, Fb
San Francisco: Meta will be ending its “Reels Play bonus programme” on both Instagram and Facebook for creators in the US, the media reported. The programme used to reward content creators when…
- Technology
WhatsApp rolling out ‘Push name within chat list’ feature on iOS beta
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a new “Push name within the chat list” feature on iOS beta. Beta testers will now see push names within the chat list…
- Technology
Meta sees strong trend in women entrepreneurs using its apps in India
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) on Monday said that it has continued to see a strong trend towards women entrepreneurs using its apps in India over the last three years. About 73…
- Business
Meta expanding Instagram’s age verification test to 6 more countries
San Francisco: Meta has announced that it is expanding its “age verification test” on Instagram to six more countries, including Europe and Canada. “Starting today, we’re beginning to expand our age verification…
- Technology
Meta may release smart glasses, smartwatch in 2025
San Francisco: Meta is reportedly planning to release its first pair of smart glasses with a display alongside a neural interface smartwatch designed to control them in 2025. In addition, the company…
- Business
Meta creating team to build AI tools: CEO
San Francisco: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is creating a new “top-level” product team which will be “focused” on generative artificial intelligence (AI). On Monday, Zuckerberg posted on…
- Jobs
417 tech firms lay off over 1.2 lakh employees in Jan-Feb alone
New Delhi: The year 2023 is set to become the worst year for tech employees as in just two months, 417 companies have laid off more than 1.2 lakh workers globally. In…
- Technology
Meta’s LLaMA: Advancing AI research with a groundbreaking language model
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is releasing a new AI language generator called LLaMA, which is not a system that anyone can talk to but rather a research tool aimed at democratizing access…
- Technology
Meta joins AI chatbot race with own large language model for researchers
New Delhi: After Microsoft ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, Meta is joining the AI chatbot race with its own state-of-the-art foundational large language model designed to help researchers advance their work in the…
- Technology
Meta rolls out its paid verification in Australia, New Zealand
San Francisco: Meta has rolled out its paid subscription plan for Facebook and Instagram to users based in Australia and New Zealand. The subscription plan known as “Meta Verified” offers a verified…
