Jyoti Mann

Meta Platforms is building a consumer version of the AI agent OpenClaw and a new agentic shopping tool, The Information reported on Tuesday.The company is training the OpenClaw-inspired agent, internally called “Hatch,” with the goal of internal testing by the end of June, one of the people said. The aim is for Hatch, the name of which might change once it is launched, to be able to perform

Meta Platforms is making broader organizational changes along with impending mass layoffs to better suit its structure to AI, a top executive told staff on Monday.The owner of Facebook and Instagram plans to detail cuts on Wednesday to about a tenth of its nearly 78,000 employees. As company leaders worked on those plans, many of them “incorporated AI native design principles into their new

Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot may have lost much of its early lead in the AI coding race to rivals like Anthropic and Cursor, but Microsoft thinks it has an advantage over those companies: roughly 100,000 software engineers who work for Microsoft.As we reported Monday, Microsoft leaders think they ...

Meta Platforms has begun notifying thousands of employees that they are being laid off, as it embarks on its latest effort to cut costs and offset the heavy investment in artificial intelligence. Meta had said last month it would lay off about 8,000 people on Wednesday, about 10% of its 78,000 employees.Meta began notifying employees in India, Singapore, Europe, and the US of the layoffs via

Meta Platforms has quietly launched a new app called Forum, part of a new push by the Facebook owner to launch a lot of new apps. The app lets users select topics they’re interested in and customize their feed by choosing which topics they want to see more or less of, according to its Apple App store listing.Those recommendations are based on their account activity and are summarized using

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, AI has created new possibilities and a list of new terms to accompany them. Weerapat W./Getty Images

Meta Platformsplans to place engineers and product managers inside large corporate customers as part of a new unit at the social-media giant to push businesses to use its AI tools and services. In an internal memo, senior executive Naomi Gleit said the new organization, called Enterprise ...

Meta Platformsplans to start testing an AI pendant in the next year as part of an ambitious roadmap for wearable devices aimed at reversing the huge losses in its hardware division. An internal memo describing the roadmap, reviewed by The Information, also lays out plans to significantly expand ...

Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI pendant in the next year as part of an ambitious roadmap for wearable devices aimed at reversing the huge losses in its hardware division.An internal memo describing the roadmap, reviewed by The Information, also lays out plans to significantly expand its selection of AI glasses and to add a business-focused service called “Wearables for Work.”

Meta Platforms is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool after staff raised concerns about the tool, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information. A Meta executive told employees in the memo that the company is updating its Model Capability Initiative, orMCI, launched ...