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Meta’s layoffs spark backlash, employees reject ‘performance-based’ claims: “Cruelest company… Zuck doesn’t care about…” | – The Times of India

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Meta’s latest round of layoffs has triggered widespread dissatisfaction among employees, with many publicly challenging the company’s justification for job cuts. While Meta claims the layoffs were based on employee performance, several affected workers insist they had strong track records and met company expectations. The layoffs, which impacted over 3,000 employees, have raised concerns about…

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Facebook parent Meta has ‘Donald Trump warning’ for European Union on WhatsApp and Instagram – The Times of India

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will not hesitate to seek the US President Trump‘s intervention if the European Union unfairly targets the company with its digital regulations, according to Meta‘s global policy director Joel Kaplan.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Kaplan said Meta would alert the U.S. government to any discriminatory…

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Facebook employees used Torrent to download 81.7TB of data to train its LLaMA: Court papers – The Times of India

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Meta, Facebook‘s parent company, faces a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition in training its LLaMA AI model, according to court records revealed by vx-underground on X. First reported by Tom’s Hardware, vx-underground’s post on Twitter claims how court documents from February 5th, 2024, in Kadrey v. Meta show Meta (formerly Facebook)…

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Layoffs start at Meta, what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told employees about ‘4000 job cuts’ – The Times of India

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Facebook parent company Meta has begun notifying employees of a 5% workforce reduction, potentially impacting nearly 4,000 jobs in the US, Europe and Asia, even as it reportedly appears to be bolstering its engineering teams by ‘expediting recruiting’ in key areas.According to a report by Business Insider, Meta is actively recruiting engineers, particularly those specialising…

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China’s DeepSeek ‘divides’ OpenAI: I personally think we have been on the wrong… ChatGPT maker CEO Sam Altman – The Times of India

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a surprising revelation during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session: his company has been excessively secretive about its AI technology. Altman expressed his personal support for publishing OpenAI’s research and acknowledged that the company’s historically closed approach to development has positioned them “on the wrong side of history” regarding open-sourcing.He…

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to employees: We try to be really open and then everything I say leaks. It sucks – The Times of India

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned employees to “buckle up” for an “intense year” during Thursday’s company-wide meeting, emphasizing artificial intelligence developments and addressing recent controversial policy changes.The meeting marked significant changes to Meta’s internal communication format, with the company disabling comment features and hiding question rankings due to concerns about leaks.”We try to be really…

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Why Mark Zuckerberg is praising Elon Musk and Community Notes | World News – The Times of India

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Mark Zuckerberg has recently expressed admiration for Elon Musk’s Community Notes system, acknowledging its effectiveness in tackling misinformation. During a Meta earnings call, Zuckerberg admitted that X’s crowdsourced approach to content moderation has outperformed Meta’s previous reliance on third-party fact-checkers.Despite past disagreements, Zuckerberg and Musk seem to share common ground when it comes to fact-checking….

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Mark Zuckerberg to Donald Trump’s adviser: Sheryl Sandberg ‘brought ‘Wokeism’ to Facebook; new policies aim to … – The Times of India

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accused former COO Sheryl Sandberg for the present “culture” in Facebook in a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller, reported the New York Times. As per the outlet, the tech billionaire was told he has the opportunity to “rebuild America” but on the “terms of…

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Meta to lay off 3,600 employees; have decided to raise the bar, says Mark Zuckerberg – Times of India

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is set to lay off approximately 3,600 employees identified as low performers, according to an internal memo first reported by Bloomberg. CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the move in the memo, describing it as a strategy to “raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers…

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