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Meta is in trouble after lack of faith in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision

Meta is reeling a day after reporting its third-quarter earnings. The company formerly known as Facebook was in trouble Thursday after uninspiring numbers and a clear lack of faith in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision sent its stock down by 25%.

Meta was trading around $98, down from $130 on Wednesday, at the time of writing. Other technology stocks are in a similar boat. Many tech valuations have fallen due to a challenging economic climate and a war that has exacerbated geopolitical tensions, but Meta’s fall — and the message it sends about the company’s future — is truly remarkable. Meta’s stock is now worth nearly a quarter of what it was late last summer when it hit an all-time high of around $380.

by The Verge

Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to chief product officer Mike Krieger, Anthropic doesn’t plan to win the AI race by building a mainstream AI assistant. “I hope Claude reaches as many people as possible,” Krieger told me onstage at the HumanX AI conference earlier this week. “But I think, [for] our ambitions, the critical path isn’t through mass-market consumer adoption right now.” Instead,… Source link

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Meta will begin testing its X-style Community Notes starting March 18th. The feature will roll out on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US – but Meta won’t publicly publish the notes to start as it tests the Community Notes writing and rating system. Meta first announced plans to replace its fact-checking program with Community Notes in January, saying it would be “less prone to bias.” So far, around 200,000 potential contributors have signed up for the waitlist. Not everyone will be able to write and rate Community Notes at launch, as… Source link

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An arbitrator has decided in favor of Meta in a case the company brought against Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Meta employee who wrote a memoir published this week detailing alleged claims of misconduct at the company. Macmillan Publishers and its imprint that published the memoir, Flatiron Books, were also named as respondents. The memoir, titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, details alleged claims of sexual harassment, including by current policy chief Joel Kaplan, who was her boss, according to NBC News. In… Source link