Meta Platforms has hired Apple artificial intelligence researchers Mark Lee and Tom Gunter for its Superintelligence Labs team, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, as it intensifies its pursuit for top AI talent.

Game of Kings. Hi everyone. Thanks to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the price to compete in the AI arms race has just gone up this week. Way up.

Meta Platforms is shifting its focus and riding a powerful, bullish trend. Investors should consider the wide range of Meta stock price targets and formulate a strategy for all possible outcomes.

By Leo Marchandon and Noemie Naudin (Reuters) -French advertising firm Publicis on Thursday raised its full-year organic growth forecast following stronger-than-expected second-quarter results, as CEO Arthur Sadoun dismissed concerns over Meta's AI-powered ad creation system.

The trial against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other former and current leaders, over Facebook privacy violations, has officially begun.

Scale is cutting 200 full-time staffers, or 14% of the workforce, and around 500 contractors, spokesperson Natalia Montalvo told SFGATE on Wednesday, confirming a report from Bloomberg. Employees learned that they were going to be laid off before a morning memo from Scale’s CEO, Jason Droege, delivered the news to the wider staff.

The move is a bid to catch up with rivals such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic after the poor performance of the Facebook parent's Llama 4 model.

Zuckerberg has pushed back against reports of compensation packages being the primary reason for top AI researchers joining the tech giant.