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Meta Tells 8,000 Laid-Off Staff the Cuts Pay for $135B AI Capex, Not AI Productivity Gains
Meta's 8,000 May 20 layoffs fund $145B in AI capex, not productivity gains. Zuckerberg reframes the cuts as operating-expense reallocation rather than AI substitution.
SpaceXAI Lost 50+ Researchers Since the February Merger, Mostly to Meta and Thinking Machines
SpaceXAI has lost over 50 researchers since the February merger, gutting its pre-training team and exposing how all-stock absorption undermines frontier AI talent retention.
Qwen 2.5 vs Llama 3.3: The Open-Weight Showdown Nobody Is Talking About
Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 beats Meta's Llama 3.3 on math, multilingual tasks, and structured data — yet gets a fraction of the Western press coverage.
Meta's AI Is Systematically Killing Your Agency
Meta is replacing user choice with algorithmic control at every level—from generative feeds that manufacture content to AI chatbots designed to substitute for human connection. This is not a bug; it is the business model.
Facebook Is Cooked: Inside Meta's Platform Decay
Facebook is experiencing accelerating platform decay driven by AI-generated spam, algorithmic capture, and a growing demographic gap — yet Meta's ad revenue keeps climbing, raising the question: does Mark Zuckerberg actually need to fix it?
Nvidia's Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in AI Computing Power
Meta and Nvidia announced a multi-year strategic partnership in February 2026 that will see Meta deploy Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform across gigawatt-scale data centers, representing one of the largest single commitments of AI computing resources in history.