Meta laid off 600 employees in its Superintelligence Labs division. Its chief AI officer shared a memo addressing the job cuts.

Meta announced job cuts affecting 600 employees across AI research divisions, although the company expects most workers to find new internal roles.

Hundreds of workers at Meta are losing their jobs, despite the company’s massive push into artificial intelligence.

One of the laid-off scientists took to X/Twitter and shared their ordeal. Xianjun Yang stated how their work (as attached in the screenshot) was cited by John Schulman of the Thinking Machine Lab and Nicholas Carlini of Anthropic in their paper “Detecting Adversarial Fine-Tuning With Auditing Agents.” Yang wrote

Meta is launching a new set of parental controls to limit children's direct interactions with its AI character-chatbots in response to concerns about inappropriate engagements with minors.

Sudarshan Kamath, Indian-origin founder of Smallest AI, is offering top talent from Meta’s recent AI layoffs high-paying roles. Base salaries range from $200K to $600K with equity incentives.

As their heads were measured and fitted for custom-made felt cowboy hats, the 100 or so guests assembled in Utah’s scenic Wasatch Mountains in November 2023 had ample reason to feel special. The group of AI executives, venture capitalists, government ...

Instagram is experimenting with skippable ads in its Reels feature, offering users the ability to bypass promotional content mid-scroll. Over the past month, ADWEEK observed three instances of this new format, which includes a countdown timer in the top-right corner of the screen followed by an ad equipped with a “skip” button.