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Meta is once again undergoing a major reorganization within its artificial intelligence department. Approximately 600 jobs will be lost in the company's AI division. The cuts will affect the FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) research group, the product-focused AI teams, and the infrastructure department, among others. At the same time, Meta will continue hiring staff for its new research department, the TBD Lab, which focuses on developing super-intelligent AI systems.

Meta established MSLin June to spearhead CEO Mark Zuckerberg's push toward what he has called "personal superintelligence," a term he uses to describe AI systems that could eventually surpass human capabilities.The division has quickly become one of Meta's most important and expensive bets. In the last few months, Meta has spent hundreds of millions of dollars hiring engineers and researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Apple, and other companies.

Meta, which owns and operates Facebook and Instagram-as well as Threads, Messenger, and WhatsApp-announced on Wednesday it is laying off about 600 employees from its new AI "superintelligence" research lab.

By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact," Wang writes in a memo seen by Axios. The layoffs will also affect roles within its AI product and infrastructure teams, though Meta will allow impacted employees to apply for other roles within the company, Axios reports.

Rather than a custom Arm CPU, like the ones that Microsoft, AWS, and Google designed, Meta tells us the partnership will focus on optimizing the Arm-based silicon that it's already deploying. Like most hyperscalers and cloud providers, Meta is rolling out large quantities of Arm Neoverse cores across its AI datacenters; they just happen to be part of Nvidia's GB200 or GB300 NVL72 rack systems. Each of these racks is equipped with 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 of Nvidia's Neoverse-V2-based Grace CPUs.

Facebook has taken down a "large group page that was being used to dox and target [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents in Chicago," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X Tuesday.

"Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago," Bondi wrote in an X post. Bondi alleged that a "wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs." She added that the DOJ "will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement."

Meta has removed a Facebook page dedicated to tracking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action in Chicago after the Justice Department got involved. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X Tuesday that Facebook had taken down an unnamed "large group page that was being used to dox and target" ICE agents after outreach from the DOJ. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the group, which he did not identify, "was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm." Its removal follows Apple and Google blocking ICE-tracking apps, also following government demands.

Meta is facing a court fight over documents and testimony in a landmark child safety case in New Mexico. In two recent motions, the New Mexico Attorney General's office alleged that Meta has refused to fully produce internal records about its AI chatbots, which reportedly engaged children and teenagers in sexualized conversations. The state also said Meta declined to consent to a subpoena for former company researcher Jason Sattizahn, who claimed that the company's legal team interfered with internal research on youth safety.

The glasses stole the show: When Meta held its annual Connect developer conference last month, the company's new Ray-Ban Display glasses got a lot of attention. Without new hardware to announce, VR took a bit of a backseat. Sure, there was James Cameron, who is helping the company bring 3D movies, shows, and sports events to Quest headsets. But what about that whole metaverse thing? How's that going? To get an update on Meta's efforts to make VR social, I talked to the company's metaverse VP, Vishal Shah.

Meta is ramping up the pressure for its employees to use AI. The Facebook parent company is tracking how extensively its teams are using AI through dashboards it rolled out earlier this year, and it created a game to boost employees' usage, Business Insider has learned. Expectations around AI usage vary by teams. Staff in some departments are encouraged to play with AI tools, while others are being pushed to meet specific targets, according to four current employees.

announced an expanded agreement with OpenAI to power the training of its most advanced next-generation models, reinforcing its position as the essential cloud platform for the most demanding AI workloads. In March 2025, CoreWeave announced an initial agreement with OpenAI with a contract value up to $11.9 billion, followed by an expanded agreement worth up to $4 billion in May 2025. The agreement announced today brings the total contract value with OpenAI up to approximately $22.4 billion.

Earlier today, it was revealed that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, would be rolling out a scheme which allowed users to purchase a monthly subscription to use its social media platforms without the inclusion of personalised adverts. The move follows increasing concerns about the ethics of targeted advertising, which is where personalised adverts are shown to people based on websites they visit - allowing people the option to opt out of having their data used for marketing purposes.

An internal Meta document obtained by Business Insider reveals the latest guidelines it uses to train and evaluate its AI chatbot on one of the most sensitive online issues: child sexual exploitation. The guidelines, used by contractors to test how Meta's chatbot responds to child sexual exploitation, violent crimes, and other high-risk categories, set out what type of content is permitted or deemed "egregiously unacceptable."

The subscription will cost £2.99 per month on web browsers or £3.99 on iOS and Android devices for the first account, with discounted rates available for each additional account linked through Meta's account centre. The company explained that the differential pricing reflects platform fees charged by Apple and Google. Personal data will not be used for ad targeting if a user subscribes, with the company reiterating that it does not sell personal data to advertisers.

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