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The parent company of Facebook rebranded as Meta Platforms in October 2021. Current CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, founded the company in 2004. Meta’s flagship app remains a moneymaker, with robust ad sales revenue, and the company has focused its efforts on its video feature, Reels. Meta is facing headwinds of late with regard to privacy, trust and safety, and payments.

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Artificial Intelligence

Sing the News to Me? The VCs Who Turned Vibe Code Into Whimsical Passion Projects

By Jemima McEvoy · Nov 1, 2025 6:00am PDT · 5 comments
In less than a year, AI-assisted coding has become a fixation within Silicon Valley, which sees the companies building such products as some of the most lucrative startups in tech. While tools like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code can’t transform techno novices into app-building wizards overnight, they do make coding faster—and easier... In less than a year, AI-assisted coding has become a fixation within Silicon Valley, which sees...
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Deep Research

OpenAI Moves Up the Stack: Why Every Software Incumbent is Now a Target

By The Information Staff · Oct 29, 2025 1:24pm PDT
OpenAI is moving beyond its role as a technology partner, transforming its model lead into a multi-front assault on established software giants. This pivot positions the company not just as a supplier, but as a formidable application competitor, aiming to own the entire user workflow in markets like productivity, consulting, and e-commerce. This... OpenAI is moving beyond its role as a technology partner, transforming its model lead into a...
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What the OpenAI Restructuring Means

By Sri Muppidi and Aaron Holmes · Oct 28, 2025 1:54pm PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI on Tuesday completed a yearlong restructuring that will allow it to one day go public, when it could raise tens of billions of dollars to help fund its costly artificial intelligence. The company will continue to be effectively controlled by a nonprofit board of directors, although the restructuring has converted the investments made by... OpenAI on Tuesday completed a yearlong restructuring that will allow it to one day go public,...
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The Big Read

OpenAI Readies Itself for Its Facebook Era

By Kalley Huang, Erin Woo and Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 24, 2025 6:03am PDT · 6 comments
This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her first all-hands meeting as the startup’s new CEO of applications, she acknowledged that she and many others at OpenAI shared the same background: They’d previously worked at Meta Platforms. And then Simo, who’d risen to be head of Facebook over a decade... This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her...
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Creator Economy

Why Facebook Mulled Wiping Friends Lists

By Kalley Huang and Kaya Yurieff · Apr 22, 2025 2:02pm PDT
Trials are great for airing technology executives’ private ruminations, including some of their most out-there strategies. Among the most extraordinary that have so far come to light in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta Platforms is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 for refreshing Facebook: ... Trials are great for airing technology executives’ private ruminations, including some of their...
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Creator Economy

Facebook Tries to Get Creators’ Attention

By Kaya Yurieff · Feb 20, 2025 2:02pm PST
Facebook wants to be cool again—and it plans to revamp itself in large part by leveraging creators, as my colleague Sylvia and I detailed in a story on Thursday. Facebook staffers have been talking to the teams of prominent YouTubers including MrBeast and former NASA engineer Mark Rober to get their feedback on how to make the app better... Facebook wants to be cool again—and it plans to revamp itself in large part by leveraging...