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@thealexchen@social.thepixelspulse.com · 12h ago
New reports reveal Meta's ad systems are critically failing to curb AI-powered get-rich-quick scams, with internal documents showing the company actively hid fraudulent ads from regulators. While Meta claims efficiency, its optimization for ad revenue appears to enable widespread fraud, eroding user trust and drawing demands for action from authorities like those in Japan. The article argues for universal… https://www.tpp.blog/704gyl3 #technology #meta #aiscams 🤖 This post was AI-generated.
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 12h ago
Observer | Mark Zuckerberg Signals Leaner Future While Meta Doubles Down on A.I. Spending by Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a forthcoming 10 percent workforce reduction—about 8,000 jobs—while the company redirects spending toward artificial‑intelligence initiatives. In the first‑quarter earnings call he said smaller, faster teams can achieve in a week what once required dozens of months, and that Meta will “streamline our teams” as it pursues artificial general intelligence. Meta raised its 2026 capital‑expenditure outlook to $125‑$145 billion to fund its Meta Superintelligence Labs and aggressive AI‑talent hiring, driving a 35 percent jump in quarterly expenses. Despite beating revenue expectations—$56.3 billion, up 33 percent year over year—shares fell as daily‑active‑user growth missed forecasts. The cuts mirror a broader tech‑industry shift, with companies such as Block, Snap and Microsoft also trimming staff to prioritize AI‑driven efficiencies. Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/mark-zuckerberg-meta-earnings-cuts-ai/ #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #JackDorsey #Block #Snap #Microsoft #SusanLi #AmyHood #artificialintelligence #business #earnings #evanspiegel #layoffs #technology
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 15h ago
US Top News and Analysis | Amazon posted a blowout quarter. Why the Street says this is only the start of the stock's strong run AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Amazon.com reported a strong first‑quarter earnings beat, posting $181.52 billion in revenue—above the $177.3 billion forecast—and earnings of $2.78 per share versus the $1.64 consensus estimate. AWS accelerated 28% quarter‑over‑quarter, driven by AI‑related workload shifts and its Trainium chip, while the company lifted its second‑quarter revenue outlook to $194‑199 billion. Although the stock initially rose more than 4% before retracing, analysts were upbeat: Barclays raised its target to $330, Citi to $285, Morgan Stanley to $330, Bernstein to $315, BofA to $310, Mizuho to $325, and Canaccord to $330, citing AWS’s AI‑driven growth, a robust retail business, expanding margins, and a strong backlog that position Amazon as a leading AI and e‑commerce player. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/amazon-had-a-blowout-quarter-the-street-sees-start-of-a-strong-run.html #Amazon #AWS #Barclays #Citi #MorganStanley #Microsoft #Alphabet #Meta #OpenAI #Mizuho #
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 20h ago
Sweden Herald - Latest Sweden News | Meta does not live up to expectations, stock falls in after-hours trading by Sweden Herald AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta’s latest quarterly report disappointed analysts, as its shares plunged nearly 7 % in after‑hours trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company posted earnings of $7.32 per share on revenue of $56.3 billion, slightly above the $55.45 billion analysts had forecast, but investment costs came in far lower at $19.84 billion versus the expected $27.57 billion. Daily active users rose 4 % to 3.56 billion, still falling short of the 3.62 billion expected. The combination of mixed financial results and weaker‑than‑anticipated user growth led to a sharp drop in Meta’s stock price. Read more: https://swedenherald.com/article/meta-does-not-live-up-to-expectations-stock-falls-in-afterhours-trading #Meta #LSEG #NewYork #businessnews
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 21h ago
US Top News and Analysis | Meta looks to report fastest revenue growth since 2021 AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta reported Q1 revenue of $56.31 billion, beating estimates, and adjusted earnings of $7.31 per share versus the $6.79 forecast, while daily active people rose 4% year‑over‑year to 3.56 billion but fell more than 5% from the previous quarter, a miss attributed to internet disruptions in Iran and a WhatsApp restriction in Russia. Capital expenditures came in at $19.84 billion, well below the $27.57 billion expected, yet the company raised its full‑year capex outlook to $125‑$145 billion. Net income surged to $26.8 billion, bolstered by an $8.03 billion tax benefit, and headcount grew 1% to 77,986 despite an announced 10% workforce reduction. Meta highlighted its AI push, debuting the Muse Spark foundation model, and projected Q2 revenue of $58‑$61 billion, roughly in line with expectations. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/meta-q1-earnings-report-2026.html #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #WhatsApp #RealityLabs #US
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 22h ago
News Headlines | Fears for 150 Irish-based jobs at Oracle AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The Irish Department of Enterprise has received a collective redundancy notification from Oracle indicating that roughly 150 Irish‑based roles are at risk, though the exact figure was not confirmed. The planned cuts are part of a broader global downsizing as Oracle ramps up spending on artificial‑intelligence to compete with rivals such as Alphabet and Amazon, and the company has not responded to requests for comment. The article also mentions similar redundancy notifications for other tech firms—outsourcing company Covalen and Meta—but the immediate focus is the potential loss of about 150 jobs at Oracle’s Irish operation. Read more: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0429/1570890-fears-for-150-irish-based-jobs-at-oracle/ #Oracle #Alphabet #Amazon #Meta #IrishGovernment
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 23h ago
US Top News and Analysis | Traders brace for $800 billion in earnings-related stock movement AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Traders are bracing for a dramatic earnings night as four members of the “Magnificent Seven”—Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Meta and Microsoft—prepare to report results, prompting options markets to price in more than $800 billion of potential market‑cap movement. Implied moves for three of the four stocks exceed their four‑quarter averages, with bullish call buying outpacing puts across all names. Notably, huge call orders have been placed on Amazon and Microsoft, including multi‑hundred‑thousand‑dollar purchases of in‑the‑money strikes, suggesting investors expect upside surprises despite mixed historical performance relative to options pricing. The overall sentiment remains bullish, with demand for upside exposure outstripping expectations of sell‑offs. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/traders-brace-for-800-billion-in-earnings-related-stock-movement.html #Alphabet #Amazon #Meta #Microsoft
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 1d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Five 'Magnificent Seven' names will post earnings before the week ends. Levels to watch AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article reviews the upcoming earnings reports of the five “Magnificent Seven” megacap growth stocks and examines what their chart patterns suggest for the near‑term market. It notes that the MAGS ETF, which tracks these large‑cap growth names, has rebounded sharply from March lows but has yet to break new highs, hovering near its 200‑day moving average and showing a potential inverse head‑and‑shoulders formation. Relative strength is evident as MAGS has outperformed the S&P 500 in recent weeks, and historic pullbacks have typically been followed by multi‑month rallies that restored the ETF to prior relative highs. Among the individual components, Google (GOOGL) and Nvidia (NVDA) have outperformed the ETF dramatically over the past year, while the other holdings have lagged, dragging overall performance. The piece concludes that a positive earnings response from the lagging stocks, combined with continued strength from the leaders, could revitalize the broader large‑cap growth complex, though investors should watch for overbought conditions and potential price ceilings. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/five-magnificent-seven-names-will-post-earnings-before-the-week-ends-levels-to-watch.html #MagnificentSeven #MAGSETF #SP500 #Google #Nvidia #Amazon #Apple #Meta #Microsoft #NVDA #
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 2d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Meta shares look 'iffy' into earnings. How to trade it AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta is approaching its earnings report with solid fundamentals—ad‑pricing improvements and sharper targeting are driving about 30% year‑over‑year top‑line growth—yet its technical picture looks shaky, as the stock sits near its 150‑day moving average and other indicators suggest a precarious position. The options market is pricing a roughly 7.5% move by week‑end, and recent heavy buying of short‑dated calls (e.g., June 620 strikes and May 675 strikes) reflects traders’ appetite for upside while limiting downside. Rather than buying the stock or outright calls, the analyst recommends a call‑spread risk reversal: sell 625‑strike puts and 750‑strike calls to fund the purchase of 680‑strike at‑the‑money calls. This structure lowers the breakeven point, caps upside at about 8%, and improves the win rate versus pure stock or call purchases; historically such a spread would have yielded around 1.6% over the two‑week earnings window (about 29% annualized), offering a better risk‑reward balance. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/meta-shares-look-iffy-into-earnings-how-to-trade-it.html #Meta
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 2d ago
qwant news | Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to power AI data centres from space in 'transformative' move AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta is partnering with Overview Energy to launch 1,000 solar‑panel‑equipped satellites that will collect sunlight in space and beam the converted energy back to Earth as low‑intensity infrared, providing up to one gigawatt—enough to power roughly 750,000 homes—for its AI data centres. The plan, announced by Meta’s Vice President of Energy Nat Sahlstrom, aims to supply clean, reliable power without stressing U.S. electricity grids, with a demonstration satellite slated for launch in 2028 and commercial power generation beginning around 2030. Similar space‑solar initiatives are also being pursued by SpaceX, Blue Origin and Google. Read more: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-power-ai-37081736 #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #OverviewEnergy #MarcBerte #NatSahlstrom #SpaceX #BlueOrigin #Google
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 2d ago
News Headlines | Covalen informs Government of threatened job cuts AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Outsourcing firm Covalen, which supplies content‑moderation and AI‑training services to Meta, has alerted the Department of Enterprise that up to 720 jobs in its Dublin operation could be lost, prompting a formal collective redundancy consultation. The company says it is supporting affected teams and following legal obligations, while the Communications Workers’ Union says staff are shocked and angry. This follows a previous redundancy round in late 2025 that saw about 300 positions eliminated after 400 were threatened, and a January strike by CWU‑member employees over pay and union recognition. The potential cuts come as Meta itself announced a global reduction of roughly 8,000 jobs and plans to use advanced AI that may lessen reliance on third‑party moderators, raising uncertainty for Covalen’s roughly 1,800‑person Irish workforce. Read more: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0428/1570654-covalen-job-cuts/ #Covalen #Meta #CWU
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 3d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Top AI researchers are increasingly departing major tech firms such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI to launch their own startups, securing massive funding in just a few months. Recent examples include former DeepMind researcher David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence, which closed a record $1.1 billion seed round, Tim Rocktäschel’s Recursive Superintelligence seeking up to $1 billion, and Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raising $1 billion after he left Meta. Similar spin‑outs like Periodic Labs, Recursive Intelligence, and Humans& have each raised hundreds of millions, often recruiting talent from their founders’ former employers. Venture capitalists are betting heavily on these nimble ventures, having funneled $18.8 billion into AI startups founded since early 2025—a pace set to surpass the $27.9 billion invested in 2024. Investors cite the founders’ insider knowledge of scalable AI systems and the gaps left by large labs focusing narrowly on immediate commercial gains, opening opportunities in new model architectures, interpretability, vertical AI applications, and reinforcement‑learning approaches that larger labs are deprioritizing. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/meta-google-big-tech-staff-ai-labs-investors.html #Meta #OpenAI #DeepMind #DavidSilver #TimRocktäschel #YannLeCun #EliseStern
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 3d ago
All Content from Business Insider | Cutting employee benefits is no longer off the table by Steve Russolillo AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Cutting employee benefits is becoming increasingly common as companies prioritize efficiency and measurable output over loyalty. Recent reports reveal Deloitte plans to trim core perks such as parental leave, paid time off, pensions and IVF funding for support‑role staff, while Zoom is reducing its paid parental leave from 22‑24 weeks to 18 weeks for birthing parents and from 16 to 10 weeks for non‑birthing parents. The trend extends to larger tech firms: Meta announced a 10% workforce reduction and the elimination of 6,000 open roles, prompting angry employee reactions, and Microsoft is offering one‑time buyouts to long‑serving U.S. employees as part of its cost‑cutting strategy. These moves signal that even once‑sacrosanct benefits are now vulnerable, as firms across industries move into “efficiency mode,” making job cuts and benefit reductions the new norm. Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/bi-today-sunday-newsletter-cutting-employee-benefits-2026-4 #Deloitte #Zoom #Meta #Microsoft #careers
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · 3d ago

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@FediPact@cyberpunk.lol · Jan 08, 2025
i've decided i'm gonna get even sillier with the fedipact account now i mean it was already pretty silly before. like posting nudes with "fedipact" written across my tits and boosting them on here levels of silly but i mean EVEN SILLIER as in... lyric and music posting mainly i guess funny how that's a step up for me lol #FediPact #meta #threads
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@FediPact@cyberpunk.lol · Jan 08, 2025
but yeah fuck megacorps fuck professionalism fuck being presentable it wouldn't be representative of the portion of the fediverse we're trying to save if it wasn't awesome as fuck and flying in the face of all that #FediPact #meta #threads
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@FediPact@cyberpunk.lol · Jan 08, 2025
why do you think i made the fedipact website so damn pretty-looking and wildly unprofessional? because this is fedi, the cool side of fedi, not goddamn linkedin #FediPact #meta #threads
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@TheMorpheus@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
Neues Video: Die DMs sind offen: Ciao Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung #technews #meta #instagram https://youtu.be/JAF5f-Q2gGY #short
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 6d ago
US Top News and Analysis | Amazon custom chips get a boost from Meta, giving the cloud giant another path to win in AI AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Amazon’s shares jumped nearly 3 percent after Meta announced a multi‑year deal to run its AI workloads on Amazon Web Services’ Graviton CPUs, making Meta a top‑five Graviton customer and underscoring AWS’s growing role in AI infrastructure. The partnership highlights Amazon’s broader chip strategy—offering cost‑efficient Graviton processors for “always‑on” reasoning tasks and Trainium accelerators for AI model training—as a complement to Nvidia’s GPUs and a way for cloud customers like Meta to lower compute expenses. Jim Cramer praised the move, noting that Amazon’s chip revenue now exceeds $20 billion and is growing at triple‑digit rates, and he maintains a bullish outlook on both Amazon and Meta ahead of their upcoming earnings reports. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/amazon-custom-chips-get-a-boost-from-meta-giving-the-cloud-giant-another-path-to-win-in-ai.html #Amazon #Meta #AWS #Graviton #JimCramer AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai · Apr 23, 2026
#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence. The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg. The layoffs will go into effect on May 20. #jobs #labor #AIisComingForYourJobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
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