NEW: Meta won its FTC antitrust trial. The judge found that the company did not violate antitrust laws in its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram. That means Meta WILL NOT be broken up. It was always a long shot for that to happen, but crisis averted.

New: Meta will start using chatbot conversations to target people with advertising. This will start in Dec and there is no way to opt-out People use chatbots for all kinds of very personal things. Soon you may see ads on FB/IG related to those personal things. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Meta's Mark Zuckerberg just debuted a new pair of AI display glasses that work with a neural wristband to enable hands-free messaging. You can see your messages in the periphery of the frame. Story from @markgurman.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tesla's board offered Elon Musk, a man running four other companies at the same time, a $1 TRILLION pay package. He would need to hit several ambitious benchmarks over a ten-year period. But my god... $1,000,000,000,000 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Well this is fun… Elon Musk tried to recruit Mark Zuckerberg to help him buy OpenAI (Zuck did not participate) … w/ @rachelmetz.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Meta is restructuring its AI teams again after a big hiring spree. The org now has four distinct teams, all rolling up to Alexandr Wang (formerly Scale AI). This is according to an internal memo sent by Wang this morning... via @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I don't understand how this can *ever* make it into a policy document as acceptable chatbot behavior. Pretty inexcusable. www.reuters.com/investigates...

New: Former Twitter CEO @para.ga is moving past the Elon Musk drama & started an AI company. “I don’t think Twitter defines me,” he told us in an interview. “If I do a good job, I’m hoping this company will define me.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (gift link w/ @shiringhaffary.bsky.social)

What happens when Mark Zuckerberg moves into the neighborhood? Great read about the Facebook founder's years-long effort to build a private compound in Palo Alto www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

New: Meta found some business partners for its major Louisiana data center project

Not the pivot I was expecting.... Linda Yaccarino has a new job: Running eMed, "a telehealth company that offers access to weight-loss drugs" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Zuckerberg has picked a chief scientist for Meta's new superintelligence unit: Shengjia Zhao, who joined Meta from OpenAI in June. He was part of the team behind the original version of OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What could go wrong?

What's it like to cover Elon Musk? I spoke to my good friend and tremendous reporter @teddyschleifer.bsky.social for our Elon Inc. podcast about how he's covering the world's richest man Teddy's covers Musk as closely as anyone - great perspective! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

New: Meta has nabbed two more top AI researchers from Apple for its Superintelligence Labs group. The hiring spree continues... w/ @markgurman.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Meta's board went to trial Wednesday over shareholder claims that they overpaid the FTC several years ago to personally protect Mark Zuckerberg from being held responsible for Cambridge Analytica This morning the two sides reached a settlement. Zuck was set to testify next week

Update: Meta has closed its PlayAI deal, and the "entire" PlayAI team is planning to join the company next week, according to an internal memo. The group will report up to Johan Schalkwyk, who just joined Meta from Sesame a few weeks ago.

I've been wondering for a while now whether X might just slowly fade away from advertising. Its main value seems to be in providing training data to xAI anyways? Linda Yaccarino's departure seems to signal that X is becoming a very different kind of business... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Linda Yaccarino is out as the CEO of X.

A @markgurman.bsky.social scoop: Meta has hired Apple’s top AI models exec for its new superintelligence group. Ruoming Pang is joining Meta, and so is OpenAI’s Yuanzhi Li and Anthropic’s Anton Bakhtin www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Mark Zuckerberg just announced a major AI reorg internally at Meta. Everything now falls under a new group called "Meta Superintelligence Labs, which will be run by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman. Zuckerberg also announced 11 new hires, including several from OpenAI and Google's DeepMind

New: Meta is in advanced talks to make another AI acquisition, this one a small voice AI startup called PlayAI. There is a LOT happening with Meta AI these days... w/ @margimurphy.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New Elon Inc, coving the big(?) robotaxi launch(?) and “oh yeah X has an advertising business” with @karacarlson.bsky.social and @kurtwagner.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

not fully sure what to make of this if I'm being honest but find it interesting: House Bans WhatsApp From Staffers’ Government-Issued Devices www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Full story here w/ @shiringhaffary.bsky.social @rachelmetz.bsky.social (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Meta's Scale AI investment is done. * $14.3B invested * $29B valuation * Scale CEO Alexandr Wang is joining Meta in an senior AI role

"several people are typing" this has been the last 4 days in a nutshell

NEW on Zuckerberg's new "superintelligence" team: Meta has hired folks from Google's DeepMind and AI voice startup Sesame. It still plans to hire a chief scientist. Some multi-year comp packages have been 8-figures... story w/ @shiringhaffary.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop from overnight for those who aren't checking Bluesky in their sleep! 👇

NEW: Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is personally recruiting AI experts & scientists for a new "superintelligence" team focused on AGI. Aim is to hire a group ~50 people Zuck got very hands on after the Llama 4 launch, which was a disappointment internally, sources say www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW from overnight: Meta in talks to invest as much as $10B into Scale AI. Would be the company’s largest external AI investment by far. Just more evidence of Zuck’s all-in mindset on AI right now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m having flashbacks

It’s happening…

For our reporting on Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to court President Donald Trump, we used data from @jacks.grndcntrl.net's @zuckjet.grndcntrl.net to produce this telling graphic... ✈️ Full story w/ @kurtwagner.bsky.social for @bloomberg.com, here: t.co/81wpCktYrX

New from @nytimes.com: Elon Musk was heavily using drugs last year on the campaign trail with Trump. Long speculated, now officially reported. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

New via @ashleevance.bsky.social's Core Memory: Meta is partnering with Palmer Luckey's Anduril to make technology for the US military, including a "sci-fi style military helmet" dubbed "Eagle Eye" that will have AR and VR capabilities Here's the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVXP...

Cancer drugs cost more than ever, but some blockbuster treatments have never proven they keep patients alive longer

This is the second week in a row a company has announced a partnership deal with xAI that Musk/X then later denied. Last week was Kalshi, this week Telegram. What is happening here?

After 6+ weeks, Meta's antitrust trial is officially over. That means the company's future is now in the hands of a federal judge. Lots of procedural things still, so I don't expect a ruling until end of 2025 (if not 2026) but the stakes are hard to overstate www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My colleagues @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social and @kurtwagner.bsky.social spoke to more than 50 people for this in-depth look at efforts by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to woo Trump.

🚨 New Businessweek Feature 🚨 What is behind Mark Zuckerberg's rightward swing toward President Trump? I'd wager it's less about personal politics, and more about a finely tuned sense of self-preservation... w/ @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

President Biden called Mark Zuckerberg "Little Twerp" and "Fuckerberg” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social @kurtwagner.bsky.social

An internal Meta report from 2019 found "that minors made up 27% of the follow recommendations that the social media app surfaced to 'groomers'" 😳 New data coming out today at the Meta-FTC antitrust trial... gift link w/ @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

artists 🤝 journalists

Elon Musk's net worth has taken a nosedive during his first 100 days in government. He's had some wins - the proposed administrator to NASA, a Musk supporter, being a major one - but the damage he's done to both his brand and Tesla's is hard to quantify (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There are a lot of news stories taking stock of Trump's first 100 days in office. @kurtwagner.bsky.social and I decided to take a look at *Elon Musk's* first 100 days www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is quite a chart on what happened to Musk's fortune during his DOGE days www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... via @danahull.bsky.social @kurtwagner.bsky.social

Some really fascinating testimony this morning from IG cofounder Kevin Systrom in the Meta-FTC antitrust trial. He accused Meta of starving the app of resources, claiming that CEO Mark Zuckerberg views IG as a "threat" to Facebook (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Back in DC today for week two of the Meta-FTC antitrust trial. On the stand this morning: Kevin Systrom, IG Co-Founder, who was just sworn in and is expected to be questioned all day

New/Fun: Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram into its own standalone company back in 2018 He thought IG was leaching off Facebook. He also speculated that Meta (then Facebook) might be broken up anyways & should perhaps get ahead of the issue www.bloomberg.com/news/article...