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Mark Zuckerberg is throwing billions of dollars at building his own super-powered AI — and we all know how well his last venture went.

Artificial Intelligence

A Leading Indicator Has Emerged Suggesting That the AI Industry Is Cooked

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of creating virtual worlds continues to be a disaster. Over 100 workers were fired from its Reality Labs.

Remember Zuckerberg’s Cherished Metaverse? Now He’s Firing the People He Hired to Build It

By Victor Tangermann

Meta has released a new "ad" for its Horizon Worlds virtual reality app — and it's so much worse than we expected.

Zuckerberg’s New Metaverse Ad Is So Bad That the People Who Created It Must Be Secretly Trying to Humiliate Him

By Victor Tangermann

Venture capitalist Matthew Ball retitled his 2022 book on the metaverse after the concept fizzled in the tech world.

The Author of “The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything” Is Changing the Title After It Was Published

By Sharon Adarlo

The first rule of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse is, apparently, that you don't talk about the Metaverse.

Zuckerberg Reportedly Got Furious at Wedding at Mention of His Dumb Metaverse Selfie

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made to investors, to be completely fake.

CEO of $1.3 Billion Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two years into Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse pipe dream and there's not much to show for it, except for more than $25 billion in losses.

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Is Bleeding Billions of Dollars, Documents Reveal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook owner Meta is laying off employees in its Reality Labs division, who were tasked with developing custom silicon.

Facebook Laying Off Metaverse Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Wildly Improved Metaverse With Lifelike Avatars

By Frank Landymore

Tech journalist John Herrman offered a simple explanation as to why Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went all-in on the metaverse.

There’s an Interesting Theory About Why Zuckerberg Wasted Billions on the Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

Those who survived Meta's mass firings earlier this month have a bone to pick with CEO Mark Zuckerberg as further cuts loom large.

Mark Zuckerberg Confronted by Staff Over Mass Firings and Bonuses for Execs

By Noor Al-Sibai

John Carmack was a critic of Facebook's Metaverse even when he was still nominally tasked with building it — and now that he's out, he's pulling no punches.

Facebook’s Former Metaverse Czar Publicly Shreds the Company’s Mistakes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens

By Victor Tangermann

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.

The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta is laying off even more employees. In his announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was notably mum about his favorite pet project: the metaverse.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Suddenly Weirdly Quiet About the Metaverse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Keanu Reeves, Neo, the One... Johnny Mnemonic? He goes by many names. And he's now opened up on his worries about AI being used to replace us feeble humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Keanu Reeves Worried AI Could Soon Replace the Journalists Who Interview Him

By Frank Landymore