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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the face of it, Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in its history. A series of over 50 news stories have laid out Facebook’s utter failure to police its own platform and protect its users, and highlighted just how much the […]

On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg hosted a 75-minute video introducing “Meta,” Facebook’s new parent-company name, and the concept of the “Metaverse,” which Motherboard described as a “delusional fever dream cribbed most obviously from dystopian science fiction and misleading or outright fabricated virtual-reality product pitches from the last decade.” There is one question about the Metaverse that keeps bugging […]

When Facebook bought Oculus and its much-hyped Rift headset for $2 billion way back in 2014, it wasn’t clear exactly what the social media company had in mind for the resurgent frontier of virtual reality. But to anyone familiar with the company’s countless scandals and insatiable appetite for personal data, it wasn’t hard to guess. […]

lon Musk tends to use social media platform X as his personal platform to express himself, so much so that critics tend to allege that the CEO is no longer serious about his numerous companies. As per Musk, he is still very much in wartime CEO mode, despite all the jokes and fun posts about […]

Elon Musk has set his sights on Microsoft with a new company called “Macrohard,” a software venture tied to his AI startup, xAI. Musk described the project as a “purely AI software company” that’s designed to generate hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents that could one day simulate products from companies like Microsoft […]