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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta’s monorepo and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

Gergély Orosz / The pragmatic engineer: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three…

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Reality Labs lost more than $80 billion, but it still makes all of Meta’s hardware and reflects Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to run a company without Google or Apple as intermediaries (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

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Oracle is selling $25 billion in bonds to help fund its AI development, in what is expected to be the largest high-quality U.S. offering since Meta’s $30 billion bond sale last year (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 2, 2026

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US AI startup Arcee launches Trinity Large, a 400B open-weight model that it says compares to Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 29, 2026

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Meta’s VR layoffs could help the industry in the long run as the roles most affected focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (Palmer Luckey/@palmerluckey)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 19, 2026

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Meta and Garmin show first demonstration of using Meta’s wrist neural band inside a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin’s Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 6, 2026

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Internal documents reveal Meta’s tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make fraudulent ads “untraceable” for regulators and others (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 31, 2025

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How Manus distanced himself from his Chinese roots to court American investors; Source Says Meta’s $2.5 Billion Deal Includes $500 Million Retention Pool For Manus Employees (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 31, 2025

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A look at Meta’s Hyperion 2GW data center in Louisiana, the first phase of which will open in 2028; analysis shows GPU sales tax breaks could total more than $3.3 billion (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 20, 2025

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A profile of Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, who reportedly left after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and supports global models instead (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 15, 2025

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ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at next summit – Radio Free Asia

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

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New York pied-à-terre tax sparks legal fight over values

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Nike cuts 1,400 jobs in second round of layoffs this year

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JPMorgan and other banks have struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made to build data centers leased from Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin (Wall Street Journal)

French forecast office refers suspicion of tampering with weather sensors at Paris airport to police after detecting unusual values alongside Polymarket betting (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg)

Meta announces deal to use “tens of millions” of Amazon’s Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid Nvidia chip shortage (Ina Fried/Axios)

Norway plans to ban children from using social media until age 16; government says it will present bill to parliament by end of 2026 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Browsing: Metas

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta’s monorepo and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

Reality Labs lost more than $80 billion, but it still makes all of Meta’s hardware and reflects Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to run a company without Google or Apple as intermediaries (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

Oracle is selling $25 billion in bonds to help fund its AI development, in what is expected to be the largest high-quality U.S. offering since Meta’s $30 billion bond sale last year (Bloomberg)

US AI startup Arcee launches Trinity Large, a 400B open-weight model that it says compares to Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Meta’s VR layoffs could help the industry in the long run as the roles most affected focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (Palmer Luckey/@palmerluckey)

Meta and Garmin show first demonstration of using Meta’s wrist neural band inside a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin’s Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Internal documents reveal Meta’s tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make fraudulent ads “untraceable” for regulators and others (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

How Manus distanced himself from his Chinese roots to court American investors; Source Says Meta’s $2.5 Billion Deal Includes $500 Million Retention Pool For Manus Employees (Wall Street Journal)

A look at Meta’s Hyperion 2GW data center in Louisiana, the first phase of which will open in 2028; analysis shows GPU sales tax breaks could total more than $3.3 billion (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

A profile of Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, who reportedly left after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and supports global models instead (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)