Yann LeCun, who helped launch Facebook’s artificial intelligence research initiative, is stepping aside from overseeing the company’s day-to-day AI efforts but will remain at the company. IBM veteran Jérôme Pesenti will replace LeCun and will also oversee Facebook’s effort to integrate AI into its products. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who recruited LeCun, has argued that AI is a key technology for the company and the world. Yann LeCun, one of the best-known names in artificial intelligence, is stepping aside from his role overseeing the day-to-day operations of Facebook’s AI research team. LeCun will stay on with Facebook as its chief AI scientist, where he will be in charge of the general direction of the company’s artificial intelligence research. The social networking company will replace LeCun with Jérôme Pesenti, an IBM veteran and former CEO of AI startup … [Read more...] about Facebook gets a new AI boss as it reorganizes to tackle Mark Zuckerberg’s big mission
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One specific line from Mark Zuckerberg’s big Facebook post may be spooking investors
Facebook made a huge change on Thursday, altering how the service’s news feed works. The news feed – the main page of Facebook – now prioritizes posts from people you know that spark engagement and conversation over posts from brands and publications. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expects the change could result in users spending less time on Facebook. That line could worry investors, and Facebook stock was down 4% Friday morning. Facebook just made a huge change, and investors are spooked. As of Friday morning, Facebook stock is down over 4%. There may be a specific reason for that – CEO Mark Zuckerberg just said that the change its news feed will likely result in Facebook users spending less time using Facebook. “By making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down,” Zuck wrote in a Facebook … [Read more...] about One specific line from Mark Zuckerberg’s big Facebook post may be spooking investors
Facebook’s biggest change in years is due to Mark Zuckerberg having kids
Facebook made a huge change to how its news feed works, surfacing posts from friends more prominently than posts from brands and publishers. The change was inspired by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg having children. “It’s important to me that when Max and August grow up that they feel like what their father built was good for the world,” Zuckerberg told The New York Times. The biggest change in years to Facebook’s main interface – its news feed – is a direct result of Facebook’s CEO having kids and rethinking what he wants his legacy to be. “It’s important to me that when Max and August grow up that they feel like what their father built was good for the world,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday. Facebook’s 2 billion users, as of Thursday, now see status updates from friends and family more … [Read more...] about Facebook’s biggest change in years is due to Mark Zuckerberg having kids
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is changing its news feed so it’s actually ‘good for people’
Facebook plans to change how its news feed works, playing up status updates from friends and family. On the flip side, it will deemphasize news articles and anything published by brands. Facebook is trying to foster “meaningful interaction” and make Facebook more of a force for good, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Facebook is coming off of a tough year, where it had to battle fake news and reports that Russian-linked groups attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election via ads on its service. In the wake of criticism about how its news feed can be manipulated and is having a negative effect on users, Facebook is making some big changes to its flagship feature. The company plans to give more prominence to status updates and photos shared by users’ friends and family while at the same time playing down news articles or anything published by brands, company official said. … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is changing its news feed so it’s actually ‘good for people’
Ginni Rometty, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech CEOs warn of ‘significant costs’ and ‘disruptions’ if Congress doesn’t save the Dreamers by January 19
Over the past couple of days, it’s been hard to tell how much progress has actually been made towards solving the DACA situation. But business leaders have a message for Congress: Pass a law to save DACA Dreamers by January 18 or you will be causing US companies a lot of disruption and expense. Over 100 of them, mostly from the tech sector, sent an open letter urging Congress to act and save them from “disruption” and “significant costs.” More than 100 business leaders signed a letter to the US Congress on Wednesday insisting that lawmakers promptly pass a law to protect Dreamers. The letter was signed by a who’s who of tech leaders including IBM CEO Ginni Rometty – who has been fervently championing this cause; Apple CEO Tim Cook; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos; and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. A few from outside of tech also signed the letter such as … [Read more...] about Ginni Rometty, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech CEOs warn of ‘significant costs’ and ‘disruptions’ if Congress doesn’t save the Dreamers by January 19