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Chairman / President
Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Susan Li
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Technology, Social Media
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meta.com
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1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
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NASDAQ:META
Year founded
2004
China-Africa relations
War of words: China and the US battle it out for African hearts and minds
Rivalry between two global superpowers spills into the media as East meets West head-on in a clash of narratives to win over the continent.
12 Apr 2026 - 6:00PM
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Artificial intelligence
Alibaba’s Qwen family captures over 50% of global open-source downloads: report
10 Apr 2026 - 10:00AM
Hong Kong society
Legal Tales
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Antisocial media: Meta, Google liable in landmark case for mental health harm
9 Apr 2026 - 10:02AM
Artificial intelligence
As AI race with US intensifies, Alibaba launches 10,000-card computing cluster
Cluster in Shaoguan powered by domestically developed Zhenwu chips latest evidence that China is doubling down on home-grown infrastructure.
8 Apr 2026 - 2:30PM
Artificial intelligence
Chinese AI glasses maker Rokid planning Hong Kong IPO: sources
Listing plan comes as giants Apple, Meta, Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi and Huawei, plus start-ups like Xreal, Rayneo, anticipate market growth.
8 Apr 2026 - 1:54PM
Technology
Opinion
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The danger in the Global South’s pursuit of AI as a magical cure
Rushing in without local R&D, literacy or governance risks leaving countries as testing grounds and passive consumers of foreign tech.
7 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
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Artificial intelligence
Who is Xu Rui, the ex-ByteDance executive tapped by Meta to lead AI hardware?
The veteran Chinese executive will lead a team that develops AI devices at the Facebook parent’s superintelligence unit.
5 Apr 2026 - 4:52PM
Artificial intelligence
Competition or ‘co-opetition’: how is convergence shaping Sino-US AI race?
Speech by CEO of Chinese AI start-up at Nvidia event in US highlights symbiotic nature of tech relationship despite geopolitical tensions.
4 Apr 2026 - 10:09AM
US, Israel war on Iran
Iran says it has ‘will’ to end war, as Trump zigzags on escalation
President Masoud Pezeshkian stresses, however, that Tehran wants guarantees that the conflict with the US and Israel will not flare up again.
1 Apr 2026 - 3:10AM
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US, Israel war on Iran
Iran says will target Apple, Google and Meta if more of its leaders are killed
A list of 18 US tech firms released by the Revolutionary Guards also included Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, Oracle and Palantir.
1 Apr 2026 - 2:10AM
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My Take
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Verdict finds what any parent knows: social media is designed to be addictive
Jurors also decided Meta and YouTube either knew or should have known their products posed a danger to children and did not do enough to warn of the risks.
28 Mar 2026 - 10:49PM
Artificial intelligence
Sycophantic AI chatbots are trying so hard to please, they often give bad advice
In a Stanford-led study, all the AI assistants tested showed sycophancy and often affirmed a user’s questionable thoughts and actions.
28 Mar 2026 - 6:15PM
Social media
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Indonesia bans social media for under 16s
Authorities say the move aims to protect children and young teens against addiction, abuse and exposure to harmful content.
28 Mar 2026 - 8:00AM
United States
Meta and Google liable for damages in landmark US addiction trial
Jury orders US$6 million payout to a young woman, a verdict that could affect thousands of similar cases against tech companies.
26 Mar 2026 - 1:39PM
United States
Trump names CEOs of Meta, Nvidia to 13-member science and tech council
The council, which also includes Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, will weigh in on AI policy and other issues.
25 Mar 2026 - 11:32PM
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Science
China names AI tokens after the yuan. Should US worry for the dollar?
China has officially designated ciyuan as the translation for ‘token’, giving strong economic overtones to what has been a tech term.
25 Mar 2026 - 9:51PM
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Social media
Meta ordered to pay US$375 million in New Mexico child safety trial
Meta said it would challenge the decision after a jury found the social media giant liable for endangering minors.
25 Mar 2026 - 9:26AM
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A humane Chinese AI versus a dog-eat-dog American AI
From killing jobs to killing people, the vision of artificial intelligence supremacy in the United States is truly terrifying.
15 Mar 2026 - 10:30PM
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United States
Meta plans to cut up to 20% of staff to fund AI infrastructure
If Meta settles on the 20 per cent figure, the lay-offs will be its biggest since 21,000 were made redundant in its ‘year of efficiency’.
14 Mar 2026 - 9:50AM
Scams and swindles
150,000 Meta accounts shut down in Southeast Asian scam centre crackdown
Meta has also launched protective tools such as Facebook and WhatsApp alerts for suspicious friend requests and activities.
12 Mar 2026 - 8:17PM
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Gun violence in the US
Perplexity, Meta AIs named ‘least safe’ after helping researchers plot attacks
ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Gemini and others suggested ‘locations to target’ and ‘weapons’ to use to researchers posing as 13-year-old boys.
12 Mar 2026 - 7:49AM
Millionaires and billionaires
Elon Musk on course to become world’s first trillionaire as wealth soars
The Tesla and SpaceX boss cements his status as the world’s wealthiest person after his fortune swelled by roughly US$500 billion over the past 12 months.
11 Mar 2026 - 1:17PM
Indonesia
Indonesia to ban under-16s from ‘high-risk’ social media platforms
Minister Meutya Hafid said the restrictions would protect children from online harms, but experts warned enforcement might prove difficult.
6 Mar 2026 - 9:00PM
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US-China relations
Trump sued in bid to undo approval of TikTok’s US sale
The lawsuit is the first legal challenge to the deal with China’s ByteDance, but does not seek to force a US ban on the short-video platform.
6 Mar 2026 - 7:48AM
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US-China relations
Africa emerges as new arena in US-China competition over artificial intelligence
With a fast-growing digital economy and young population, the continent is becoming a critical front in the global race to shape AI’s future.
5 Mar 2026 - 4:49AM
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China-EU relations
Is Europe, the world’s geopolitical punching bag, ready to hit back?
The EU could land a range of economic blows if it wants to be more than a lightweight, researchers say.
1 Mar 2026 - 10:00PM
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Alibaba
Alibaba to launch new smart glasses powered by Qwen AI assistant at MWC
The coming release marks Alibaba’s second major foray into smart eyewear, following the Quark AI Glasses launched in November 2025.
28 Feb 2026 - 5:16PM
Artificial intelligence
Facebook owner Meta goes ahead with Manus merger despite Beijing probe
Some Manus employees in Singapore move into Meta’s offices and have been given corporate accounts and other access, two sources said.
26 Feb 2026 - 9:30PM
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