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Chairman / President

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO / Managing Director

Mark Zuckerberg

CFO / Finance Director

Susan Li

Industry

Technology, Social Media

Website

meta.com

Headquarters address

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:META

Year founded

2004

OpenAI

OpenAI in talks for share sale at US$500 billion valuation, sources say

If the deal goes ahead, it would elevate OpenAI’s valuation on paper by two-thirds to US$500 billion, making it one of the world’s largest privately held companies.

6 Aug 2025 - 12:18PM

Artificial intelligence

Meta changes course on open-source AI as China pushes ahead with advanced models

5 Aug 2025 - 4:24PM

Apple

Apple loses fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta’s superintelligence team

30 Jul 2025 - 11:20AM

China technology

Opinion | In global fight over tech talent, China goes one up with ecosystem offer

US firms see talent as a moat to be captured and defended but China treats talent as an asset to be distributed across strategic domains.

25 Jul 2025 - 6:45AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

How open-source AI is helping China win hearts and market share

China’s free-for-all AI models, developed by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, present a viable alternative to US closed-source systems.

19 Jul 2025 - 10:00AM

United States

Meta’s Zuckerberg and board members settle lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica

Averting a high-profile trial, the settlement prevents Mark Zuckerberg and other tech luminaries from testifying under oath.

18 Jul 2025 - 2:37PM

TSMC

Chipmaking giant TSMC raises 2025 sales forecast amid AI optimism

TSMC’s move underscores resilient demand for high-end chips from the likes of Nvidia, despite earlier doubts brought by China’s DeepSeek.

17 Jul 2025 - 5:21PM

TSMC has raised its 2025 outlook on robust demand for AI chips. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk unveils xAI’s updated chatbot, Grok 4, after antisemitism controversy

The world’s wealthiest person says Grok 4 is ‘smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously’.

10 Jul 2025 - 4:21PM

Artificial intelligence

Meta’s AI lab scoops up two more Chinese experts from Apple, OpenAI

The new recruits include Pang Ruoming, manager of Apple’s foundations model team, and OpenAI researcher Li Yuanzhi.

8 Jul 2025 - 6:30PM

Science

Meet some of the Chinese AI scientists dominating the global top 100

Half of the leading experts are in China while another 10 are of Chinese origin and working in the US, according to report.

7 Jul 2025 - 4:00PMvideocam

A joint study by a United Nations organisation and Shenzhen-based Dongbi Data has found that the majority of the world’s smartest AI scientists hail from China. Photo: Xinhua

DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s LinkedIn AI job listings show hunger for international Chinese talent

DeepSeek joins a global scramble for AI talent that includes the biggest players, from Meta and OpenAI to ByteDance and Alibaba.

4 Jul 2025 - 7:00PM

DeepSeek has posted a flurry of job listings on LinkedIn over the past week, all in Mandarin. Photo: dpa

Artificial intelligence

Meta’s AI lab is stacked with Chinese talent, drawing attention back home

Seven of 11 publicly listed recruits at the new Meta Superintelligence Labs graduated from prestigious Chinese universities before moving to US.

4 Jul 2025 - 7:00AM

United States

Opinion | Why Silicon Valley signing up to nationalism puts Asia on edge

A mix of opportunism and patriotism drives US Big Tech’s embrace of Washington, raising legitimate worry about the ethical use of lethal AI weapons.

2 Jul 2025 - 8:30PM

Donald Trump

Paramount settles Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit for US$16 million

US president filed a US$10 billion lawsuit against CBS in October over a Kamala Harris interview.

2 Jul 2025 - 2:45PM

US President Donald on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Scale AI CEO stresses start-up’s independence after Meta deal

Scale’s 28-year-old former CEO and co-founder Alexandr Wang left the start-up to lead a new superintelligence unit at Meta.

2 Jul 2025 - 12:05PM

Artificial intelligence

Meta bolsters AI team with top OpenAI talent from China

The recruitment highlights the rising global recognition of Chinese talent in AI development.

30 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

Mergers & Acquisitions

Deal makers hit US$1.8 trillion as they get used to trade chaos

More than half of the 10 largest deals announced in 2025 have involved a private target, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

30 Jun 2025 - 1:42PM

Trade

Carney says trade talks with US resume after Canada rescinded tech tax

On Friday, Donald Trump abruptly cut off trade talks with Canada over what he called a ‘blatant attack’ on the US.

30 Jun 2025 - 8:26PM

US President Donald Trump and Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney at this month’s G7 summit. Photo: AP

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia taps 2 young Chinese AI experts to strengthen research

Zhu Banghua and Jiao Jiantao share photos of themselves with Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia.

29 Jun 2025 - 5:18PM

United States

S&P500, Nasdaq hit record highs on renewed AI bets, rate-cut hopes

A US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran that sparked higher crude prices also boosted market confidence.

27 Jun 2025 - 10:09PMvideocam

Xiaomi

Xiaomi enters ‘smart glasses war’ with first AI-powered eyewear

The tech giant announced its camera-equipped frames during an event on Thursday, leveraging its vast ecosystem in a crowded market.

26 Jun 2025 - 9:32PM

People walk past a Xiaomi store in downtown Beijing on September 8, 2021. Photo: Simon Song

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia climbs to record high to become world’s largest stock again

With Wednesday’s gain, Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s largest stock.

26 Jun 2025 - 12:46PM

Nvidia is the world’s largest stock by market cap. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic wins ruling on use of copyrighted books to train AI

A US judge rules that training AI on copyrighted books is fair use, but the downloading of pirated books is not.

25 Jun 2025 - 11:50AM

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

The company operates more than two dozen data centres worldwide, including two in the US and one in London.

24 Jun 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong-based financial adviser’s name and image exploited again in scams

Professor Chan Yan-chong of City University stresses he never gives advice online, notes that many victims, including some in Singapore, are retirees.

22 Jun 2025 - 3:15PM

Professor Chan Yan-Chong of City University says he never gives financial advice online. Photo: Dickson Lee

DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark

The updated reasoning model, released in May, performed well against leading US models in the real-time WebDev Arena tests.

18 Jun 2025 - 6:03PM

A DeepSeek poster seen during the 2025 Global Developer Conference on February 22 in Shanghai. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

US-China tech war

US pushes Vietnam to decouple from Chinese tech, sources say

Vietnam has been asked ‘to reduce its dependency on Chinese hi-tech’, say one of the people familiar with the discussions.

17 Jun 2025 - 10:18AMvideocam

Hong Kong courts

Meta sues Hong Kong firm over AI app making non-consensual explicit images

US tech giant accuses Joy Timeline HK of promoting ‘nudify’ app, with lawsuit part of Meta’s clampdown on such software.

13 Jun 2025 - 7:27PM

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