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Inside Meta, the mood is turning. A companywide AI hackathon ordered by Mark Zuckerberg has landed with a thud among employees, with one staffer openly posting that the company no longer feels like it supports that kind of culture. It is a rare and public signal of internal friction at a company that has staked much of its future on artificial intelligence.
And that friction runs deeper than a single event. A new report from TechCrunch describes Meta's months-old dedicated AI unit, which employs roughly sixty-five hundred people, as a demoralizing environment where engineers feel trapped and undervalued. Sources describe a unit on the verge of revolt — a striking portrait of a workforce that is not bought in, even as leadership doubles down on AI as the company's defining mission.
On a very different trajectory, the BBC has published a detailed look at how Elon Musk's fortune climbed to the trillionaire threshold, breaking down the compounding forces behind a rise that is genuinely without historical precedent. The charts tell a story about the intersection of government contracts, electric vehicles, and the kind of wealth that reshapes what influence even means.
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