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Meta's Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth is calling the company's recent AI reorganization what many employees apparently already thought it was — atrocious. In an internal memo obtained by Wired, Bosworth promised staff more stability, clearer communication, and the return of workplace perks, signaling that the turbulence of that restructuring left real damage to morale inside one of the world's most powerful tech companies.
Meanwhile, Meta is pressing forward with new AI features even as it works to steady itself internally. Facebook's new AI Mode in search pulls from public user posts to generate answers, sitting alongside familiar options like People and Marketplace. It's a reminder that the content you share publicly isn't just social anymore — it's training material and infrastructure for the platform's next chapter.
And in a Silicon Valley courtroom, Elon Musk's legal campaign against OpenAI has hit another wall. A federal judge dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit after finding the company failed to demonstrate that OpenAI improperly obtained any confidential information. It's the second time Musk has come up short against the organization he helped found and later walked away from, leaving the legal strategy looking increasingly thin.
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