Mark Zuckerberg

Money Moves

Overseeing Meta's AI strategy after the failed acquisition

Meta has abandoned its $2 billion purchase of Manus, a Chinese-founded AI startup, after Beijing ordered the deal unwound. Manus raised over $500 million in October, bought back Meta's stake, and now operates independently with Tencent as its lead backer.

Updated 22 hours ago

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Statements he made found misleading by the jury; about 24.4 million violations tied to his statements

A New Mexico jury on Sept. 25 found Facebook liable for deceiving users in a case rooted in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Jurors tallied 43.9 million violations; the state now seeks $35-40 billion in penalties.

Updated Oct 4

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Signed the accord

Six leading AI developers signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29. They pledged internal controls, an internal monitoring team, an independent external auditor, and board review.

Updated Oct 3

New Capabilities

Overseeing Muse's expansion into retail, travel, and glasses after Connect; facing mounting privacy and security scrutiny

Meta released Muse, a personal AI agent, to US users 18 and older on September 8. The agent runs its own browser inside a dedicated cloud computer, sends emails, and books travel; within two weeks it topped the US and Canadian app charts with about 2.8 million downloads.

Updated Sep 30

Money Moves

Desai will report directly to him

Chirantan Desai quit as MongoDB's CEO on Sept 28, less than a year into the job, to run Meta's new enterprise AI platform. MongoDB shares fell about 20%, their worst day in six months.

Updated Sep 29

New Capabilities

Presented the new device lineup at Connect 2026

At Meta's Connect conference on September 23, Zuckerberg unveiled three devices aimed at making its Muse AI assistant a daily habit. They are a keychain-sized handheld, a 100-gram VR headset, and a camera-free pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Updated Sep 24

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Avoided trial testimony via settlement

Teens on Facebook and Instagram will face a two-hour daily usage cap, midnight-to-6-a.m. lockouts, and no push notifications during school hours. Meta agreed to those changes and up to $18 billion in payments to settle lawsuits from 47 US states over teen social media addiction.

Updated Aug 27

New Capabilities

Leading company's all-in AI transformation

Meta shipped Muse Spark, code-named Avocado, in April 2026—its first proprietary foundation model and a ground-up departure from the Llama architecture. The model ranked fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at launch, behind rivals at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but Meta's stock rose about 10% in the five days after release.

Updated Aug 1

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Lobbied Trump to weaken the order

Trump signed a voluntary framework on June 2 asking frontier labs to share their newest models with federal agencies for up to 30 days before release. Within ten days, the government had gone further. A June 12 export control directive forced Anthropic to kill worldwide access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its two newest models, after the government said it had found a jailbreak in the more capable one.

Updated Jun 26

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Pushing glasses as Meta's next computing platform

For five years, every camera-equipped pair of Meta glasses carried someone else's name: Ray-Ban, then Oakley. On June 23, 2026, that changed. Meta began selling eyewear under its own brand, the Meta Adventurer and Fury, starting at $299.

Updated Jun 23

New Capabilities

Betting heavily on proprietary AI after Llama 4 setback

For three years, Meta staked its AI strategy on open-source; the Llama series became the industry's most widely used open-weight model family. On April 8, 2026, Meta released Muse Spark from its new Superintelligence Labs—and kept it closed, a shift for a company that once argued open-source would defeat proprietary rivals the way Linux beat Unix.

Updated May 30

Built World

Leading Meta's AI infrastructure expansion

Meta's Hyperion data center, a $27 billion AI campus rising in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, is on track to become the largest facility of its kind in history. Meta has quietly bought enough land to more than double it. The initial 2,250-acre, 4-million-square-foot build will deliver 2 to 5 gigawatts of computing power, enough to train the next generations of Llama. The financing is the biggest private-credit deal ever executed and the single largest private investment in Louisiana history. In February 2026, Fortune revealed Meta's quiet purchase of another 1,400 adjacent acres, setting up a Phase 2 that would roughly double the campus footprint.

Updated May 26

Money Moves

Q1 2026 earnings: ad business accelerating, AI tools driving 30% engineer productivity gains; maintaining $115-135B capex; committed to building into capacity even in slower demand scenario

The four largest cloud providers—Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon—are tracking toward over $720 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending for 2026, up sharply from $410 billion in 2025. All four reported first-quarter results on April 29, 2026. Microsoft delivered the clearest signal: $77.7 billion in revenue (up 18% year-over-year), Azure cloud growth of 40% (above its 37% guidance), and earnings per share of $4.13 versus analyst estimates of $3.67.

Updated May 26

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Testified at trial February 18; expected to remain under cross-examination

The Los Angeles bellwether trial testing social media liability for addictive design features began jury selection January 27 and opened February 9. It's the first time major tech companies face a jury over claims their products harm children's mental health.

Updated May 23

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Leading Meta's policy shift toward Trump administration

Mark Zuckerberg banned Donald Trump after January 6th, calling the risks of keeping him on Facebook too great. Four years later, on the ban's anniversary, Zuckerberg killed Meta's entire U.S. fact-checking program, amid a Mar-a-Lago visit, a million-dollar inauguration donation, and elevation of a Bush-era Republican to Meta's top policy role.

Updated May 19

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Leading Meta’s consolidation toward fewer, more controllable client surfaces

On December 15, 2025, Meta effectively bricked Messenger's standalone desktop apps: no more logins, no native client. Users got pushed to Messenger.com or Facebook.com.

Updated May 15

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Driving company-wide AI restructuring; has not ruled out further cuts in H2 2026

Meta will cut 8,000 jobs on May 20 and scrap 6,000 open roles it had planned to fill. HR head Janelle Gale framed the layoffs as the price of Meta's $145 billion AI infrastructure bill, with more cuts planned for the second half of 2026.

Updated May 13