… Zuckerberg finally addressed the layoffs in a companywide meeting last month. The message, as some employees understood it, was that he would prefer to keep everyone, but given that AI costs so much to develop, his hands were tied. Employees would find out in May whether they still had a job. …
… He says most of the consumer and creator energy in Horizon Worlds was shifting toward mobile, hence the choice to lean into that. “For people who already have games they like that they're using in Horizon Worlds, you’ll be able to download the Horizon Worlds app and use it in VR for the foreseeable… …
… Years later, in a December 2023 background call with WIRED ahead of the announcement that full, default end-to-end encryption was ready for Messenger and Instagram chat, a Meta employee who had worked for years on the project specifically described a phase from 2016 to early 2019 in which engineers… …